carpentries – Digital & Computational Literacy Workshop

SMU Staff and Students Learn Programming and Data Analysis

From 31 October - 2 November 2018, staff and students at Sefako Makghato Health Sciences University learned about data organisation, data cleaning, analysis, manipulation, and visualisation through a Data Carpentry workshop partially funded through RCCPII. Read More ›

elearning – eLearning

3rd Blended Learning SIG Meeting Planned for November 2018

A year after the first meeting of the ASAUDIT Blended Learning SIG, RCCPII will host the third meeting in Johannesburg in November 2018. This event will build on activities and outcomes from previous meetings and will also include presentations from industry and academia. Read More ›

carpentries – Mentorship

Next Round of Online Training Opens for Carpentry Instructors

Based on the positive feedback received after the previous round of online training for our Carpentry instructors, we decided to run another iteration of the Data Carpentry Ecology Workshop with R to help our instructors build confidence and competence to teach this workshop. Read More ›

outreach – Exploring Opportunities

RCCPII Road Trip to the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal

In the first week of October, the RCCPII Capacity Development Programme will be visiting universities in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu Natal to explore new opportunities for collaboration and support. Read More ›

carpentries – Building Bridges for Digital & Computational Literacy

CarpentryConnect JHB 2018

From 3 - 7 September 2018, lecturers, IT professionals, librarians, and others came together to grow their own digital and computational skills and to learn how to teach others. Read More ›