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Cape Town, Wc, Za

South Africa

South Africa

• Manage cohorts of Learning Designers, segmented by subject area.• Conduct quality assurance on the work of Learning Designers across a variety of subjects and qualifications.• Develop online delivery solutions and strategies by conducting planning and analysis per subject area.• Analyse the affordances of the learning management system (LMS) and emerging technologies to make design decisions.• Create course outlines, guidelines, templates, and policies.• Develop online delivery formats that integrate content from textbooks, journals, web resources, and other similar educational resources.• Create continuous assessment strategies targeted at supporting students as they approach their summative exams.• Produce targeted content in a wide variety of media, working with subject matter experts and production specialists.• Collaborate with the head of learning design to develop innovative approaches to online learning.• Collaborate with stakeholders and project management to ensure deadlines are met and project communication occurs efficiently and effectively.• Implement evaluation strategies to review the effectiveness of a design strategy, and review content periodically to maintain continuous improvement policies.• Develop and implement improvements to departmental processes.• Facilitate capacity development workshops to promote a culture of learning among learning designers.• Enhance the ability of learning designers to connect learning design and technology.• Recruit and onboard new employees.

South Africa

• Ensure the subject contents meet the policy statements and examination standards.• Identify appropriate design solutions and perform planning and analysis for the subject area.• Creating a learning program based on the available features of the learning management system and technologies.• Adapt contents from textbooks to online learning.• Work with production specialists to produce content in a variety of media to support or complement the curriculum.• Design and create assessments to prepare students for summative assessments.• Collaborate and communicate with relevant stakeholders to meet timelines and deadlines of the project.• Review and evaluate contents at intervals to ensure continuous improvement on the content and learning experience.• Track tasks and assets that are performed by other stakeholders, such as graphics and uploading of assets.• Perform peer reviews in various subjects and qualifications.• Contribute to improving departmental processes.

Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa

• Utilise instructional theory to design videos, quizzes and interactions to promote the acquisition of and assessment of knowledge.• Apply instructional design principles to meet learning outcomes.• Visualize instructional graphics, the user interface and the finished product.• Analyse and apply the latest trends, solutions and best practices in learning technologies and instructional design.• Provide exercises and activities that enhance the learning process.• Create supporting material/media (audio, video, simulations, role plays, games etc.)• Devise modes of assessment, such as tests or quizzes, to measure the effectiveness of the online course.• Maintain project documentation and course folders.• Manage deadlines and deliverables effectively to meet operational requirements.• Find the latest solutions and present findings for review and aid in implementation

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

• Lecturing in the following subjects: o Management Information Systems o Internet Fundamentals o Help Desk o Digital Citizenship o Introduction to Personal Computing• Assist in lecturer development and support processes and procedures.• Leading and managing academic development and support for the specific programme and its students. • Tracking student success and implementing support interventions where required• Marking of assessments and feedback to students in subjects lectured• Engaging in activities for professional development both in subject discipline and teaching practice.• Adapting from blended learning to fully online learning due to COVID-19 pandemic: o Use Blackboard collaborate and Blackboard tools such as discussion groups, forums, blog, wikis and quizzes to engage students in their online learning. o Creating interactive slide shows o Record lecturer sessions and embed videos on LMS. o Using the retention center to monitor and track student engagement

Mowbray, Cape Town

• Teaching EMS (CAT) and Curriculum Studies in the SP & FET Department• Curriculum development and other learning material• Academic development and administration• Assessment and quality assurance

Co-Project Leader and Digital Content Administration (Blackboard, Pearson - MyITLab, Certiport & CompAssess)● Co-project leader for digital learning platforms:○ Identify the learners and department requirements for online courses.○ Identify the best digital learning platform regarding department, learners and infrastructure requirements.○ Trial run of digital platforms○ Writing reports based on findings in trial run and lecturers and students’ feedback○ Offer in-house training and support to staff on all campuses ○ Support the ICT staff in the implementation of the systems’ installation in the labs.○ Offer solutions for troubleshooting (both technical and administrative) ● Digital Content Administration:o Administer digital platform structure and content (Blackboard, Pearson - MyITLab).o Construct online assessments containing simulation, multiple choice, true or false, essay, etc. type of questions.o Extract reports from Blackboard, MyITLab, CompAssess and Certiport to prepare throughput and success rate reports of subjectso Administer online assessment profiles and access for all subjectso Examiner/Moderator for online assessments of subjects Subject Manager for Computer Skills and Database Management:• Instructional content creator for online courses in terms of slides, activities, exercises, notes, videos, assessments, etc.● Moderator of assessment papers (manually and online)● Extract reports from Blackboard and the University’s Student Information System (ITS) ● Prepare subjects’ statistics (throughput- and success rate reports)● Compute final marks of students across different campuses (ITS system)● Deal with queries● Offer support and guidance.Teaching and Learning in the subject matter of Computer Skills, Database Management and Microsoft Office software.• Make use of blended learning approach. • Marking and capturing results on Student Information System (ITS). • Monitor student progress, achievements and attendance.

Schedule and run two to three facilitation sessions each week.Provide leadership and support for peers.

• General office administration• Packaging• Dispatching• Maintaining Stores• Placing Orders• Typing of Invoice

London, United Kingdom

• Answering of Phone• Picking up Mail• Distributing of all correspondence• Franking and sorting of post• Relieving of Receptionists• Typing of letters• Archiving of documents• Providing tea and coffee for meetings• Ordering of stationary and coffee machine products• Faxing• Filing• Binding/Laminating• Photocopying

London, United Kingdom

• Photocopying• Answering of phone• Filing• Dealing with student queries• Sorting the post• Data entry (Hemis)• Faxing• E-mailing• Sorting of exam scripts• Ordering stationary

Master Of Education - Med, Computer Integrated Educati

Master'S Degree (Incomplete), Education

Bachelor Of Science Honours, Computing

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Information Technology