Author:Goodier, SarahDate:Oct 2012In 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 morecba
Author:Nwanze, IkeDate:07 Nov 2018Higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit. The basis of thinking in creating accessible educational platforms that reduces challenges to learning for students with disabilities should be human rights.Read more
Author:Goodier, SarahDate:Oct 2013This workshop looked at the online tools and services external to the university that academics use. Also covered was how these tools can feed into the research and scholarly communication cycle as well as, potentially, the institutional ...Read morecba
Author:Willmers, MichelleDate:Nov 2012The 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 morecba
Author:Schalekamp, HerrieDate:30 Aug 2017Introductory presentation to workshop hosted by CfTS on technology and systems innovation in the public transport sectorRead morecb
Author:Gray, Eve; Czerniewicz, LauraDate:Oct 2011Journals, 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 morecba
Author:Czerniewicz, LauraDate:May 2012Talk 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 morecba
Author:Cox, Glenda; Willmers, Michelle; Masuku, BiancaDate:Oct 2022This is a presentation given by members of the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative at the Open Education Conference in October 2022.Read morecb
Author:Cox, Glenda; Lapperman, James; Malandu, Vimbai; Phala, GiftDate:Nov 2022This 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.Read morecb
Author:Higgs, RichardDate:15 Sep 2014A supplement to learning for Library and Information Sciences. The presentation provides a short overview of ECM for librarians, and the skills that librarians should cultivate to be able to support and derive value from Enterprise Content ...Read morecbnd
Author:Shaikh, ShihaamDate:Oct 2012The 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 morecba
Author:Cox, Glenda; Masuku, Bianca; Willmers, MichelleDate:Oct 2022A 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.Read morecb
Author:Czerniewicz, Laura; Gray, EveDate:Oct 2011This 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 morecba
Author:Czerniewicz, LauraDate:Oct 2012Open 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 morecba
Author:Sanya, TomDate:22 Sep 2014The information presented here is taken from teaching architectural technology in the 2nd Year of the UCT Bachelor of Architectural Studies programme in 2010. The underpinning idea is that architectural technology is part of this hierarchical ...Read morecbna
Author:Czerniewicz, LauraDate:04 Jul 2017This presentation discusses the concept of new students as 'digital natives' and critiques the one-sided conceptualisation of contemporary university students as inherently skilled in the use of digital and online learning tools and strategies.Read morecb