• 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: 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
• 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: 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: 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: 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
• 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: 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
• The OpeningScholarship project: Executive summary

  

  Author: Gray, Eve ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Willmers, Michelle Date: 31 Aug 2009 Executive summary of the OpeningScholarship project, established in July 2007 and hosted by the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the main aim of this project was to explore ... Read more c b n a
• Delivering a research mission in an ICT-mediated information age: The case of the University of Cape Town

  

  Author: Gray, Eve Date: 31 Aug 2009 This report provides an overview of policies, practices and infrastructure at the University of Cape Town (UCT) related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for research publication. The report will primarily be ... Read more c b n a
• National environmental scan of South African scholarly publishing

  

  Author: Gray, Eve Date: 30 Apr 2009 Undertaken as part of the OpeningScholarship project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), this position paper reviews the national environment for the use of ICTs for research dissemination and publication in the South African higher education ... Read more c b n a
• International environmental scan of the use of ICTs for community engagement in higher education

  

  Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Gray, Eve ; Willmers, Michelle ; Steenkamp-Fonseca, Raymond Date: 28 Feb 2009 This position paper provides a brief overview of how higher education institutions (HEIs) internationally are using ICTs to enhance their engagement with the broader community and highlights some applications which could be useful for South ... Read more c b n a
• Life as a student with a disability

  

  Author: Abrahams, Zuleikha Date: 14 Nov 2018 Describes how she struggles with printed textbooks and the inordinate amount of time it takes to get them into a format which she could use to study. Job Access With Speech (JAWS) computer screen-reader program is able to read from a computer ... Read more
• Openess and Social Justice

  

  Author: Ncube, Caroline Date: 07 Nov 2018 A move towards open access was in tune with a quest for equity, fairness and social justice.While technology opens up important gateways, it is also necessary to be able to print the materials, bearing in mind intermittent internet access for ... Read more
• Accessible Platforms and Challenges

  

  Author: Nwanze, Ike Date: 07 Nov 2018 Higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. The basis of thinking in creating accessible educational platforms that reduces challenges to learning for students with disabilities should be human rights. Read more
• Reconceptualising the delivery of teaching material

  

  Author: Andrews, Penny Date: 07 Nov 2018 Outlines work in developing a constitutional law ebook in South Africa, which takes into account the needs of students, their legal-profession career paths and the 21st century skills they need to learn. Apart from the traditional skills like ... 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
• Open Access and Social Justice

  

  Author: Claassen, Jill Date: 07 Nov 2018 African universities should be agents for economic growth and development on the continent. 80% of knowledge created in Africa comes from Egypt, South Africa and Nigeria. UCT has the highest research output on the continent, therefore should ... Read more
• Decomposing the variance in southern elephant seal weaning mass : partitioning environmental signals and maternal effects

  

  Author: Oosthuizen, W C ; Bester, M N ; Altwegg, R ; McIntyre, T ; de Bruyn, P J N Date: 2015 Predator populations are likely to respond to bottom-up processes, but there remains limited understanding of how wide-ranging marine predators respond to environmentally driven temporal variation in food availability. Widespread declines of ... Read more

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