365 days of openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town
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2013
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Athabasca University Press
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University of Cape Town
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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 in a textbook or study guide. With the growth in digital media, libraries have been extending their curation of scholarly resources to include electronic journals, digital books and reference guides, broadening access to these beyond the physical walls of the library. While the growth in digital technology has prompted academics to create their own customised and contextually specific digital media for use in their teaching in the form of PowerPoint presentations, manuals, handbooks, guides, media resources and websites, these resources are most often stored on personal hard drives, on departmental servers or within password-protected institutional learning management systems. Access to these digital materials is usually limited to registered students undertaking specific courses within specific institutions and usually only disseminated by individual academics or departments.
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Hodgkinson-Williams, C., Paskevicious, M., Cox, G., Shaikh, S., Leep-Pan, S & Czerniewicz, L. (2013.) 365 Days of Openness of OERs at the University of Cape Town, in McGreal, R; Kinuthia, W; Marshall, S; and McNamara T (Eds) Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice, UNESCO, Athabasca University Press and Commonwealth of Learning.