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The Question Concerning Best Practices

Author: Roode, Dewald Date: 29 Nov 2006 Read more c b
ICTs in Higher Education: Current issues for African universities

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2011 This presentation gives an overview of African Higher education and research in the technology context, including mobile phones. Digital content is growing and there is a shift to openness. Why Open education? Answers: Access to knowledge, ... Read more c b a
Demystifying Open Access

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Gray, Eve Date: Oct 2011 This presentation provides the fundamentals about open access as part of the broader open agenda and locating it within changing scholarly communication and new forms of research dissemination. Adds a developing country perspective. Read more c b a
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
Open access for excellence and equity

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Nov 2011 Presentation to Berlin9 2011 making the case for open access for both excellence and equity, and in support of all three of the university's missions. Read more c b a
Opening Everything: Considerations for African Institutions

Author: Willmers, Michelle ; Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Dec 2011 Presentation explaining the long history of open scholarship and the burgeoning movement to return to a more egalitarian model of scholarly publication and dissemination. Provides a brief history of scholarship, open academic principles and ... Read more c b a
Introduction to Open Educational Resources (OER)

Author: Paskevicius, Michael Date: Mar 2012 An introduction to Open Educational Resources delivered to coursework masters students at the University of Cape Town March 29, 2012. Covers open education resources, Creative Commons licensing, issues for educators engaging in open education, ... Read more c b a
From Project to Mainstream in a constrained environment: Towards openness at the University of Cape Town

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura ; Doyle, Greg ; Cox, Glenda ; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl Date: Apr 2012 Panel presentation from the University of Cape Town at Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact - Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education. Read more c b a
The Changing Scholarly Communication and Content Landscape

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: May 2012 Talk by Laura Czerniewicz to the CHEC board for the Emerging Researcher Programme (ERP) workshop hosted by the Research Office at UCT discussing scholarship content and communication: creating knowledge and disseminating it (diagrams). Digital ... Read more c b a
Open Education: Why it matters to South Africa

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Jun 2012 A presentation at Tedx Ed Cape Town (June 2012) about open education (especially open content), why it matters, and what needs to be done. 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
Review of Open Educational Resources

Author: Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl ; Marquard, Stephen Date: Oct 2012 This presentation provides an overview of OER in general as well as in South Africa. Read more c b a
Demystifying Open Access

Author: Czerniewicz, Laura Date: Oct 2012 Open access has received a great deal of coverage in the press and blogosphere of late with the recent policy announcements by bodies such as the European Commission, DFID and Research Councils UK that all research that they fund must be ... Read more c b a
Academics' online presence: Assessing and shaping your online visibility

Author: Goodier, Sarah Date: Oct 2012 In our digital world, if you use the web, you have an online presence. And academics are no exception. Universities have webpages profiling their staff. Academic networks, like LinkedIn, Academia.edu and more, are used by researchers around ... Read more c b a
Creative Commons Practical Workshop

Author: Shaikh, Shihaam Date: Oct 2012 The Creative Commons licensing system allows for a more flexible management of the exclusive rights offered by copyright law, giving the creators the ability to choose the kinds of protections and freedoms that will govern the use of their ... Read more c b a
Exploring ‘Impact': New approaches for alternative scholarly metrics in Africa

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: Oct 2012 The relationship between insitutional values, scholarly impact and alternative metrics is explored in the following presentation, presented as part of UCT's Open Access Week 2012. Read more c b a
Treatment Failure and Adherence in Second- Line Patients

Author: Barnett, Whitney Date: Oct 2012 Results from an interview and photo-based research study looking at barriers and facilitators to adherence for second-line patients. Read more c b n a
Altmetrics and Emerging Measures of Impact

Author: Willmers, Michelle Date: Nov 2012 The internet has transformed the way we seek and use information, enabling scholars to communicate research findings more rapidly, broadly and effectively than ever before. This evolution has placed scholarly communication at the centre of ... Read more c b a
Understanding Open Licensing: Day Two - Introducing Creative Commons

Author: Shaikh, Shihaam Date: Feb 2013 Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ... Read more c b
Understanding Open Licensing: Day One - The Open Landscape

Author: Shaikh, Shihaam Date: Feb 2013 Open access publishing is rapidly growing in popularity, while materials for re-use in education and training are increasingly being sourced free from the web. This workshop will equip participants to use open licensing with confidence when ... Read more c b