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365 days of openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Paskevicius, Michael ; Cox, Glenda ; Shaikh, Shihaam ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Lee-Pan, Samantha Date: 2013 Historically, resources such as books, journals, newspapers, audio and video recordings have been fairly well curated in university libraries. However, the same cannot be said for teaching and learning materials, unless they have been included ... Read more c b a
Cobern Street burial ground : investigating the identity and life histories of the underclass of eighteenth century Cape Town

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 1999 The Cobern Street site was shown to be a burial ground only in 1994, when a number of skeletons were disinterred prior to building operations. Attempts to locate documentary records of the burials have been unsuccessful, and we do not know ... Read more
Defining innovation: using soft systems methodology to approach the complexity of innovation in educational technology

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 2010 This paper explores what educational technologists in one South African Institution consider innovation to be. Ten educational technologists in various faculties across the university were interviewed and asked to define and answer questions ... Read more
Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Research and implementation to advance equitable access at UCT

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 07 Nov 2018 Open access enables a freer exchange of how learning and teaching materials are developed and shared. Open access is about opening up access not only culturally and politically, but also to differently abled students. It has huge potential ... Read more
EDN 5510 - Advanced Research Design

Author: Brown, Cheryl ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Ng'ambi, Dick ; Cox, Glenda Date: 01 Jul 2016 Advanced research design is a compulsory module offered to Masters in Education (MEd) in Information Communication Technology (ICT) students embarking on a minor dissertation. The Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the ... Read more c b
Educators' challenges and behavioural intention to adopt open educational resources : the case of Africa University, Zimbabwe

Author: Kandiero, Agripah Date: 2015 A review of the literature confirms that Open Educational Resources (OER) initiatives have created free, openly licenced and high quality educational resources for anyone to use. However, these free, openly licensed and high quality educational ... Read more
Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers' contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a higher education institution

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 2016 Despite the existence of many successful initiatives to promote the sharing and use of Open Educational Resources (OER), sharing and use of OER is not a widely accepted practice in higher education. The reasons for lecturers' choices on whether ... Read more
Factors shaping lecturers’ adoption of OER at three South African universities

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Trotter, Henry Date: 18 Aug 2017 The research presented here focuses on understanding the obstacles, opportunities and practices associated with Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption at three South African universities. It addresses the question: Why do South African ... Read more c b
From Project to Mainstream in a constrained environment: Towards openness at the University of Cape Town

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Doyle, Greg ; Cox, Glenda ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: Apr 2012 Panel presentation from the University of Cape Town at Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. Read more c b a
Institutional Culture and OER Policy: How Structure, Culture, and Agency Mediate OER Policy Potential in South African Universities

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Trotter, Henry Date: 2016 Several scholars and organizations suggest that institutional policy is a key enabling factor for academics to contribute their teaching materials as open educational resources (OER). But given the diversity of institutions comprising the ... Read more c b
The OER Adoption Pyramid

Author: Trotter, Henry ; Cox, Glenda Date: 18 Apr 2016 This Pyramid was developed in the course of a research paper focusing on why South African academics adopt OER or not. We understood that numerous factors shaped their choices, but it became apparent that some factors were "essential" to OER ... Read more c b
An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers’ adoption of OER

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Trotter, Henry Date: 01 Jun 2017 This paper examines three new tools – a framework, an heuristic and a lens – for analysing lecturers’ adoption of OER in higher educational settings. Emerging from research conducted at the universities of Cape Town (UCT), Fort Hare (UFH) and ... Read more c b
Open Education - A Local Issue

Author: Chetty, Rulisha ; Cox, Glenda ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Goodier, Sarah ; Shaikh, Shihaam ; Stent, Stacey Date: Jun 2012 This video shows how open education matters by providing a local perspective on a global issue through three authentic disciplinary examples of multilingual resources at the University of Cape Town. (Please note: Music (used with permission) ... Read more c b
Open Education and the Open Scholarship Agenda, a University of Cape Town Perspective

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Cox, Glenda ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Sep 2014 At the University of Cape Town open education and open scholarship activities and projects have taken place in several guises over the past seven years. They have been loosely connected, driven by champions and enabled by external grant ... Read more c b
Openness in Higher Education - Open Educational Resources

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 04 Nov 2014 On 13 March 2014, OpenUCT and the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) held a workshop day with UCT Libraries on open educational resources (OERs) at UCT. Glenda Cox's presentation covered open educational resources and UCT's ... Read more c b
Position Paper: Open Educational Resources

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Cox, Glenda Date: 2015 This document provides a brief overview of Open Educational Resources (OER) and recommendations for their adoption in higher education institutions set again the current trends internationally. The specific OER affordances are highlighted as ... Read more c b
Ready or Not? OER workshops at 3 South African Universities

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Trotter, Henry Date: 27 Jul 2017 This presentation focuses on workshops conducted at three South African universities on the subject of Open Educational Resources, as part of Sub-project 4 of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project. Read more c b
Researching resistance to open education resource contribution: an activity theory approach

Author: Cox, Glenda Date: 2013 Higher education and associated institutions are beginning to share teaching materials known as Open Educational Resources (OER) or open courseware across the globe. Their success depends largely on the willingness of academics at these ... Read more
ROER4D First Technical Report - June 2013-August 2014

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Cartmill, Tess Date: 27 Aug 2014 This technical report covers the first year of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development project, outlining the progress of the central project network and the twelve sub-projects as they fulfill their research objectives. ... Read more c b
UCT Open Education Week 2015

Author: King, Thomas ; Cox, Glenda ; Makwande, Tinashe ; Kawana, Monde Date: 07 Apr 2015 On 13 March 2015 the Vice Chancellor's Open Educational Resources Adaptation project hosted an event which focused on the Open Educational activities underway at the University of Cape Town. Emeritus Professor Martin Hall provided the keynote ... Read more c b