Browsing by Author "Masuku, Bianca"

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    Collaborative open textbook creation: Perspectives on student involvement
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-10) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    This is a presentation given by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative at the Open Education Conference in October 2022.
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    Decolonizing Learning in the Global South: Opportunities and Challenges in Higher Education
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-10) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    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.
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    Digital Open Textbooks for Development OER19
    (2019-04) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    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) conceptualisation of agency. It will also provide early insights gained from the project’s grants initiative and advocacy interactions, addressing the question of what interventions are required within the South African higher education system to promote open textbook production that supports curriculum transformation, intersectionality, affordable access and long-term sustainability.
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    Digital open textbooks for social justice: Collaboration and student co-creation
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2023-03) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    This is a presentation by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative, Dr Glenda Cox, Bianca Masuku and Michelle Willmers, at the UCT Open Textbook Conversation event as part of Open Education Week in March 2023.
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    DOT4D Open Textbook Landscape Survey Report: University of Cape Town
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021-07) Masuku, Bianca
    The 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 from the DOT4D landscape survey which served to capture the institutional open textbook publishing terrain in order to gain a sense of current open textbook production and publication activity taking place within the university.
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    DOT4D UCT Open Textbook Conversation: Part 1
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2019-08) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    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 to be on the increase despite current challenges related to lack of institutional reward, pressures related to time constraints and the need for better articulated quality assurance mechanisms. In order to address the issue of institutional support for open textbook publishing, surface current models of open textbook production and contribute towards the development of a community of practice, the DOT4D project hosted the UCT Open Textbook Conversation event with academics, students and institutional managers with an interest in open textbook production.
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    DOT4D UCT Open Textbook Conversation: Part 2
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2020-12) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    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 processes undertaken by lecturers and students at UCT.
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    Inclusivity, collaboration and student co-creation: Open textbook production models for social justice
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-03) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    This is a presentation by the DOT4D project for Open Education Week in March 2022
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    Inclusivity, collaboration and student co-creation: Open textbook production models for social justice
    (2022-02) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    Presentation 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 launching the UCT UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice, profiling the UCT Open Textbook Award, addressing issues related to institutional support and the transformation agenda, and sharing findings from the DOT4D open textbook models for social justice articulation process.
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    Open textbook authorship, quality assurance and publishing: Social justice models of participatory design, engagement, co-creation and partnership
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-06) Masuku, Bianca; Cox, Glenda
    This 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 of social injustices they witness in their classrooms related to affordable access, curriculum transformation and multilingualism. With a focus on student co-creation and inclusion, it presents models that address social (in)justice in the classroom and explores ways in which institutions can address sustainability in order to support open textbook development activity.
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    Open textbook authorship, quality assurance and publishing: Social justice models of participatory design, engagement, co-creation and partnership
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-05) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    A 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.
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    Open textbook case studies: social justice, agency and intersectionality
    (2019-11) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    Open 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, has also looked at cost savings. However, the impetus for this project is premised on the potential for open textbooks to transform curriculum, a current imperative in the South African higher education system. This presentation, delivered at the OE Global 2019 Conference, outlines the application of the DOT4D project social justice, social realist and intersectional approach.
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    Open Textbook Journeys: Lessons learnt at the University of Cape Town
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-11) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca
    This 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.
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    Open Textbooks and Social Justice: Open Educational Practices to Address Economic, Cultural and Political Injustice at the University of Cape Town
    (2020-05) Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    This 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 utilised by UCT staff to address these challenges. The paper uses Nancy Fraser’s (2005) trivalent lens to examine inequality, specifically as relates to the following dimensions: economic (maldistribution of resources); cultural (misrecognition of culture and identities); and political (misrepresentation or exclusion of voice). The findings demonstrate that open textbooks have the potential to disrupt histories of exclusion in South African higher education institutions by addressing issues of cost and marginalisation through the creation of affordable, contextually-relevant learning resources. In addition to this, they provide affordances which enable lecturers to change the way they teach, include student voices and create innovative pedagogical strategies.
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    Open textbooks and the empowerment of students as partners in curriculum change
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2024-11) Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, Michelle
    This is a presentation by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative for the UCT Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) in November 2024.
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    Open textbooks as a technology
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2023-09) Masuku, Bianca
    This is a presentation created by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Researcher, Bianca Masuku, for a Learning Designers Trainee Learning Time session in September 2023.
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    Open Textbooks for Curriculum Change and Student Co-Creation: Collaborative models of open textbook production and student co-creation (Workshop 2)
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-09) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    This 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 which to initiate open textbook production and engage students in authorship, quality assurance and publishing processes.
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    Open Textbooks for Curriculum Change and Student Co-Creation: Introduction to open textbooks for social justice (Workshop 1)
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-08) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    This 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 of open textbooks, with a particular focus on the affordances they provide to address social injustice in the classroom.
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    Open Textbooks in South African Higher Education
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021-07) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, Bianca
    This 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 practitioners and provided an opportunity for these stakeholders to have an exploratory conversation around possible areas of collaboration and identify practical, implementable steps that can be taken to support this area of work going forward.
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    Open Textbooks in South African Higher Education: Call to Action 2021
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021) Willmers, Michelle; Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca
    Action 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 across institutions and co-ordinate content production activities in order to obtain greater efficiencies in South African higher education open textbook production, publication and curation across the sector.