Author:Willmers, Michelle; Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:28 Feb 2009This case study analyses the ways in which the Cell-Life initiative, a collaboration between the University of Cape Town's departments of Civil and Electrical Engineering and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, utilised technology-based ...Read morecbna
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:28 Feb 2009This case study provides an overview of the Health and Human Rights Project (HHRP), which was established and run collaboratively by the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine and a human rights NGO, the Trauma ...Read morecbna
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:30 Nov 2008This 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 ...Read morecbna
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:30 Nov 2008This 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 ...Read morecbna
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, CherylDate:28 Feb 2009This paper describes two case studies where open source software (OSS) has been used to
create simulations to assist students in visualising complex processes in university courses.
The first case reviews the use of Python to help students ...Read morecbna
Author:Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Ng'ambi, DickDate:28 Feb 2009At the University of Cape Town (UCT) mobile learning is being adopted for teaching and learning purposes. This paper describes the use of the Dynamic Frequently Asked Questions (DFAQ) tool, designed and developed at UCT by Dick Ng‟ambi, as a ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, Eve; Willmers, MichelleDate:31 Jul 2009The University of Cape Town (UCT) Press was established in 1994. The modern-day university press presents an interesting mix of challenges and conflicting agendas. The OpeningScholarship project chose UCT Press as a subject for case study in ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, Eve; Willmers, MichelleDate:28 Feb 2009This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a journal, Feminist Africa, in the context of an academic department at the University of Cape Town. The journal is of particular interest, because, being situated in the African ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, Eve; Willmers, MichelleDate:28 Feb 2009This case study describes the use of ICTs in the publication of a scholarly society journal, the South African Review of Sociology, in a context in which the Scientific Editor is a senior member of an academic department at the University of ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, Eve; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Willmers, MichelleDate:31 Aug 2009Executive summary of the OpeningScholarship project, established in July 2007 and hosted by the Centre for Educational Technology at the University of Cape Town. Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the main aim of this project was to explore ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, EveDate:31 Aug 2009This report provides an overview of policies, practices and infrastructure at the University of Cape Town (UCT) related to the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for research publication. The report will primarily be ...Read morecbna
Author:Gray, EveDate:30 Apr 2009Undertaken as part of the OpeningScholarship project at the University of Cape Town (UCT), this position paper reviews the national environment for the use of ICTs for research dissemination and publication in the South African higher education ...Read morecbna
Author:de Moor, C LDate:Jun 2017This document details the method agreed at the Small Pelagic Scientific Working Group meeting on 27th June 2017 to be used to inform the maximum directed >14cm sardine catch to be recommended to be caught west of Cape Agulhas during 2017. The ...Read more
Author:Johnston, S J; Butterworth, D SDate:Sep 2017FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/51 provided a full description of the current stock assessment model for the South African Horse Mackerel. FISHERIES/2016/SEP/SWG-DM/52 reported updated 2016 assessments for a number of model variants where the ...Read more
Author:Rademeyer, Rebecca A; Butterworth, Doug SDate:Mar 2017The gravity model of explicit spatial movement for the two South African hake species is extended to take account of advice from a mini-task group as on the plausibility of some earlier estimates of movement proportions and to incorporate ...Read morecb
Author:Rademeyer, R A; Butterworth, D SDate:Feb 2017This paper gives full algebraic specifications of the 2016 South African hake Reference Case assessment. The data used
as input to the Reference Case are listed in Appendix A. Parameter estimates and detailed values for different
contributions ...Read morecb
Author:Johnston, S J; Butterworth, D SDate:Aug 2017The 2017 assessment of the resource is updated given two further years of data now available. Recruitment is estimated to have increased over the last two seasons compared to the previous three seasons when recruitment was estimated to be ...Read morecb
Author:Johnston, S J; Butterworth, D SDate:Jan 2017The SWG TAC recommendations for the next five years corresponded to reducing the previous recovery target by 2021 compared to 2006 from a 35% increase down to about a 7% decrease in median terms. The final DAFF decision was to leave the TAC ...Read more