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Stainbank, Lesley June – Cogent Education, 2022
Students at a South African university are exposed to an annual report project which combines elements of four courses as an integrated teaching strategy. The purpose of this paper is to report students' perspectives as to the extent this integrated teaching strategy addressed the learning outcomes for professional skills as required by the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries, Skill Development
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Van Wyk, Barend; Mason, Henry D. – Cogent Education, 2021
This article reports on a study investigating the relationship between university students' self-reported use and application of learning and study strategies and student success indicators (timeframe and student type, namely low-performing, average-performing, or high-performing). Participants were 1,439 engineering students enrolled for academic…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Engineering Education, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Desiree Hamman-Fisher; Venicia McGhie – Cogent Education, 2023
This article reports on how the traditional way of teaching and learning in a third-year undergraduate education, training, and development (ETD) module was transformed at a traditional university in South Africa. Many ETD scholars argue that curricula taught to students in the ETD profession are not relevant to the South African context and do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Decolonization, Situated Learning, Authentic Learning
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Bester Chimbo; Ashley Teedzwi Mutezo; Suné Maré – Cogent Education, 2023
The emergence of COVID-19 in 2020 forced the whole world to a standstill for a while, causing open and distance e-learning institutions like Unisa to adjust all teaching and learning activities and shift to online teaching entirely. This study explores the online learning challenges students in an open and distance e-learning environment in South…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Online Courses, Barriers, COVID-19
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Mankayi, Mandisa; Cheteni, Priviledge – Cogent Education, 2021
A democratic South Africa guarantees equality to all regardless of gender, religion, beliefs, and race. However, leadership status of women in general is still suffering as there is unequal representation in leadership positions between men and women in institutions of higher learning. This phenomenological study sought to understand the female…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Women Administrators, Deans
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Ndebele, Nduduzo C.; Masuku, Mfundo Mandla; Mlambo, Victor H. – Cogent Education, 2022
This study explored the pedagogical dimension of the new NSFAS book allowance funding model focusing on the availability of prescribed textbooks, the perceived impact on teaching and learning, and student's academic achievement. The study applied the human activity system approach (HAS) and the activity systems model within this approach as its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Textbooks