A Look at Open Access in South Africa: a case study of researchers publishing practices: an analysis of the top 20 journals (both open access and propriety at one university). Paper presented at the Open Education Global Consortium 2015.
A case study of journal publishing at one South African university (the University of Cape Town) to identify existing journal publishing practices in terms of open access. Provides the springboard for considering the implications ? both positive and negative ? of global open access trends for South African ? and other ? research and researchers. more
Information access needs of satellite campuses in Kenya. Can OER close the gap? The case of Moi University, Nairobi Campus
Case study aimed at obtaining the experiences of faculty and students of Moi University, Nairobi Campus in accessing information resources for teaching, learning and research. Examines background information regarding knowledge societies and the role of higher education in society, done with a view to exploring the potential of OER in enhancing access to teaching, learning and research... more
The AVU Open Educational Resources (OER) architecture for Higher Education in Africa: Discussion paper. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co?operation and Development.
Aims to generate a dialogue around our shared desire to see a collaborative and coordinated strategy for the creation, organization, dissemination and utilization of OERs in general and in Africa in particular. more
Education. Pretoria: Government Communication and Information System.
Examines implementation of OER and technology in the education system in South Africa. more
Insights from the Health OER Inter-Institutional Project. Distance Education, 32(2), 213-227.
Draws upon data from the various evaluations of the African Helath OER Network project as a basis for generating understandings on initiating and sustaining OER in African contexts. more
Revisiting the challenges for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of the Open Educational Resources movement.
Investigates the key challenges to Higher Education (HE) in SSA and identifies those areas in which OER could contribute significantly to finding solutions to those challenges. more
Sustaining OER at the University of Cape Town: Free, but not cheap. OpenEd 2010 Conference, 2?4 November 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
Reviews the range of sustainability strategies of OER mentioned in literature, plots the results of a small-scale OER sustainability survey against these strategies and explains how these findings and other papers on OER initiatives were used to inform an in-house workshop at UCT to deliberate the future strategy for the sustainability of OER at UCT. more
Open Educational Resources and pedagogical practices in African Higher Education: A perspective from the ROER4D Project. Keynote presentation at Transform 2015 Colloquium, 6-10 April 2015.
Explains how the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project is using desktop regional reviews, cross-regional surveys, cross regional and country case studies, action research studies and focused impact studies to establish in what ways, and under what circumstances the adoption of OER can impact upon a range of educational aspects. Focuses specifically on... more
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: implications for Higher Education Institutions.
The article concludes that, in order to foster a greater uptake or more institution-wide diffusion of use of emerging technologies, institutional opinion leaders need to purposefully create an enabling environment by giving recognition to and communicating with change agents, and developing policies that will encourage institutional-wide engagement with emerging technologies. more
Framework to understand postgraduate students? adaption of academics? teaching materials as OER. In A. Okada (2012), Open Educational Resources and Social Networks: Co-Learning and Professional Development.
Addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of OER contribution, namely academics? lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as stand-alone Open Educational Resources (OER). It describes how masters? students, tutors and interns at the University of Cape Town have been engaged to support the innovative practice of... more
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