Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Oct 2022This is a presentation given by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative at the Open Education Conference in October 2022.Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, MichelleDate:Oct 2022A panel presentation for the Open Education Conference 2022 by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) team at UCT with collaborators from Yusuf Maitama Sule University in Kano, Nigeria and Chinoyi University of Technology in Zimbabwe.Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Apr 2019This presentation reports on preliminary findings from DOT4D research, providing an overview of the project’s working conceptual framework which draws upon Nancy Fraser’s theorising on social justice (2005) and Margaret Archer’s (2000) ...Read morecb
Author:Masuku, BiancaDate:Jul 2021The Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town aims to better understand the affordances of open textbook publishing. This report presents findings ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Aug 2019At the University of Cape Town (UCT), an institution which is grappling with decolonisation and transformation of the curriculum, there is an array of imperatives which is driving academics to produce open textbooks – an activity which appears ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Dec 2020In this presentation, the DOT4D team presents an informal webinar in which it shares insights gained relating to the project’s social justice research focus and the trends emerging in the various open textbook development and publishing ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, MichelleDate:Feb 2022Presentation from the Open Textbook Conversation event hosted by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development initiative at the University of Cape Town on 10 March 2022 as part of international Open Education Week. The event was focused on ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, MichelleDate:May 2022A presentation by the DOT4D project for the OE Global Conference held in Nantes, France on the 23-25 May 2022 on collaborative open textbook development models at UCT.Read morecb
Author:Masuku, Bianca; Cox, GlendaDate:Jun 2022This is a presentation that was given by the DOT4D team as part of the CHED seminar series in June 2022.
The presentation demonstrates how academics at UCT are embarking on open textbook initiatives in response to a largely mutual set ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Nov 2019Open textbook initiatives have been successful in the United States and Canada as a means to save money for students. At the University of Cape Town (UCT), the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project, which began in July 2018, ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, BiancaDate:Nov 2022This is a presentation by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative, Glenda Cox and Bianca Masuku, for the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL) in November 2022.Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, MichelleDate:May 2020This paper provides evidence from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), on the potential of open textbooks to address social injustice in South African higher education and the practices ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Sep 2022This is the second of two workshop presentations by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative team as part of the Siyaphumelela Workshop Series in September 2022. This session introduced participants to practical ways in ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Aug 2022This is the first of two workshop presentations by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative team as part of the Siyaphumelela Workshop Series in August 2022. This interactive session provided an introduction to the concept ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Jul 2021This is a presentation by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project team for a virtual round table event that took place in July 2021. The event was held with higher education managers, librarians and academic development ...Read morecb
Author:Willmers, Michelle; Cox, Glenda; Masuku, BiancaDate:2021Action brief by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development project at the University of Cape Town highlighting the need for national support and coordination in order to grow an open textbook community of practice that can provide support ...Read morecb
Author:Trotter, Henry; Willmers, Michelle; Cox, Glenda; Masuku, BiancaDate:Sep 2021This is a report by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project team from a virtual round table event that took place in July 2021. The event was held with higher education managers, librarians and academic development practitioners ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Apr 2021The Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project is a grant-funded research, advocacy and implementation initiative based in CILT. This presentation provides insight into the DOT4D project’s recent work at UCT exploring the nexus ...Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Oct 2020In this presentation, team members from the Digital Open Textbook for Development (DOT4D) project at UCT share insights into the emerging models of open textbook production employed by lecturers in the DOT4D grants programme at UCT and describe ...Read morecb