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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:18pt;color:rgb(227,108,10)" lang="EN-US">Call for Articles: Special Issue of
<i>Progressio, South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice</i></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Correspondence should be addressed to:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Special Issue Editors: Dr Bruce Nduna and Hentie Wilson</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">University of South Africa</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P O Box 392</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">UNISA
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<p class="MsoNormal">0003
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<p class="MsoNormal">South Africa </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Contact details: Dr Bruce Nduna - <a href="tel:%2B27%2011%C2%A0471%202234" value="+27114712234" target="_blank">+27 11 471 2234</a> <a href="mailto:ndunabv@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">
ndunabv@unisa.ac.za</a> <br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">This special issue of <b><i>Progressio, South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice</i></b>
is dedicated to showcase, and engage with innovative research in the
teaching of the Natural Sciences,
Engineering and Technology in open, distance and e-learning (ODeL)
environments. We invite practitioners and researchers in the fields of
ODeL and blended learning contexts within in the scope of the Natural
Sciences, Engineering and Technology to submit articles
for consideration. This special issue will include articles from the
following disciplinary backgrounds:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">• Agriculture, Environmental and Life Sciences</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">• Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Statistics and Computing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">• Civil, Chemical, Electrical, Mechanical, Industrial and Mining Engineering</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Many of the current
opportunities and challenges facing international higher education
institutions impact directly on the teaching of the Natural Sciences,
Engineering and Technology. T</span><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">he
higher education sector has to deal with changes in student profiles,
funding regimes, a dramatic increase in the privatisation and
internationalisation of higher education, and increasing demand for
evidence of the effectiveness and appropriateness of teaching
and learning. There is also evidence of the “unbundling” of higher
education with curriculum development, course delivery, teaching,
student support, assessment and accreditation being designed and often
delivered by different providers. This fragmentation
of different elements of higher education is not necessarily negative,
but it does change our assumptions and beliefs about knowledge
production and knowledge dissemination, it questions the traditional
roles of faculty, interrogates intellectual property
regimes and challenges organisational structures and funding
hierarchies. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Curriculum
development and tuition in ODeL and blended learning contexts also pose
some very specific challenges such as students
<i>and</i> teachers’ under-preparedness to find a ‘middle ground’ where
threshold concepts in the Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology
can be effectively explored taking into account students’ academic and
personal backgrounds and access to resources,
epistemological and ontological differences, departmental and
institutional capacities, employer requirements and the affordances of a
variety of technologies.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB">The broad theme for this special issue of Progressio is therefore
<b>“Opportunities and challenges in the teaching of the Natural
Sciences, Engineering and Technology in open, distance, e-learning and
blended learning environments.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Submitted articles
can be conceptual or empirical, focus on general issues in teaching and
learning in the broad scope of the teaching of the Natural Sciences,
Engineering and Technology or focus on undergraduate
or postgraduate teaching. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12pt">Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice</span></i></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> is a fully accredited journal that provides an opportunity for researchers and
practitioners in open, distance and e-learning to publish their articles. As the name suggests,
<b><i>Progressio’s</i></b> focus is on research on the phenomenon and
practice of open, distance and e-learning. All articles are refereed by
experts in the field of open, distance and e-learning. The journal has
an international editorial board comprising
of scholars and practitioners in open, distance and e-learning, and
enjoys the support of the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) and the
National Association of Distance Education Organisations of South Africa
(NADEOSA).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Articles published in Progressio: South African Journal for Open and Distance Learning Practice are indexed by Sabinet.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><h1 style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(227,108,10)" lang="EN-US">NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS</span></h1>
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<h1><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors should submit a letter requesting review,
confirming that their article is original work, does not violate any
contractual agreement and has not been published or is not under
consideration for publication elsewhere. A copyright
agreement must also be signed and returned to the journal editor.</p>
<h1><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-AU">Presentation</span></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal">Authors should submit their contributions as an electronic file (MS Word format). The full
<b>title</b> of the article should be supplied on the <b>title page</b>. The article should be
<b>typed</b> in Times New Roman in 11-point font size, in double-spacing
(including all notes and references), on one side of the paper only.
The
<b>length</b> of an article should be between <b>5 000</b> and <b>6 000</b> words. Do not attempt
<b>layout</b>. All <b>notes</b> should be kept to a minimum and appear at the end of the article before the
<b>list of references</b>. <b>Figures and tables</b> should not be
embedded in the text, but be saved as separate files at the end of each
article with their position clearly marked in the text. Indicate clearly
in which format they were generated. Please supply
typed <b>captions including sources and acknowledgements</b>. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A structured <b>abstract</b> of 200 words in
length, covering the main points and statement of objective or problem,
method, results and conclusions, should accompany an article plus a list
of at least six
<b>keywords</b> for abstracting and indexing services. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">All articles will be critically blind-reviewed by at least <b>
two</b> referees.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please supply short biographical <b>details of each author</b>
on the title page, as well as the name, mailing address, telephone and
facsimile numbers, e-mail address, and affiliation and country of each
corresponding author at the time
of the work.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-AU">WHERE TO SEND ARTICLES </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Bruce Nduna - <a href="tel:%2B27%2011%C2%A0471%202234" value="+27114712234" target="_blank">+27 11 471 2234</a> <a href="mailto:ndunabv@unisa.ac.za" target="_blank">
ndunabv@unisa.ac.za</a> </p>
<h2><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">REFERENCE STYLE</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">The <i>Chicago manual of style</i> <b>author–date system</b>
is used, that is, references are cited in the text by the author(s)
name(s), the year of publication and the page number(s) in brackets, for
example, (Apollonia 1973, 370), as
a key to the full list of all references that appears at the end of the
article. The
<b>list of references</b> should include every work cited in the text.
Ensure that dates, spelling and titles used in the text are accurate and
consistent with those listed in the references.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Examples:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72pt"><b>In text:</b>
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:72pt">(Chambers 1983, 110--112)
<b>book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt">(Schellinger, Hudson and Rijsberman 1998)
<b>three-author book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Secher et al. 1996, 243) (Note: first write out in full followed by et al.:
<i>et al.</i> is not italicised) <b>multiple-author book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Michelangelo 1999, 122--134) <b>a translated book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(UNDP 2003, 14) <b>organisation as author</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Anon. 1547) <b>anonymous author</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Garcia 1987, vol. 2) <b>book volume</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Johnson 1979, sec. 24) <b>section</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Wiens 1983, 357--359) <b>chapter in a multi-author book</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Weber, Burlet and Abel 1928)<b> edition</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Bhabha and Viswananthan 2002, 45) <b>journal</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Wright 1968--1978, 2:241)<b> multivolume work</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Barnes 1998, 2:244--255, 3:29) <b>journal volume number with page reference</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Tulchin and Garland 2000) <b>series</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(H. J. Brody, pers. comm.) <b>personal communication</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Kurland and Lerner 2000, chap. 9, doc. 3) <b>part of a document</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Fischer and Siple 1990, 212n3) <b>note</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(Mampuru 2003, 14) <b>unpublished thesis</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">(<i>Sowetan</i> July) <b>newspaper article.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36pt"><b> </b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>In reference list:</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm"><span lang="IT">Anon. 1547.
<i>Stanze in lode della donna brutta.</i> </span>Florence.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Bhabha H. and G. Viswananthan. 2002. Border crossings in education.
<i>Cultural Critique</i> 35 (2):34--48.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Chambers, R. ed. 1983.
<i>Rural development: Putting the last first</i>. London: Longman.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Ezedu, H. 2001. Cross-cultural learning. In
<i>Co-operation in African Education</i>, ed. S. Dlamini, 134--138. Pretoria: UNISA Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Kurland, P. B. and L. Lerner, eds. 2000. The founder’s constitution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
<a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/" target="_blank">http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/</a> (accessed 2 April 2004).
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Mampuru, E. 2003. A sociological study of children’s games. M.Ed. thesis. Pretoria: University of South Africa.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Michelangelo, 1999.
<i>The complete poems of Michelangelo</i>. Trans. J. F. Nims. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Schellinger, P., C. Hudson and M. Rijsberman, eds. 1998.
<i>Encyclopedia of the novel</i>. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm"><span lang="DE">Secher, J. A., S. M. Pfaffilin, F. L. Denmark, A. Griffen and S. J. Blumenthal, eds. 1996.
</span><i>Women and mental health</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Sturkin, M. 1997.
<i>Tangled memories</i>. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Tulchin, J. S. and A. M. Garland, eds. 2000.
<i>Social development in Latin America: The politics of reform</i>. Woodrow Wilson Center Current Studies on Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">UNDP <i>see</i> United Nations Development Programme.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">United Nations Development Programme. 2003.
<i>The economic cost of AIDS</i>. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Weber, M. H., M. de Burlet and O. Abel. 1928.
<i><span lang="DE">Die Saugetiere.</span></i><span lang="DE"> 2nd ed. 2 vols. </span>
Jena: Gustav Fischer.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1cm">Wiens, J. A. 1983. Avian ecology: An iconoclastic view. In
<i>Perspectives in ornithology</i>, ed. A. H. Brush and G. A. Clark Jr, 355–403. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none">Wright, S. 1968--1978. Evolution and the genetics of populations. 4 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"> </p>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Groete / Sincerely<br>Jan H. Kroeze
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