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- 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 AccessCase study: Custom-designed virtual experiment in fracture mechanics in Mechanical Engineering(2008-11-30) Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylThis 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 explores some of the enabling or constraining structures, policies and practices at a national, institutional and personal level that appear to have an impact on making such a simulation available as an open educational resource.
- ItemOpen AccessCase study: Interactive spreadsheets(2008-11-30) Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylThis 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 of making such resources more freely available to others as Open Educational Resources (OER), and outlines the key issues which would need to be resolved in order to do so. To this end, this paper discusses the pedagogical needs that led to the lecturers using the spreadsheet program MSExcel to encourage students to engage actively with statistical processes. It describes how the lecturers and students use these interactive spreadsheets and examines how well these interactive spreadsheets seemed to have worked, so that others who may have similar pedagogical needs can be alerted to the advantages and disadvantages of using this type of technology. In addition, this paper explores the possibility of these interactive spreadsheets being offered as OER first to other departments at UCT and then to a broader community.
- ItemOpen AccessDOT4D Open Textbook Landscape Survey Report: University of Cape Town(Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021-07) Masuku, BiancaThe 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.
- 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 AccessMOOCs, openness and changing educator practices: an Activity Theory case study(Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Networked Learning 2016, 2016-05-19) Czerniewicz, Laura; Glover, Michael; Deacon, Andrew; Walji, SukainaThe practices and perceptions of educators formed through the creation and running of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provide a case study of how educators understandings of ‘openness’ change (Beetham et al 2012, p 3). We are interested in how educators engage with open education resources (OER) and openness as part of developing open online courses, and how this informs their practices and attitudes afterwards. Deepening understandings of these changes is important for informing strategies involving helping educators in adopting productive open educational practices. Our research question is how do educators’ practices change or not change when using - or not using - OER in and as a MOOC? We are interested in whether and why educators adopt open practices in their MOOCs. We employ an Activity Theory (AT) conceptual framework as a heuristic tool to track and thickly describe educators’ practices and perceptions. This frame enables us to locate educators’ practices - in a context of mediating nodes, i.e., tools/artefacts, rules, divisions of labour, and community – as they strive towards and consider their object. The object upon which the educators act is the development of a new interdisciplinary field. We focus on the role of two mediating artefacts introduced into the activity system, namely Creative Commons (CC) licenses and the ‘MOOC design’. We describe how the open aspect of these artefacts mediate and affect educator’s perceptions, attitudes and educational practices in the context of their object-directed activity system. We draw predominantly on semi-structured interviews with the MOOC lead educators and the MOOC learning designers. Interviews were conducted at two time intervals, before and after the MOOC has run. From this we craft two activity systems. We have categorised our findings according to Beetham et al’s dimensions of open practices. Further, two broad themes emerged from the data analysis. These are Affordances of the MOOC and Reflection on educational practices.
- 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 AccessOpen Textbooks(Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021-08) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, MichelleOpen textbook development encompasses a life cycle of activities, in which authors need to give consideration to a range of activities based on the problem they are trying to address, including authorship strategy, identification of delivery mechanisms, production and publishing approaches, quality assurance mechanisms, as well as dissemination and uptake. This interactive session introduces open textbook authors and OER practitioners to the life cycle of open textbook development, highlighting different models and approaches seen in the Digital Open Textbooks for Development project at the University of Cape Town.
- ItemMetadata onlyOpeningScholarship(2014-08-21) Gray, Eve; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Willmers, MichellePublication output from the 2007/2008 OpeningScholarship project which ran in the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) at the University of Cape Town. The main aim of this project was to explore the opportunities that information communication technologies and open dissemination models could offer for enhanced communication and more effective knowledge dissemination at UCT. These resources could be useful in strategic examination of how technology can be applied in higher education endeavour and case studies provide insight into particular UCT initiatives.
- ItemOpen AccessPublishing an academic book(Digital Open Textbook for Development, 2021-05) Willmers, MichelleThere are an increasing number of online book authoring and publishing platforms which can be used free of charge. These platforms present new innovative and more open, inclusive ways of publishing scholarly content, but pose challenges around quality assurance and sustainability. This presentation will highlight some of the publishing approaches being adopted at UCT, the quality assurance strategies employed and considerations around institutional support and longevity.
- ItemOpen AccessReady or Not? OER workshops at 3 South African Universities(2017-07-27) Cox, Glenda; Trotter, HenryThis presentation focuses on workshops conducted at three South African universities on the subject of Open Educational Resources, as part of Sub-project 4 of the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project.
- ItemOpen AccessWhy Open Education Matters?(Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2021-10) Cox, GlendaPresentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Principal Investigator, Dr. Glenda Cox, at the Walter Sisulu Open Access week 2021.