Author:Ford, M; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2014ICT for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) is a large-scale pilot that is testing the use of tablets in 26 deep rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The aim is to develop a replicable framework that will enable ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Van Greunen, D; Herselman, Martha EDate:May 2010The interdisciplinary field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), having barely matured past its adolescent shoes, now faces the challenge of meaningfully integrating Mobile Human Computer Interaction (MHCI). MHCI however, when viewed as an ...Read more
Author:Ford, M; Leinonen, TDate:Mar 2009MobilED is a South African initiative aimed at designing teaching and learning environments that are meaningfully enhanced with mobile technologies and services. The deliverables are the development of a set of scenarios and guidelines on how ...Read more
Author:Van Den Berg, M; Botha, Adèle; Krause, C; Tolmay, JP; Van Zyl, PDate:Oct 2008MobilED started as an international collaborative project to facilitate and support teaching and learning through the creation and support of learning environments using mobile technology. This paper provides an overview of the theoretical ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Traxler, J; Ford, MDate:Oct 2008Designing, implementing and evaluating educational technology for a developmental project in mobile learning is largely unchartered territory. This paper reflects on the process, the role-players, their contributions and the framework that ...Read more
Author:Van Den Berg, M; Aucamp, FNDate:May 2007MobilED is an Open source project that aims to develop pedagogically appropriate mobile technology services to enhance formal and informal learning and teaching environments. A first phase of the platform and services were developed and piloted ...Read more
Author:Marais, LDate:Oct 2015Mobile technology and mobile development platforms provide a rich ecosystem within which language and speech related technologies can be developed. Specifically, text-to-speech (TTS) technology provides the opportunity for personalised and ...Read more
Author:Botha, Adèle; Cronje, JC; Ford, MDate:May 2007The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual framework for the integration and evaluation of mobile technology in educational settings. Research in the development of platforms and initiatives for and in education often displays ...Read more
Author:Foko, Thato EDate:Jun 2009Failure at school because children from the low socio-economic background have no access to information and communication technologies motivated this study. The realisation that even the poorest of the poor South Africans have access to mobile ...Read more
Author:Makama, NR; Van Staden, CJ; Botha, AdèleDate:Feb 2022The use of mobile technologies at schools in teaching and learning is emerging, enabling teaching and learning to happen anywhere anytime. CSIR implemented a project in resource-constrained environments schools specifically in Gauteng, Limpopo ...Read more