Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams@uct.ac.za / tel: +27 21 650 5030

Cheryl is an Associate Professor of information communication technologies (ICT) in education. She is the co-ordinator of the Mellon Scholarship programme, which sponsors colleagues from higher education institutions in Africa to attend a post graduate programme in ICTs in Education at UCT. Cheryl is also one of the lecturers on the MEd ICT in Education programme. She and CET learning designer, Andrew Deacon, teach the module Online Learning Design during which students produce an authentic online learning intervention to support teaching and learning in their own institutions. Cheryl and CET colleague, Dick Ngambi, teach the module Research Design for ICT in Education. Cheryl and Dick also taught the Learning, Cognition and Technology module in 2011.

In addition to her existing commitments, she was the project director for the open educational resources project (OER) at UCT and was one of the lead researchers in the Opening Scholarship project, both sponsored by the Shuttleworth Foundation. She has dedicated herself to supervising PhD and MEd students whilst also hosting the research seminar series, Research@CET. Cheryl's research interests lie in the areas of Online Learning Design, Open Educational Resources, and electronic portfolios.

If Cheryl ever had to change careers, she would love to be a florist as she adores flowers.

Other Information

If you’re curious about the ICT in Education programme: http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/masters

Find out more about Cheryl’s passion by having a look at the OER ICT Project: http://www.cet.uct.ac.za/projects#OER