Prof Alan Rogerson, Prof KP Dzvimbo, Prof MW Maila, Prof EL Yacoubi, Dr VJ Pitsoe and Prof X Chen
The International Conference on Teaching Practice in Education (ICTPED) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in teaching practice in African higher education. The conference took place at St George Hotel from the 6-8 of August 2012 under the theme Towards a globally inclusive teaching practice model in an ODL and E-learning Context.
During the opening the Executive Dean of the College of Education welcomed delegates from all walks of life. He urged them to come up with innovative ways to do teaching practice in order to produce professional teachers who will teach more proficiently in the classrooms to improve the state of education in the country. About 140 delegates from South African and other African universities attended the conference.
Conference delegates braved the coldest day of winter 2012, it even snowed!
One of the keynote speakers Dr Alan Rogerson, founder and coordinator of the Mathematics Education into the Future Project gave a keynote address with a focus on e-learning in Education. Narrating on how to best use a detailed model for highly interactive e-learning he said “Can we imagine a time in the not too distant future where a teacher in an e-learning school, living in Europe, opens up his laptop or mobile phone and receives email work from several students enrolled in the same class, but who live in New Zealand, the USA and Holland. He assesses their work and replies to each student – while all of their messages and all of his replies go immediately to all members of the class all over the world so they can all see what the others are doing and thinking” He concluded that UNISA with its extensive experience in distance education is an important stakeholder in the e-learning environment.
Prof MW Maila and Mrs Mary Atieno Agumba Ooko who shared her experience with how teaching practise works in Kenya
The chairperson of the organizing committee and CEDU’s Head of Teaching Practice Unit Prof MW Maila said “The conference was a resounding success. For the first time we managed to have leading academics on this continent and from other parts of the world, all converge under one roof to discuss how we can best do teaching practice as an important aspect of teacher education”.
 ICTPED conference was well attended |
 Conference delegates listening attentively |
Story submitted by Achieve Ubisi
