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- ItemOpen Access365 days of openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town(Athabasca University Press, 2013) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, Michael; Cox, Glenda; Shaikh, Shihaam; Czerniewicz, Laura; Lee-Pan, Samantha; McGreal, R; Kinuthia, W; Marshall, S; McNamara, THistorically, 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 in a textbook or study guide. With the growth in digital media, libraries have been extending their curation of scholarly resources to include electronic journals, digital books and reference guides, broadening access to these beyond the physical walls of the library. While the growth in digital technology has prompted academics to create their own customised and contextually specific digital media for use in their teaching in the form of PowerPoint presentations, manuals, handbooks, guides, media resources and websites, these resources are most often stored on personal hard drives, on departmental servers or within password-protected institutional learning management systems. Access to these digital materials is usually limited to registered students undertaking specific courses within specific institutions and usually only disseminated by individual academics or departments.
- ItemOpen AccessBuilding a global teaching profile: OER at UCT(2010) Paskevicius, Michael; Willmers, Michelle; Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylThis 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 understand the terrain of OER.
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 04. Framework to understand postgraduate students' adaption of academics' teaching materials as OER(2011) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, MichaelThis 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 Educational Resources (OER). It describes how masters' students, tutors and interns at the University of Cape Town have been engaged to support the innovative practice of adapting academics' existing teaching materials into OER.
- ItemOpen AccesseLearning / Education Conferences in Southern Africa 2012(2012-01) Paskevicius, MichaelI was asked recently about elearning or educational technology conferences in South Africa in 2012. My colleague Tony Carr pointed me to a global list of conferences compiled by Clayton R. Wright shared on the eLearning Technology blog. I have extracted the conferences which are in the South African region.
- ItemOpen AccessIntroduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)(2012-03) Paskevicius, MichaelAn introduction to Open Educational Resources delivered to coursework masters students at the University of Cape Town March 29, 2012. Covers open education resources, Creative Commons licensing, issues for educators engaging in open education, curation, metadata, and new forms of open education such as massive open online courses.
- ItemOpen AccessIntroduction to Open Educational Resources 2012(2012) Paskevicius, MichaelThis screencast provides an introduction to Open Educational Resources originally delivered to coursework masters students at the University of Cape Town March 29, 2012. May be useful to educators intrested in engaging in open education or students exploring avenues for informal study.
- ItemOpen AccessIt's not their job to share content': a case study of the role of senior students in adapting teaching materials as open educational resources at the University of Cape Town(Symposium Journals, 2013) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, MichaelInspired by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's landmark decision to make its teaching and learning materials freely available to the public as OpenCourseWare (OCW), many other higher education institutions have followed suit sharing resources now more generally referred to as Open Educational Resources (OER). The University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa joined the OER movement with the launch of the UCT OpenContent directory in February 2010. While much of the research has focused on the potential value of OER to institutions and to the community at large, less attention has been paid to the complex processes that need to be undertaken to adapt existing materials as OER and specifically the opportunity to engage senior students in this practice. In this article the authors explore the processes that three senior physics students employed in assisting their lecturers to adapt existing materials as OER, the challenges they encountered and the contribution these students made. The findings reveal that the senior physics students report having sufficient time, knowledge of the field and skill in using a range of technological tools that made the OER adaptation process of their lecturers' materials easier. Based on the participating physics lecturers' acceptance of the students' adaptations of their materials, it would seem that the strategy of using senior students to support busy lecturers to adapt existing teaching materials as OER is worth considering.
- ItemOpen AccessOpen Teaching in a Digital Age(2014-09-17) Paskevicius, Michael; Willmers, Michelle; Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylThis powerpoint presentation can be used for reference or in sharing the idea of open educational resources. The digital age has rung in profound changes for the higher education endeavour – not least of which has been a revolution in the way teaching materials are generated, shared and re-appropriated by means of the internet. This is the realm of OER, a new philosophy in teaching and learning which has the potential to open new channels for the flow of knowledge. OER UCT invites you to explore the unlimited potential to boost your individual academic profile as well as that of your department or faculty by sharing your teaching efforts with the global OER community. This informative session will provide you with an introduction to the realm of OER, provide practical suggestions on how to publish your teaching materials on the internet, and cover aspects relating to copyright and licensing.
- ItemOpen AccessThe role of postgraduate students in co-authoring open educational resources to promote social inclusion: a case study at the University of Cape Town(Taylor & Francis, 2012) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Paskevicius, MichaelLike many universities worldwide, the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa has joined the open educational resources (OER) movement, making a selection of teaching and learning materials available through its OER directory, UCT OpenContent. However, persuading and then supporting busy academics to share their teaching materials as OER still remains a challenge. In this article, we report on an empirical study of how UCT postgraduate students have assisted in the process of reworking the academics' teaching materials as OER. Using the concept of contradictions (Engeström, 2001), we endeavor to surface the various disturbances or conflicts with which the postgraduate students had to engage to make OER socially inclusive, as well as Engeström's “layers of causality" (2011, p. 609) to explain postgraduate students' growing sense of agency as they experienced the OER development process as being socially inclusive.
- ItemOpen AccessStarting with screencasts(2010) Paskevicius, MichaelA short presentation which introduces screencasting: recording the actions and movements performed on a computer screen. Screencasts can be used to demonstrate how to use a particular piece of software/website or to demonstrate a concept using the computer screen much like a classroom blackboard. The recorded videos can then be shared on the web so that anyone can access your lesson. This resource can be used by instructors or anyone interested in creating screencasts.
- ItemOpen AccessWhere resources are hosted on UCT OpenContent(2011-12) Paskevicius, MichaelSomeone asked me recently; UCT OpenContent has grown quite significantly over the past year (we now have 164 OER's shared from UCT!), where are all of these resources hosted? Since we don't yet have a formal institutional repository here at UCT we don't have all of our resources stored in one central location. This adds a significant amount of complexity to managing our collection, but there are reasons for not putting all of our eggs in one basket. A decision made very early in the OER project was to host resources wherever they made most sense to host. I ran a quick analysis of the web locations of the resources currently in UCT OpenContent.