Optimising learning technologies for educator training in higher education

Volume editor

Christo van der Westhuizen

Volume editor

Geoffrey Lautenbach

Volume editor

Maglin Moodley

Synopsis

This volume explores how learning technologies can be optimised for teacher training in higher education. The chapters present empirical and conceptual research on learning technologies, online learning, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, flipped classrooms, learning management systems and communities of inquiry, with a focus on developing 21st-century skills and innovative pedagogical practices.

Chapters

Chapter 1
Design principles for student engagement and success in face-to-face, online and blended modes of a single undergraduate module

Christo van der Westhuizen
Chapter 2
Facilitating a dialogic approach in Moodle discussion forums to optimise educator training in higher education

Caryn Naudé, Geoffrey Lautenbach
Chapter 3
Pre-service mathematics educators’ experiences of a blended learning, flipped classroom approach

Renuka Rau-Pillay, Roxanne Bailey
Chapter 4
Rethinking learning design for an online educator training methodology module

Menoli Gounden, Christo van der Westhuizen
Chapter 5
Using the community of inquiry framework to evaluate a learning management system

Letshego Glorian Harejane, Roxanne Bailey, Christo van der Westhuizen
Chapter 6
Virtual reality for authentic teaching: Pre-service Life Sciences educators’ experiences

Taelo Jonathan Mathuloe, Maglin Moodley, Patrick Thabo Makhubalo
Chapter 7
Lecturers’ perceptions of the use of ChatGPT to promote students’ 21st-century skills at a private higher education institution

Marizanne Grundlingh, Maglin Moodley

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