Projects
Western Cape Education Department - Khanya
Since 2004 Edunova has been working in partnership
with Khanya to ensure that all of our methodologies are
aligned with the Education Department and that we do not
duplicate existing effort. In 2005 and 2006 Edunova has
delivered training and facilitation programmes in seven
schools in the Western Cape.
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The Shuttleworth Foundation's tuXlab programme
Edunova was funded by The Shuttleworth Foundation in
2005 to develop and run a 10 week training course in a
cluster of five of its Open Source computer labs, known
as tuXlabs. We continue to act as a critical friend and
offer support to the tuXlab team.
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TSiBA Education
Edunova is working with TSiBA Education, Cape Town's most recently established non-profit, free-to-student university modelled on the phenomenon of CIDA City Campus in Gauteng. Using its links in the UK, Edunova has secured the donation of a world benchmark Management Information System from a UK-based software developer. Edunova is working alongside the TSiBA staff to implement the system in a way that ensures its effective use and adoption. While the MIS is the short term focus, Edunova is also looking beyond to the ways in which ICT could be used to deliver and enhance learning outcomes at the university, for example, through the use of a Virtual Learning Environment combined with single-unit satellite LearningHubs in the areas where the students live.
Prudential's funding of a programme at Vukani Primary School
Edunova
is a trusted partner of Prudential South Africa which
has funded the implementation of an Open Source computer lab at Vukani Primary School in Philippi, Cape Town where a previous corporate donation of obsolete computers was seeing very low levels of adoption. On a stable and standardised Linux platform, Edunova is now working in partnership with Khanya, the principal and
the ICT committee to provide appropriate training to the school's thirty staff to embed ICT skills and to integrate ICT into curriculum delivery. It is mentoring ICT Champions in each grade and working with the committee to ensure the sustainability of the ICT learning centre and to explore new ways in which it can be used to promote learning in the community.
With the recent sponsorship of a broadband connection
from a junior school in the UK, the educators are
embarking on two international online curriculum
programmes with schools in the UK and Australia.
UK track record
Edunova has deep and relevant experience around the use of ICT in education. In the UK the company has worked for the past four years on a whole school transformation agenda and has been at the forefront of the work done on the Department for Educations and Skills Academies programme, particularly around the use of ICT in these Academies. More details on the work done in the UK can be found at
www.edunova.co.uk
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