{"id":119,"date":"2012-05-25T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smitte.co.za\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-06-21T10:50:30","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T08:50:30","slug":"adoption-strategies-ela-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Adoption Strategies eLA &#8211; 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do we get academics to adopt technology in their teaching. It is clear that a large majority of older acdemics in Higher Education are so stuck in the trenches of talk-and-chalk methodologies of information transfer that they clearly fail to see the bigger picture.<\/p>\n<p>Technology can add value to that old Victorian system &#8211; end of story. In stead of trying to argue about that just look at the score board. Whan you introduce the correct technology pass rates improve.<\/p>\n<p>What about Prof Mitra showed us that in his Hole in the Wall project children can teach themselves with the use of the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>What we have to do is to look at an integrated e-learning option where Organisation, Information Technology and Pedagogy should blend and not become over-powering.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smitte.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Emerging-tech-strategies.doc\">Emerging technology adoption strategies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smitte.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/eLA_2012_I-Smit.pptx\">Slideshow Presentation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do we get academics to adopt technology in their teaching. It is clear that a large majority of older acdemics in Higher Education are so stuck in the trenches of talk-and-chalk methodologies of information transfer that they clearly fail to see the bigger picture. Technology can add value to that old Victorian system &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smitte.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}