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Alternative metrics in Africa: An Interview with Cameron Neylon

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: Dec 2011 The Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) recently hosted Cameron Neylon on his first visit to South Africa for a week of activity and discussion around alternative metrics and research evaluation. Based at the UK Science and ... Read more c b a
Altmetrics and Emerging Measures of Impact

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: Nov 2012 The internet has transformed the way we seek and use information, enabling scholars to communicate research findings more rapidly, broadly and effectively than ever before. This evolution has placed scholarly communication at the centre of ... Read more c b a
Building a global teaching profile: OER at UCT

Author: Paskevicius, Michael ; Willmers, Michelle ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 2010 This resource is a slideshow on open educational resources and how academics can build a global teaching profile online. This slideshare slidecast includes slides and audio syncronized which can be used in part or fully to help academics ... Read more c b a
Case study: Cell-Life

Author: Willmers, Michelle ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study analyses the ways in which the Cell-Life initiative, a collaboration between the University of Cape Town's departments of Civil and Electrical Engineering and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, utilised technology-based ... Read more c b n a
Case study: Feminist Africa

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a journal, Feminist Africa, in the context of an academic department at the University of Cape Town. The journal is of particular interest, because, being situated in the African ... Read more c b n a
Case study: Open Data in the governance of South African higher education

Author: van Schalkwyk, Francois ; Willmers, Michelle ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 01 Apr 2014 The availability and accessibility of open data has the potential to increase transparency and accountability and, in turn, the potential to improve the governance of universities as public institutions. In addition, it is suggested that open ... Read more c b
Case study: South African Review of Sociology

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a scholarly society journal, the South African Review of Sociology, in a context in which the Scientific Editor is a senior member of an academic department at the University of ... Read more c b n a
Case study: UCT Press

Author: Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 31 Jul 2009 The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas. The OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subject for case study in ... Read more c b n a
Changing Research Communication Practices and Open Scholarship: A Framework for Analysis

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Kell, Catherine ; Willmers, Michelle ; King, Thomas Date: Apr 2014 "It is important that academics’ research communication practices are explored to complement these system approaches. How do we think about these issues in order to investigate and illuminate changing forms of knowledge creation and communication? ... Read more c b
Costs and Beneﬁts of Open Access: A Guide for Managers in Southern African Higher Education

Author: Swan, Alma ; Willmers, Michelle ; King, Thomas Date: Feb 2014 In most institutions, researchers will typically enter into a wide range of publishing relationships with commercial and other publishing entities, depending on disciplinary dynamics, considerations around journal reach and impact, likelihood ... Read more c b
Digital Open Textbooks for Development Apereo19

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: Apr 2019 Presentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Publishing and Implementation Manager, Michelle Willmers, to the Apereo Africa Conference 2019, University of Cape Town. Read more c b
Digital Open Textbooks for Development OER19

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle ; Masuku, Bianca Date: Apr 2019 This 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 more c b
Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Broadening access and supporting curriculum transformation at UCT

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Jul 2018 A presentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Principal Investigator, Glenda Cox, and Publishing and Implementation Manager, Michelle Willmers, at the UCT Teaching and Learning Conference in July 2018. Read more c b
Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Collaborative, sustainable models for transformation and student involvement

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Jun 2022 This is a panel presentation from the Siyaphumelela Conference that took place in June 2022 titled “All About OER Textbooks” Read more c b
Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Collaborative, sustainable models for transformation and student involvement

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Jun 2022 This is a panel presentation by the Digital Open Textbook for Development (DOT4D) initiative members Dr Glenda Cox and Michelle Willmers at the Siyaphumelela Conference in June 2022. Read more c b
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
Dimensions of open research: critical reflections on openness in the ROER4D project

Author: King, Thomas ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl-Ann ; Willmers, Michelle ; Walji, Sukaina Date: 2016 Open Research has the potential to advance the scientific process by improving the transparency, rigour, scope and reach of research, but choosing to experiment with Open Research carries with it a set of ideological, legal, technical ... Read more c b
Discoverability and 21st Century Scholarly Communication: A local perspective

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: 09 Sep 2014 The Discoverability of African Scholarship Online workshop took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 10-11 March 2014. This workshop was organised by the OpenUCT Initiative and the Carnegie Corporation. Michelle Willmers' presentation from the workshop ... Read more c b
DOT4D UCT Open Textbook Conversation: Part 1

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle ; Masuku, Bianca Date: Aug 2019 At 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 more c b
DOT4D UCT Open Textbook Conversation: Part 2

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle ; Masuku, Bianca Date: Dec 2020 In 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 more c b