Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town

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dc.contributor.authorHodgkinson-Williams, Cherylen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorGray, Eveen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-10-28T14:07:04Z
dc.date.available2014-10-28T14:07:04Z
dc.date.issued2009en_ZA
dc.description.abstractInformation and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and distance universities are using ICTs to make a selection of their teaching resources freely available as 'open education resources' (OER). The University of Cape Town recently signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration signalling some senior level support for the notion of OER. In anticipation of an institution-wide roll-out, lecturers and educational technologists at UCT are grappling with the issues that need to be addressed to meet this intent. This paper suggests that careful analysis of existing educational materials and processes is necessary to provide an indication of what can be done to make them more openly available beyond the confines of an individual teaching and learning space. However, the deceptively simple term “open” hides a reef of complexity. This paper endeavours to unravel the degrees of openness with respect to key attributes of OER, namely social, technical, legal and financial openness in an attempt to make the task of identifying where changes could be made to existing teaching materials or processes a little easier for the lecturer and the educational technologist alike. While acknowledging the potential value of content, we contend, however, that it is the opening up of educational processes, which we are calling Open Pedagogy (OP) enabled by the Web 2.0 technologies that are set to play the more transformational role in the collaboration between students and lecturers.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHodgkinson-Williams, C., & Gray, E. (2009). Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town. <i>International Journal of Education and Development using ICT</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8860en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl, and Eve Gray "Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town." <i>International Journal of Education and Development using ICT</i> (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8860en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHodgkinson-Williams, C., Gray, E. 2009. Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1814-0556en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Journal Article AU - Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl AU - Gray, Eve AB - Information and communication technologies (ICTs) provide a range of opportunities to share educational materials and processes in ways that are not yet fully understood. In an extraordinary development, increasing numbers of traditional and distance universities are using ICTs to make a selection of their teaching resources freely available as 'open education resources' (OER). The University of Cape Town recently signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration signalling some senior level support for the notion of OER. In anticipation of an institution-wide roll-out, lecturers and educational technologists at UCT are grappling with the issues that need to be addressed to meet this intent. This paper suggests that careful analysis of existing educational materials and processes is necessary to provide an indication of what can be done to make them more openly available beyond the confines of an individual teaching and learning space. However, the deceptively simple term “open” hides a reef of complexity. This paper endeavours to unravel the degrees of openness with respect to key attributes of OER, namely social, technical, legal and financial openness in an attempt to make the task of identifying where changes could be made to existing teaching materials or processes a little easier for the lecturer and the educational technologist alike. While acknowledging the potential value of content, we contend, however, that it is the opening up of educational processes, which we are calling Open Pedagogy (OP) enabled by the Web 2.0 technologies that are set to play the more transformational role in the collaboration between students and lecturers. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - International Journal of Education and Development using ICT KW - open education KW - Open Educational Resources KW - open content KW - e-learning KW - open educational processes KW - open pedagogy KW - degrees of openness KW - Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) KW - higher education LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 SM - 1814-0556 T1 - Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town TI - Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8860 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/8860
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHodgkinson-Williams C, Gray E. Degrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Town. International Journal of Education and Development using ICT. 2009; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8860.en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of the West Indiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDean's Office: CHEDen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyCentre for Higher Education Developmenten_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unporteden_ZA
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/en_ZA
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Education and Development using ICTen_ZA
dc.source.urihttp://www.editlib.org/p/42198/en_ZA
dc.subjectopen educationen_ZA
dc.subjectOpen Educational Resourcesen_ZA
dc.subjectopen contenten_ZA
dc.subjecte-learningen_ZA
dc.subjectopen educational processesen_ZA
dc.subjectopen pedagogyen_ZA
dc.subjectdegrees of opennessen_ZA
dc.subjectInformation and Communication Technologies (ICTs)en_ZA
dc.subjecthigher educationen_ZA
dc.titleDegrees of openness: the emergence of open educational resources at the University of Cape Townen_ZA
dc.typeJournal Articleen_ZA
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