CPD


Continuous professional development
  • Design Thinking in Practice, 3-day workshop offered by the UCT d.school, 21-23 of January 2020
  • How to talk with your kids about race and racism, 5-week online course offered by the Kopanya Institute, November 2019.
  • Time to Think Foundation Course, offered by Maryse Barak, 18th and 19th of October 2019,  Cape Town.
  • Design Thinking and Biomimicry Masterclass,  offered by the Cambridge Institute for Sustanaible Leadership, 11th of October 2019, Cape Town
  • HERS-SA Academy, 15th-19th of September 2019, Cape Town
  • Intercultural Supervision (2 days), offered by the University of Stellenbosch, STIAS, August 2018
  • Vicarious trauma and resilience, offered by the Adonis Musati Centre (1 day), August 2018
  • The ethics of learning analytics (1 day), offered by CIET, July 2018
  • Thriving in the workplace in the face of historical woundedness, African Constellations workshop (1 day, May 2018)
  • Creating the Leading Edge – regional management development programme offered by CHEC (7 modules), April - September 2018: Group Dynamics (2 days, March 2018), The State of South African Higher Education (1 day, April 2018), Project Management (3 days, June 2018), completed in 2018.
  • Analytics4Learn (3 days), March 2018
  • Performance Management Leadership Training (3 days), September 2017
  • Analytics4Learn (3 days), April 2017
  • ECP writing retreat organized by Fundani CPUT (3 days), November 2016
  • NRF project writing retreat (5 days), November 2015
  • Participation in EdX MOOC: U.Lab: Transforming Business, Society, and Self, September - October 2015
  • Study visit at MIT focusing on Open Education Resources (3 days), September 2015
  • Design Thinking workshop (1 day), September 2015
  • Sketchnote workshop (2 hours), UCT, August 2015
  • Authentic assessment and evaluation, workshop facilitated by Tom Reeves, CPUT, February 2014
  • Writing retreat organised for RITAL presenters, CPUT (3 days, Feb 2014)
  • Writing retreat as part of the social justice project funded by Prof. Viv Bozalek, UWC (2 days, Nov 2013)
  • The 7Cs of Instructional Design, Heltasa pre-conference workshop facilitated by Grainne Connole (1 day, Nov 2013)
  • Difficult Dialogues, offered by Dr Van Jaarsveldt, UFS, 28 November 2013
  • Writing NRF proposals (1 day, Nov 2013), CPUT
  • Google in Education summit (2 days, Sept 2013), Parklands 
  • Developing 1 minute videos facilitated by MIMA Media (2 days, June 2013), CPUT
  • Communities of Practice – practice and research (1 day, May 2013), facilitated by Lave and Wenger, UCT.
  • Critical pedagogy in Education (1 day, April 2013), workshop facilitated by Prof. Rajendra Chetty, CPUT. 
  • Introducing  the community multimedia toolkit (1 day, March 2013), UCT Business School.
  • Writing for publication workshop (5 days, March 2013), facilitated by Prof Enid Schatz and Prof Rebecca Dingo from the University of University of Missouri, organized by Prof Bozalek from UWC.
  • Writing retreat organized by the ‘Emerging technologies in HE’ NRF project (4 days, October 2012)
  • Critical pedagogy for Education, workshop facilitated by Prof. Rajendra Chetty (2 days, August 2012)
  • Feminist facilitation techniques, workshop organized by UWC (1 day, May 2012)
  • Presentation on the development of social media guidelines (0.5 day, Jan 2012)
  • Virtual world workshop by Prof Denise Wood from UNISA, organized by UWC (3 days, Jan 2012)
  • Digital Storytelling Train-The-Trainer Workshop (4 days, August 2011) facilitated by Andre Daniels from UWC
  • Writing retreat Montfleur (2 days, June 2012)
  • CHEC short course on Citizenship, Social Inclusion and Difference, (Feb-March 2012)
  • SPSS training (2 days, May 2011)
  • Blackboard training (March 2010, 3 days)


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