#northsouthedtech — Public Fediverse posts

With mElimu teachers can create content offline from their mobile devices and publish to their courses, students can see how they perform against the average #northsouthedtech

Pramil Verma from mElimu presenting on Learn Anywhere, Anytime and Any Device which looks at offline ability, quality of teaching, collaboration, self-evaluation, user behaviour, trends, cash flow of fees #melimu #northsouthedtech

Colleen Dlamini from Future Managers in Cape Town talking about Hands On! Study Guides in paper and ebook for public and private TVET colleges #northsouthedtech #education #distancelearning

DTI priorities to prepare for future industrial digital technologies and 4IR #northsouthedtech #4IR #thedti

Theo Meintjies from DTI says green technologies are creating new jobs quicker than the jobs being lost in the legacy energy sector... Same with automation over last 100 years, where more jobs are created overall #northsouthedtech #thedti

Theo Meintjies from DTI says they have a unit looking at the impact and capacity building required for the 4IR #northsouthedtech #thedti #4IR

Theo Meintjies from DTI Directorate Future Industrial Production & Technologies at #northsouthedtech - SA has high potential but limited production base for the future on global production index - 4IR innovation low on African continent

Well done to Rashid Toefy for running #northsouthedtech conference perfectly on time the whole day - haven't seen this in the 20 years I've been attending conferences especially with politicians

David Maynier WC Minister of Finance and Economic Opportunities says WC has a big priority on skills development in WC and want to create a digital leadership forum and a digital skills accelerator #digitalskills #northsouthedtech

AWS Cloud Academy Course Offerings today... Its free to participate and cost is for getting the certification #northsouthedtech #aws #awsacademy #cloudcomputing

Jenni Jones from Amazon AWS says they have an AWS Academy that helps diverse education institutions to deliver curriculum and hands-on learning to prepare students for industry employment... Amazon creates, manages and maintains this content #northsouthedtech #AWSAcademy

Jenni Jones from Amazon Web Services is involved in building bridges between academia and business and AWS provides a scalable platform for applications to built in a scalable manner and their EC2 was built in Cape Town in 2006 #northsouthedtech #aws

Dr Laurine Platsky from UWC says they have new robotics and digitalisation courses but prospective students can't get bursaries - what are the SETA's doing? #northsouthedtech #SETA #education #UWC

Brian Schreuder says WC Education has an ePortal where 4IR and other services entrepreneurs can make proposals and suggestions to the department #northsouthedtech

Dr Colin Thakur says digitalisation is taking offline documents and putting them online, but digital transformation already has everything digital from start to finish #northsouthedtech

Brian Schreuder says WC now focusing on training teachers on coding, digitizing textbooks, piloting robotics and interactive tech, broadcasting lessons and virtual classrooms and there are even robotics clubs already #northsouthedtech #education

Brian Schreuder says Western Cape went for broadband connectivity to enable access to information for all schools first, rather than first rolling out devices #northsouthedtech

HOD WC Education Brian Schreuder says they have had an eLearnimf vision and Strategy that has been executed for the last 5 years to prepare learners for global citizenship #northsouthedtech #education #westerncapegov

Challenge to TVET colleges to also lead the charge with innovation as innovation is not only in the domain of universities - we all need to innovate #northsouthedtech #innovation #disruption

Way forward for #skillsboostwesterncape is to focus on collaboration together around these themes across sectors, which is more important than having the actual technical knowldge to solve a specific problem #northsouthedtech

Suggested interventions by government are internships, support bridging skills programmes, improve basic education skills #northsouthedtech #skillsboostwesterncape

Dr Craffert says there is big demand for data analytics skills, cloud, AI, coding but also interpersonal skills, cognitive skills, collaboration skills across sectors, and leadership #skillsboostwesterncape #northsouthedtech

Dr Craffert says we are training around Tourism but digital is not included in this curriculum, yet the sector has moved largely to digital = skills gap for digital fluency #northsouthedtech #tourism

Research reports on skills threats and opportunities for Western Cape can be viewed at https://www.skillsboostwesterncape.org/ which will help industry and education to focus on change #skillsboostwesterncape #northsouthedtech

Dr Craffert says ICT is both a threat but also an opportunity - lots of job opportunities in ICT and fin sectors advertised but we need to cultivate skills ahead of demand #northsouthedtech #skillsboostwesterncape

Dr Craffert says they find no projects in pipeline to upskill workers in retail sector who employ 27% of workers in SA who are impacted by change and #4IR - #skillsboostwesterncape can inform plan of action. #northsouthedtech

Premier Alan Winde doing things differently by leading questions to Dr Leona Craffert on #skillsboost research done for #westerncapegov and #cityofcapetown at #northsouthedtech

Doris Viljoen says we need people who understand systems thinking that everything is connected as well as digital fluency and cross-cultural skills - last is a benefit for SA #northsouthedtech

Doris Viljoen at North South Edtech illustrates big future growth of 60+ age group which poses new challenges but also opportunities to serve this demographic in future #northsouthedtech

Doris Viljoen speaking at North South Edtech about leadership for change and imagining ways the future can play out to be prepared #northsouthedtech