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Topic

Forward together in Learning and Teaching at Stellenbosch University: Where to next?

Presenter

Prof Deresh Ramjugernath

Short biography

Prof Deresh Ramjugernath is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Learning and Teaching at Stellenbosch University. Previously, he served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), prior to which he served as the Pro Vice-Chancellor: Innovation, Commercialisation and Entrepreneurship, also at UKZN. He was appointed full professor of Chemical Engineering at the age of 31 and has to date published and co-published more than 350 peer-reviewed journal papers and over 345 national and international conference papers. He has also successfully graduated over 90 Masters and 40 PhD students and supervised and co-supervised over 22 post-doctoral fellows.

Blurb

From ERTLA to ARTLA; from blended learning support to hybrid learning projects; from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to the Scholarship of Educational Leadership: Where are we heading to next and how will we get there?

Prof Ramjugernath shares his insights and vision for learning and teaching at Stellenbosch University, and contemplates the question: Where to next?

How do we use our institutional mechanisms, such as programme review and renewal and the SOTL conference to meaningfully enhance the quality of our students' learning experience? How do we ride the next technological waves, without drowning in increased workload or being drawn into a whirlpool of pandemic-fuelled despair?

In the year where we have decided to grapple with issues of assessment, and with an institutional audit looming, how do we critically evaluate ourselves and care-fully reflect on where we should be going? How do we plan when a tidal wave of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity seems ready to break?

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