Author: Puleng LenkaBula

COVID-19 has accelerated the pace of changes that technology has and will be bringing to higher education and university systems. Where universities were experimenting with open distance and eLearning modes, blended learning and teaching, the lockdown has forced laggards to take up remote learning and teaching. However, this does not mean that we know how university communities will now form when old classroom practices cannot be held to be the only or natural formats for teaching and learning, research and innovation; and engaged scholarship. It is important to think about the work that university communities do. For much of the…