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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
Adjusting pedagogy to optimise negotiability and interactivity in lessons using the interactive whiteboard an action research study in a primary school

Author: Jaftha, Cheryl Date: 2012 One of the recent technological devices that have been introduced in the educational domain is the interactive whiteboard (IWB). IWBs have become established teaching and learning tools, particularly in primary school classrooms in developed ... Read more
Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Arinto, Patricia Date: 22 Dec 2017 Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational ... Read more c b
Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South: Chapter summaries

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2018 Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access ... Read more c b
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: Custom-designed virtual experiment in fracture mechanics in Mechanical Engineering

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 30 Nov 2008 This case study describes the development and use of a custom-designed virtual experiment in Mechanical Engineering which partially simulates the concept of metal fatigue to help student engage with a complex practical application. It then ... Read more c b n a
Case study: Interactive spreadsheets

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 30 Nov 2008 This paper describes how the Department of Statistics at the University of Cape Town (UCT) currently uses interactive spreadsheets to assist students in analysing and preparing summaries of data. It explores some of the potential benefits ... Read more c b n a
Case study: Mobile learning

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Ng'ambi, Dick Date: 28 Feb 2009 At the University of Cape Town (UCT) mobile learning is being adopted for teaching and learning purposes. This paper describes the use of the Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ) tool, designed and developed at UCT by Dick Ng‟ambi, as a ... Read more c b n a
Case study: Simulations for visualisation of complex processes and principles in chemical engineering and in physics

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This paper describes two case studies where open source software (OSS) has been used to create simulations to assist students in visualising complex processes in university courses. The first case reviews the use of Python to help students ... Read more c b n a
Case study: The Health and Human Rights Programme

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 28 Feb 2009 This case study provides an overview of the Health and Human Rights Project (HHRP), which was established and run collaboratively by the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine and a human rights NGO, the Trauma ... Read more c b n a
Chapter 04. Framework to understand postgraduate students' adaption of academics' teaching materials as OER

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Paskevicius, Michael Date: 2011 This chapter addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of OER contribution, namely academics' lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as stand-alone Open ... Read more c b a
Cognitive apprenticeship in architecture education: using a scaffolding tool to support conceptual design

Author: Hitge, Lize-Mari Date: 2016 Modeled on the master-apprenticeship relationship, student designers gain access to implicit design knowledge mainly through the conversations with their tutors during studio projects. However, intimate design studio tutelage is being challenged ... Read more
Degrees of ease: adoption of OER, open textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: 25 Jun 2014 Internationally, education institutions are under a great deal of pressure to provide rising numbers of students with access to quality education in increasingly economically constrained environments. For some time now, the affordances provided ... Read more c b
Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Gray, Eve Date: 2009 Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and ... Read more c b n d
Developing communities of practice within and outside higher education institutions

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Slay, Hannah ; Siebörger, Ingrid Date: 2007 Higher education institutions (HEIs) are largely built on the assumption that learning is an individual process best encouraged by explicit teaching that is, on the whole, separated from social engagement with those outside the university ... 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 influencing Open Educational Practices and OER in the Global South: Meta-synthesis of the ROER4D project

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Arinto, Patricia ; Cartmill, Tess ; King, Thomas Date: Dec 2017 This chapter provides a meta-synthesis of the findings from the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) empirical studies based on the 13 sub-project chapters in this volume as well as other sub-project research reports. ... Read more c b