Proceedings

e/merge 2008 took place over the weeks from Monday 7 July to Friday 18 July 2008. Presentations were grouped into 4 phases: "zooming into the landscape", "facing new challenges", "connecting communities" and "opening worlds". Presentations and discussion of papers in each phase, took place over 3 days and workshops ran for a week.

ISBN Number 978-0-620-42519-3 e/merge 2008 online conference proceedings (http://emerge2008.net)

Peer Reviewed Papers

Peer Review Statement: Except for the case of five keynote addresses and nine invited presentations all proposals for presentations were double blind peer reviewed. Thirteen papers were double blind peer reviewed by at least two reviewers. The conference chairs then prepared a report based on reviewer feedback for each author including a decision to accept, accept with changes or to reject the paper.

Review Panel: The e/merge 2008 review panel members were from 9 universities, one Polytechnic and one College of Technology in 7 countries across 4 continents. Seven members of the review panel are at Professor or Associate Professor level and five others have Doctorates in their fields of specialisation.

Journal Publication: Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz and Tony Carr will co-edit a peer reviewed special issue of The International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology (http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/) based on edited versions of selected papers from e/merge 2008, for publication in early 2009.

Peer reviewed papers are marked below with a star

1. zooming into the landscape

Week I (Monday 7 - Wednesday 9 July 2008)

Keynote: Reaching the potential of ICTs in African Higher Education Institutions: Lessons learned from the AVU Capacity Enhancement Program	Bakary Diallo, African Virtual University
Increasing Access, Reducing Costs	Sandra Aluoch, Bandwidth Consortium
Beyond technology: bandwidth as a strategic asset	Duncan Greaves, Tenet
Good practices necessary for effective implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in secondary schools - a case of Gayaza High School, Uganda	Ronald Ddungu, Gayaza High School Uganda
An instructional design model for e-Learning in schools education	Osman Sadeck, Western Cape Department of Education , South Africa
ICT Access & Use in Rural schools in South Africa: A case of the Mpumalanga Province	Nhlanhla Mlitwa and Joy Nonyane, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Teaching old dogs new tricks - developing lifelong learning skills in mature learners through eLearning	Daniela Gachago, University of Edinburgh, UK
Professional Development of Academic Staff: Learning with ICTs to learn about ICTs in teaching and learning	Markus Mostert and Lynn Quinn, Rhodes University, South Africa
Workshop: Connected Teacher Toolkit	Bronwyn Stuckey, Indiana University and Maggie Verster, ICT4Champions, South Africa

2. facing new challenges

Week I (Wednesday 9 - Friday 11 July 2008)

Keynote: A Social Media Classroom for Student-Generated Learning	Howard Rheingold, Visiting Professor Stanford University and UC Berkely
Keynote: Does Context Sensitive Instructional Design Really Matter?	Ross Perkins, Virginia Tech
Scarce resources: Conflict and sharing in discourse around primary school email use	Nicola Pallitt, University of Cape Town, South Africa
ICT on the margins: Lessons for Ugandan education	Harriet Mutonyi and Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia, Canada
Learning with Computers in Project-Based Learning	Victor Ngobeni, Rotterdam Secondary School, Limpopo, South Africa
Investigating Popular Internet Applications as Supporting E-Learning Technologies for Teaching and Learning with Generation Y	Mici Halse and Brenda Mallinson, Rhodes University
Learning technologies and global aspects in disadvantaged communities in South Africa	Jakob Pedersen, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Issues in Integrating Indigenous Contents and ICT Application in Nigeria: The “i-CLAP” Model Experience	Joseph Azi, A. O. Aboderin and A. A. Nkom, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, M Schweppe, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), New York, USA
Workshop: Connected Teacher Toolkit	Bronwyn Stuckey, Indiana University and Maggie Verster, ICT4Champions, South Africa

3. connecting communities

Week II (Monday 14 - Wednesday 16 July 2008)

Keynote: Digital Learning Ecosystems: Authoring, Collaboration, Immersion and Mobility	Irene Karaguilla Ficheman, University of Sao Paulo Brazil
Wots ur ASLR? Adolescent girls’ use of cellphones in Cape Town	Tanja Bosch, University of Cape Town, South Africa
“Him & Her”: Gender differentials in ICT uptake	Ruth Nsibirano, Makerere University, Uganda
Creating an Online Learning Ecology in Support of Mathematical Literacy Teachers	Maggie Verster, ICT4Champions
Mobile Learning at Makerere University	Paul Muyinda, Makerere University, Uganda
The Virtual Journey in Real Life: exploring the implications of an innovative online degree course.	Sarah Jones, Core Education, United Kingdom
The Global Internet Video Classroom Project	Oliver Lawrence, Elmhurst College, United States
Dynamic Approach in the Application of ICT Models in the provision of Flexible Learning for Distance Education	Sello Sekgwelea, UNISA, South Africa
“TEACHING ‘2.0’”	Shathley Q, University of Cape Town
Wikilessons, wikiquizzes and wikiwebquests in OSS and OER environment	Salvor Gissurardottir, Iceland University of Education
Workshop: Creativity in New Learning - Putting Learning First	Nico Baird, Dreamagineers

4. opening worlds

Week II (Wednesday 16 - Friday 18 July 2008)

Keynote: Conceptual Play and Multiuser Virtual Worlds: Worked Examples from the Quest Atlantis Project	Sasha Barab and Melissa Gresalfi, Indiana University, United States
RAT Online The Belt: En Route to Effective Online Self-Defence Courses	Steven Yates, Knowledge Braid, Australia
Peer to Peer Models in Education	Robin Good, Master New Media, Italy and Michel Bauwens, Foundation for P2P Alternatives
Inkundla yeHlabathi / World Forum	Salim Nakhjavani, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Educators and the Cape Town Open Learning Declaration: Rhetorically reducing distance	Andrew Deacon and Catherine Wynsculley, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Degrees of Openness	Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Eve Gray, OpeningScholarship Project, South Africa
Maximising the potential of OER for sustainable higher education in Africa	Catherine Ngugi, OER Africa
Promoting Technology Use and Classroom Connections	Deborah Tatar, Virginia Tech, United States
The OER Commons Initiative: Transforming Teaching and Learning	Lisa Petrides, OER Commons and Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
Assessing Mobile Technology Usage in a South African Township School	Tino Kreutzer, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Workshop: Creativity in New Learning - Putting Learning First	Nico Baird, Dreamagineers
Quest Atlantis Hands On	Bronwyn Stuckey, Indiana University