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Posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 by Mark Horner
We don’t prescribe groups, we don’t force communities and we let workgroups find their own organising principle. What we promise is to support any groups/communities that do come out of our training. This makes it a little harder to ensure that a certain number of groups come out of any particular training exercise but should mean that they are less reliant on us and more sustainable.
Posted on Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 by Mark Horner
The Siyavula training team had a follow-up meeting the Wednesday following our first workshop in Cape Town in which we ran through the details of the weekend and tried to determine what worked and what we could do better.
Our second assignment was a workshop in Kwa-Zulu Natal (KZN) at the Protea Hotel Karridene where we [...]
Posted on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by Mark Horner
Yesterday we had the pleasure of Titilayo Seriki‘s company for a lunch-time discussion. She runs a consulting firm, along with Peter Heinecke, called Cielarko. The reason I invited her to come and chat to us was that I wanted to hear more about her PhD thesis results and how they might affect Siyavula.
The title of [...]
Posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 by Mark Horner
I just wanted to capture a concern and some thoughts around it. Today I heard it said in a meeting that available OERs are of low quality, irrespective of their cost. This was used to justify the statement that we should not expect OERs to be cheap, we should focus on their quality even if [...]