Speaker
Prof. Eunice Ndeto Ivala
Prof. Eunice Ndeto Ivala

Director: Centre for Innovative Educational Technology, CPUT

Prof. Eunice Ndeto Ivala is an Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Innovative Educational Technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) located in Cape Town, South Africa. Her research focus is on information and communication technology (ICT)– mediated teaching and learning in developing contexts. She has published/ co-published more than 89 research papers and co-edited/edited two conference proceedings and four books. Currently, she is a team member in an Erasmus + project funded by European Union aimed at the development of digital and transferable competencies so that higher education educators can become more resilient, increase their creativity and efficiency and acquire career adaptive competencies. In 2018, she won an award for excellence in e-learning from Global Learn Tech for her research impact in changing educational and individuals’ practices. Recently, she was a team member in an international digital storytelling project dealing with foreign youth experiences abroad, which was supported by the European Union; a team leader of the ICT curriculum appraisal of the National Senior Certificate for Adults and an institutional coordinator for the Council for Higher Education quality enhancement project in the area of learning environments. She was also a team member in a National Research Fund–British Council Workshop Links project on widening access, success and employability, a collaboration between CPUT and the University of East London, UK. She holds a B.Ed Honours degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya; a MEd degree in Computer-based Education from the University of Natal, Durban, South Africa; and a PhD in Culture, Communication and Media Studies from the University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.