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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 AccessAccess to learning resources in Post-apartheid South Africa(Massachusetts Institute of Technology & International Development Research Centre, 2018-05-01) Gray, Eve; Czerniewicz, Laura; Joe KaraganisAny inquiry into how university students get the learning resources they need for their education in post-apartheid South Africa must deal with three interrelated subjects: the legacy of apartheid, which continues to structure educational opportunities in important ways more than twenty years after the first democratic election; the organization and increasingly radical transformation of the commercial publishing market, which has been the primary source of textbooks and other materials in the system; and— common to all of the chapters in this book—the mix of new-technology-enabled strategies through which students do their best to get the textbooks and other materials they need. We track three decades of tensions around these issues, as post-apartheid leaders struggle to reform an educational system originally designed primarily to control and oppress rather than educate the majority population. Because the old system had grown up around numerous (and often colonially grounded) accommodations of the global publishing business, international copyright law, and—most important—a structural disregard for whether the system worked in more than a minimal sense, the pressure for reform has produced tensions on all of these fronts.
- ItemMetadata onlyActivist networks and political protest in the Free State, 1983-1990(SADET and UNISA Press, 2010) Twala, Chitja; Seekings, JeremyChapter 14, Jeremy Seekings collaborates with Chitja Twala to examine activist networks and political protest in the Free State. The authors explain that although no regional UDF structure was ever formally launched in the area there were protests in the townships of Tumahole, Thabong (Welkom) and Mangaung (Bloemfontein); these later spread as far afield as Bethlehem and Harrismith.
- ItemOpen AccessAddressing inequalities in child health: opportunities and challenges(Children's Institute, 2012) Sanders, David; Reynolds, Louis; Lake, Lori
- ItemOpen AccessAddressing quality through school fees and school funding(Children's Institute, 2009) Hall, Katharine; Giese, Sonja
- ItemOpen AccessAddressing the social determinants of health(Children's Institute, 2010) Lake, Lori; Reynolds, Louis
- ItemOpen AccessAdoption and Impact of OER in the Global South: Chapter summaries(African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open Educational Resources for Development, 2018-02-28) Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylEducation in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year research initiative to investigate in what ways and under what circumstances the adoption of OER could address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high quality and affordable education in the Global South. The project was comprised of 18 sub-projects, the findings from which are captured as chapters in the edited volume, Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South. The summaries presented here provide an overview of chapters’ study contexts, methodological approaches, key findings and recommendations, as well as links to accompanying open datasets. Of the total 16 chapters, 12 are based on sub-project findings and four are synthesis and overview chapters. The chapters are organised into five main sections: Overview, South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and Conclusion. Within these broader sections, chapters are presented in sequence according to whether the research addresses basic or higher education.
- ItemOpen AccessAssessing Racial Redress in the Public Service(HSRC Press, 2008) Naidoo, VinothanEfforts to make South Africa’s public service more representative were propelled by the introduction of a non-racial democracy in 1994. The racial profile of South Africa’s public service was integral to sustaining the policy of apartheid, which was designed to promote a segregated and unequal system of social, economic and political relations between legally defined race groups. Van den Berghe (cited in Marger 1994: 402) interestingly referred to apartheid South Africa as a Herrenvolk democracy, defined paradoxically as a ‘state that provides most democratic features of political rule to whites while ruling blacks dictatorially’. More specifically, the creation of geographically separate and administratively distinct homeland territories to house South Africa’s black African population represented the pinnacle of a race-based system of public administration designed to strategically regulate the representation of the country’s black population in the public service relative to its white population.
- ItemOpen AccessBasic health care services for children(Children's Institute, 2010) Westwood, Anthony; Shung King, Maylene; Lake, Lori
- ItemRestrictedBiofuel policies in South Africa: a critical analysis(Springer, 2012) Letete, Thapelo; von Blottnitz, HarroIn 2007 the South African government released the country’s National Biofuels Industrial Strategy targeting a biofuels market penetration of 2% of liquid road transport fuels by 2013. Contrary to the international situation, the main driver for the development of a biofuels industry in South Africa is neither the economic threat of increasing oil prices nor mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, but the need to create a link between the country’s first and second economies. Specifically, the government hopes to stimulate economic development and to alleviate poverty through the promotion of farming in areas previously neglected by the apartheid system. Before the release of this strategy, commercial sugar producers and maize farmers represented the majority of the parties looking to drive the South African biofuels industry. But, two years after its release none of the ventures by these stakeholders have been able to take off, mainly due to the Strategy’s restrictions on the type and source of feedstock as well as on the type of farmers whose participation in the industry would be subsidised. This chapter presents a critical scientific-based analysis of the implications and results of South Africa’s National Biofuels Industrial Strategy. Firstly an update is presented on the state of the biofuels industry in the country, highlighting the current production statistics and the major investment activities, and how these were affected by the release of the Strategy. Then the ambiguities in the Strategy are outlined and critically analysed with reference to the current state of the biofuels industry in the country. The chapter then concludes with the lessons to be learnt from the South African experience by those African countries which are yet to develop their respective biofuel policies.
- ItemOpen AccessBlack Consciousness in contemporary South African politics(HSRC Press, 2009) Reddy, Thiven; Kagwanja, Peter; Kondlo, KwandiweAn ironic feature of contemporary South African politics is that while the organisations representing Black Consciousness (BC) ideas remain weak and fragmented, a revival in BC ideas, values and practices in official and civil society discourses seems evident. BC organisations dominated anti-apartheid politics in the 1970s, but their startling decline, particularly their weakened state under post-1994 democracy, calls out for analytical attention. In the 1999 and 2004 elections, the Azanian People’s Organisation (Azapo) was the leading BC organisation. Together with the smaller Socialist Party of Azania (Sopa), Azapo received dismal support. Moreover, Azapo has split into three smaller organisations. Efforts to merge the three have so far faltered. One cannot conclude, however, that the obvious failure of BC political parties to challenge the ANC and the historically white political parties at the polls means that we should dismiss these organisations’ ideologies as ineffective and lacking in influence. The resurgence of BC ideas at the level of civil society, at a time when we might expect BC to be anachronistic, is intriguing. It is also the subject of this chapter.
- ItemOpen AccessBudget allocations for implementing the Children's Act(Children's Institute, 2008) Budlender, Debbie; Proudlock, Paula; Monson, Jo
- ItemOpen AccessThe challenge of communicating science effectively in fisheries management(African Minds, 2020) Butterworth, Doug S; Weingart, P; Joubert, M; Falade, BThis chapter presents a short case study of a particular field of science communication: scientific advice to decision-makers1 in fisheries management. Scientific advice to decision-makers is a special type of science communication, as it is directly linked to political decisions. Thus, the advisory process requires certain institutional structures that guarantee the quality of the process. The chapter commences with a very brief introduction to fisheries management: what are the basic objectives, and what makes them difficult to attain. It then proceeds to summarise the basic structures that underlie the process of developing scientific advice for fisheries management measures, and of transmitting this advice to decision-makers (such as the government ministers responsible) for final decisions. This is discussed both in a South African and international context, addressing whether they are working and where the problems lie. Finally, problems in the way scientists try to communicate scientific results in these processes are highlighted, with some suggestions given of how they might be improved.
- 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 AccessChapter 1: An Introduction and General Principles(Edutech, 2022-07-01) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 2: The Forensic Mental Health Assessment(Edutech, 2022-11-16) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 3: Assessing The Accused(Edutech, 2024-10-29) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 4: The Perils of Disclosure: Writing the Forensic Report(Edutech, 2024-05-22) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 5: Malingering(Edutech, 2024-07-30) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean
- ItemOpen AccessChapter 7: Export Testimony: Jack's in the Box!(Edutech, 2024-10-29) Kaliski, Sean; Kaliski, Sean