Browsing by Subject "Global South"

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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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    Degrees of ease: adoption of OER, open textbooks and MOOCs in the Global South
    (University of Cape Town, 2014-06-25) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl
    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 by the internet have enabled a range of educational activities to be supported digitally or conducted online. Three fairly new forms of web-enabled activities that are receiving attention are Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Textbooks, and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). OERs and Open Textbooks have been hailed as a response to the demand for provision of flexible and cost-effective learning materials, while MOOCs have been touted as an answer to the provision of up-to-date and cost-effective tuition for growing numbers of students in so-called ‘developing countries’, or what I shall refer to as the Global South. This paper will offer a definition of these forms of teaching provision and learning support within the context of “Open Education” and identify the key activities underlying OER, Open Textbooks and MOOCs. It will interrogate the factors that seem to influence the ease with which educators and students in the Global South can contribute to or adapt existing materials and/or tuition to suit their contexts as a way to avoid any possible “neo-colonization and one-way flow of content based on the massive amount of content published by those in richer nations” (Amiel 2013: 127).
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    Modern Architectures: Cape Town
    (Modern Architectures in the Global South, 2021-06) Papanicolaou, Stella; Lehabe, Valerie; Rawoot, Maashitoh; Papanicolaou, Stella
    This open textbook is a collection of modern buildings, dating from 1936 to 1987, in Cape Town, South Africa. The buildings were analysed by students of Architecture at the University of Cape Town in 2019 and presented in this book as samples from a work-in-progress inventory of Modern Architectures in the Global South. Brief descriptions of each building make them accessible to scholars of architecture for further study.