Browsing by Subject "open content"

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    Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town
    (University of the West Indies, 2009) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Gray, Eve
    Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and distance universities are using ICTs to make a selection of their teaching resources freely available as 'open education resources' (OER). The University of Cape Town recently signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration signalling some senior level support for the notion of OER. In anticipation of an institution-wide roll-out, lecturers and educational technologists at UCT are grappling with the issues that need to be addressed to meet this intent. This paper suggests that careful analysis of existing educational materials and processes is necessary to provide an indication of what can be done to make them more openly available beyond the confines of an individual teaching and learning space. However, the deceptively simple term “open” hides a reef of complexity. This paper endeavours to unravel the degrees of openness with respect to key attributes of OER, namely social, technical, legal and financial openness in an attempt to make the task of identifying where changes could be made to existing teaching materials or processes a little easier for the lecturer and the educational technologist alike. While acknowledging the potential value of content, we contend, however, that it is the opening up of educational processes, which we are calling Open Pedagogy (OP) enabled by the Web 2.0 technologies that are set to play the more transformational role in the collaboration between students and lecturers.
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    MOOCs: A UCT Discussion
    (2014-11-05) Czerniewicz, Laura; Walji, Sukaina; Small, Janet; Deacon, Andrew
    This is a presentation by MOOC Task Team to inform the discussion around MOOCs in the UCT Course provision landscape. The presentation took place at the Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CILT), Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED) here at UCT on 31 March 2014.
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    OER & MOOCs: What’s the fuss?
    (2014-11-04) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Czerniewicz, Laura
    As part of Open Education Week 2014 here at UCT, Associate Professor Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz provided some insights into what Open Educational Resources (OER) & Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are and why they are being touted as ways of providing access to quality education in tough economic times. By referring to global and local UCT examples of OER on UCT OpenContent, this presentation helps to demystify these relatively new opportunities on the educational landscape.
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    OER4Us
    (2012) Mitchell, Veronica; Southgate, Nicole
    The enabling environment of the internet brings far-reaching changes to Intellectual Property issues. Using the internet as a resource for teaching and learning is becoming an imperative in Higher Education. However lack of awareness about online copyright laws frequently leads to unintentional breaching of these laws especially in terms of images. This workshop for Year 1 students in the Health Sciences Faculty aims to educate students about OER, to develop their capacity to source appropriate material (especially images) on the World Wide Web, to raise an awareness of online copyright issues and to assist the students in understanding and respecting copyright laws. The link between health and human rights is used as the main topic for guiding students' searches.
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    Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town: introducing copyright and Creative Commons
    (2014-11-04) King, Thomas
    On 13 March 2014, OpenUCT and the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) held a workshop day with UCT Libraries on open educational resources (OERs) at UCT. Thomas King's presentation covered open educational resources and open licensing.
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    Openness at UCT - A brief history about OpenUCT
    (2014-11-04) Czerniewicz, Laura
    On 13 March 2014, OpenUCT and the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) held a workshop day with UCT Libraries on open educational resources (OERs) at UCT. Laura Czerniewicz's presentation covered the history of openness here at the University of Cape Town.
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    Openness in Higher Education - Open Educational Resources
    (2014-11-04) Cox, Glenda
    On 13 March 2014, OpenUCT and the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) held a workshop day with UCT Libraries on open educational resources (OERs) at UCT. Glenda Cox's presentation covered open educational resources and UCT's OpenContent repository.
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    Sustaining OER at the University of Cape Town: free, but not cheap
    (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Open Universiteit Nederland and Brigham Young University, 2014-11-05) Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Donnelly, Shihaam
    Paper focusing on open educational resources (OERs) at UCT. OER initiatives have moved from a fringe activity to a key component in both teaching and learning in higher education and in the fulfilling the universities' mission and goals. Reduction in the cost of materials is yet to be realised in practice make it necessary to consider various strategies for new OER initiatives e.g. the OpenContent directory at UCT. This paper reviews the range of sustainability strategies mentioned in the literature, plots the results of a small-scale OER sustainability survey against these strategies and explains how these findings and other papers on OER initiatives were used to inform an in-house workshop at UCT to deliberate the future strategy for the sustainability of OER at UCT.