{"id":1831,"date":"2017-04-21T13:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T13:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/learning-technology\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:46:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T15:46:54","slug":"phoenix-project-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/LTAcademy\/phoenix-project-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Project – Visiting the University of Namibia"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dewi Parry<\/a><\/p>\n

Recently, Matt Smith (WCPPE, School of Pharmacy), Karl Luke (Learn Plus Project, University IT) and I were very fortunate to be invited to take part on the Phoenix Project<\/a>, a partnership between Cardiff University and the University of Namibia<\/a> (UNAM) to reduce poverty and promote healthier societies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Led by Professor Judith Hall from the School of Medicine, the Phoenix Project is a Cardiff University Flagship Engagement Project<\/a><\/span>. Our team of three would visit UNAM\u2019s Centre for Open, Distance and eLearning<\/a> <\/span>(CODeL), led by Director, Dr Maggy Beukes-Amiss.<\/span><\/p>\n

Background<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Community<\/span><\/p>\n

There were\u00a0several themes that UNAM were keen to explore during our visit, of which\u00a0I\u2019ve highlighted a few, including the use of video for teaching and learning, developing and sharing good practice, and increasing digital capabilities. <\/span><\/p>\n

UNAM have recently adopted the Moodle VLE<\/a>, which enables their students to access course materials at any time, from any device that has internet access. It also supports blended learning<\/a>, which enables a combination of both face to face learning as well as online activities, to\u00a0facilitate anytime\/anyplace learning. There is also great interest in the flipped classroom model<\/a>, where an online activity is introduced prior to a face to face session, freeing up contact time to take a deeper dive into the content. UNAM are particularly interested in the use of video to facilitate this, and have also invested in the Panopto video platform, which enables staff to create learning materials and for student to access them anytime, via the internet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Video in Higher Education<\/b><\/p>\n

\"UNAM<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the main themes of the visit was around the use of video in Higher Education. Being the Learning Technologist for the Panopto rollout and implementation, Karl Luke led these activities. We attended the Panopto training session on the first morning, delivered by Andre Joubert, gave us a great grounding and understanding of the current state of play with Panopto within UNAM.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the first week, the main work around video included:<\/span><\/p>\n