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Author: Sonja Strydom & Miné de Klerk
Published: 03/05/2021
A humanizing approach that considers the lived experiences and unique contexts of students can help facilitate online learning and teaching, write Dr Sonja Strydom (Centre for Learning Technologies) and Miné de Klerk (Division for Teaching and Learning Enhancement) in a recent article for
University World News.
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The COVID-19 pandemic had particularly adverse repercussions for
t to periods of national and international lockdowns, the entire higher education landscape was affected by the unavoidable necessity to re-think ways of educating, researching and working in general.
In South Africa, as in many emerging economies, tertiary institutions have increasingly been adopting digital technologies as mediating tools for learning, teaching and assessment. Therefore, once the pandemic struck, some universities had a form of institutional support infrastructure in place to ena