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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
Collaborative open textbook creation: Perspectives on student involvement

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Willmers, Michelle ; Masuku, Bianca Date: Oct 2022 This is a presentation given by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative at the Open Education Conference in October 2022. Read more c b
Collaborative open textbook creation: Perspectives on student involvement

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Lapperman, James ; Malandu, Vimbai ; Phala, Gift Date: Nov 2022 This is a presentation given by the PI of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative, Dr. Glenda Cox, alongside Dr James Lapperman and two student collaborators at the UCT Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) in November 2022. Read more c b
Decolonizing Learning in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Masuku, Bianca ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Oct 2022 A 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 more c b
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 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
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
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
Improving the Teaching Staff Capacity to Integrate EdTech in the Teaching and Learning Processes at Eduardo Mondlane University

Author: Mate, Marisa Jeremias Date: 2022 Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) has been implementing training courses in the use of technologies in the teaching and learning process. However, despite the efforts made by the university, the use of these technologies by lecturers at UEM ... Read more
Inclusivity, collaboration and student co-creation: Open textbook production models for social justice

Author: Cox, Glenda ; Masuku, Bianca ; Willmers, Michelle Date: Mar 2022 This is a presentation by the DOT4D project for Open Education Week in March 2022 Read more c b