Browsing by Subject "open textbooks"

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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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    Collaborative open textbook creation: Perspectives on student involvement
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-11) Cox, Glenda; Lapperman, James; Malandu, Vimbai; Phala, Gift
    This is a presentation given by the PI of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative, Dr. Glenda Cox, alongside Dr James Lapperman and two student collaborators at the UCT Teaching and Learning Conference (TLC) in November 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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    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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    Digital Open Textbooks for Development Apereo19
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2019-04) Willmers, Michelle
    Presentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Publishing and Implementation Manager, Michelle Willmers, to the Apereo Africa Conference 2019, University of Cape Town.
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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 Development: Broadening access and supporting curriculum transformation at UCT
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2018-07) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle
    A presentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) Principal Investigator, Glenda Cox, and Publishing and Implementation Manager, Michelle Willmers, at the UCT Teaching and Learning Conference in July 2018.
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    Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Collaborative, sustainable models for transformation and student involvement
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-06) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle
    This is a panel presentation from the Siyaphumelela Conference that took place in June 2022 titled “All About OER Textbooks”
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    Digital Open Textbooks for Development: Collaborative, sustainable models for transformation and student involvement
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2022-06) Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle
    This is a panel presentation by the Digital Open Textbook for Development (DOT4D) initiative members Dr Glenda Cox and Michelle Willmers at the Siyaphumelela Conference in June 2022.
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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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    Open access week at Walter Sisulu
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2024-10) Cox, Glenda
    This is a presentation by the PI of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative, Glenda Cox, as part of Oepn Access Week at Walter Sisulu University in October 2024.
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    Open education and social justice: Collaboration and student co-creation at the University of Cape Town
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2023-01) Cox, Glenda
    This is a presentation by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative's PI, Dr Glenda Cox, at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in January 2023.
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    Open education and social justice: Future imperatives
    (Digital Open Textbooks for Development, 2023-05) Cox, Glenda
    This is a presentation by Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) PI, Dr Glenda Cox, at the Future of Open Education in May 2023.
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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.