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365 days of openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Paskevicius, Michael ; Cox, Glenda ; Shaikh, Shihaam ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Lee-Pan, Samantha Date: 2013 Historically, 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 ... Read more c b a
Academics teaching and learning at the nexus: unbundling, marketisation and digitization in higher education

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Mogliacci, Rada ; Walji, Sukaina ; Cliff, Alan ; Swinnerton, Bronwen ; Morris, Neil Date: 2021 This paper explores how academics navigate the HE landscape being reshaped by the convergence of unbundling, marketisation and digitisation processes. Social Realism distinguishes three layers of social reality (in this case higher education): ... Read more
Academics' online presence: a four-step guide to taking control of your visibility

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 2014 These Guidelines take academics through a four step process to improving their online presence, and taking charge of their online visibility. Step 1 - ‘Assess yourself' reviews ways to assess existing general online presence, and monitor it ... Read more c b a
Academics' Online Presence: Assessing and Shaping Visibility

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Sep 2012 Presentation for academics about how to assess and shape their online presence. Read more c b a
Access to learning resources in Post-apartheid South Africa

Author: Gray, Eve ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 01 May 2018 Any 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 ... Read more c b n
African Research Visibility Online: The Poverty Alleviation Case

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Wiens, Kelsey Date: 01 Jan 2013 This paper reports on an investigation into the online visibility of work undertaken in South Africa in the field of poverty alleviation. An experiment with Google searches was undertaken, motivated by concerns about the visibility of South ... Read more c b
And that's a wrap: Open Access Week 2013

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Naidoo, Uvania ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Nov 2013 Open Access (OA) Week 2013 came to an end last Friday here at UCT. Instead of the traditional scholar-scholar focus, we focused on scholar-student and scholar-community access with the overall theme this year of access. This was summed up ... Read more c b a
Approaches from the literature: Activity Theory, new tools and changing educators' practices

Author: Glover, Michael ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Walji, Sukaina ; Deacon, Andrew ; Small, Janet Date: 03 Feb 2016 For a study being undertaken to investigate if and how educator practices change through MOOC development and engagement with open education, Activity Theory provides a heuristic to observe contradictions and changing educator practices after ... Read more c b
‘Being parties in the work’: A view of the changing digitally-mediated teaching and learning landscape

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 28 Oct 2013 This presentation outlines the changing and diverse nature of the higher education landscape in South Africa in 2013, with a focus on how technology usage is changing and can potentially continue to transform educational practice, both to ... Read more c b
Born into the Digital Age in the South of Africa: the reconfiguration of the “digital citizen

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Brown, Cheryl Date: 04 Jul 2017 This presentation discusses the nature of the term 'digital native' as it applies to the case of South African students. Read more c b
Bottlenecks in the Open-Access System: Voices from Around the Globe

Author: Bonaccorso, Elisa ; Bozhankova, Reneta ; Cadena, Carlos D ; Čapská, Veronika ; Czerniewicz, Laura ; Emmett, Ada ; Oludayo, Folorunso F ; Glukhova, Natalia ; Greenberg, Marc L ; Hladnik, Miran ; Grillet, María E ; Indrawan, Mochamad ; Kapović, Mate ; Kleiner, Yuri Date: 2014 A level playing field is key for global participation in science and scholarship, particularly with regard to how scientific publications are financed and subsequently accessed. However, there are potential pitfalls of the so-called "Gold" ... Read more c b n
The Case for Openness: Access to Knowledge, Visibility, Influence, Participation and Quality

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2011 This paper introduces some ‘open' terminology (definitions given) and gives a case for openness. Evidence and research is being gathered about the value of openness for those in developing countries. For African universities, access to ... Read more c b a
The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Jul 2013 This is a print version of our ePoster presented at the 5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship & Curation, held in Durban from 26 to 28 July 2013. The print version presents a slightly more detailed look at our online presence work ... Read more c b a
The case of OpenUCT: Increasing access to UCT's research and teaching outputs

Author: Goodier, Sarah ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Jun 2013 OpenUCT's ePoster submission to the 5th African Conference for Digital Scholarship and Curation (ADSC5), held in Durban (26 -- 28 June 2013). That the research and teaching output of universities is largely hidden is well documented. Ironically ... Read more c b
Case study: Open Data in the governance of South African higher education

Author: van Schalkwyk, Francois ; Willmers, Michelle ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 01 Apr 2014 The availability and accessibility of open data has the potential to increase transparency and accountability and, in turn, the potential to improve the governance of universities as public institutions. In addition, it is suggested that open ... Read more c b
Challenges for conceptualising EU MOOCs for vulnerable learner groups

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Gallagher, Michael Sean ; Willems, Julie ; Zelezny-Green, Ronda ; de Waard, Inge ; Downes, Stephen ; Kukulska-Hulme, Agnes Date: 04 Jul 2017 This exploratory paper picks up elements from the European Commission’s educational vision and philosophy behind Opening up Education, the resulting initiative of the OpenupEd.eu MOOC platform and takes this as a starting point to ... Read more c b
Challenging Open Education

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 2016 This presentation focuses on critiquing some of the assumptions about Open Education as a response to global educational challenges. It was presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities in Manila, Philippines. Read more c b
Changing Centres of Teaching and Learning an analytical review

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: 2021 This analytical review reflects on the ways that centres for teaching and learning in universities are formulated and how they might change to best respond to and address the changing needs of students, academics and institutions in a post ... Read more c b
The Changing Journals Landscape

Author: Gray, Eve ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2011 Journals, exchange of ideas and sharing of knowledge in a community of scholars are all important in effective communication with a wider audience. The journal crisis – increasing cost of publishing and subscribing - is a growing issue for ... Read more c b a
Changing Research Communication Practices and Open Scholarship: A Framework for Analysis

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Kell, Catherine ; Willmers, Michelle ; King, Thomas Date: Apr 2014 "It is important that academics’ research communication practices are explored to complement these system approaches. How do we think about these issues in order to investigate and illuminate changing forms of knowledge creation and communication? ... Read more c b