Professor Johannes Cronje, a dean at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology in South Africa, said during an e-learning workshop that technological resources abound that can be used to enhance teaching, but many teachers choose to make use of these resources. He said that rather than order students to put away their mobile phones, students should be told to switch on their phones in class. The professor, who had been using mobile technology to teach five years before his university introduced e-learning, suggested as examples that cell phones can be used to encourage pupils to do their homework, and social networks like Twitter can be used to improve class participation. Overall, he acknowledged that good teaching engages students, and so learning should be more students-centered–a focus that technology enables.Source: Nigerian Tribune