Researching Resistance to Open Education Resource Contribution.
Aims to ascertain whether Engestro?m?s activity theory and its principle of contradictions is a sufficiently versatile and insightful lens to investigate non-participation of OER contribution. Activity theory was found to be useful for framing the literature and three interviews with University of Cape Town (UCT) academics and for surfacing some of the constraints in the system. An Activity... more
2010-2011 African Health OER Network. Phase 2 Evaluation: Consolidation and Sustainability. Nairobi: OER Africa, A SAIDE Initiative.
Exploring institutional experiences, to establish how the African Health OER Network project was being consolidated, and to start assessing issues of sustainability. more
Explaining the relations between culture, structure and agency in lecturers? contribution and non-contribution to Open Educational Resources in a Higher Education Institution. PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town.
Addresses the question: How do the relations between culture, structure and agency influence lecturers' contribution and non-contribution of OER in a higher education institution? more
An Emerging Typology for Analysing OER Initiatives. In Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact. Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education,
A typology for analysing OER initiatives using four main categories: creation, organisation, dissemination and utilisation, and 18 sub categories to examine and analyse each initiative, with each sub category having a number of properties and possible dimensions. more
UCT, Fort Hare or UNISA: Which university is OER ready?
Looks at OER Readiness in three South African universities. Presented at the Teaching and Learning Conference, 30 March 2016. Cape Town, South Africa. more
Appraising the transformative power of OERs for learner-centred teaching at the University of Mauritius. In Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education, 16-18 April 2012. Cambridge, UK.
Shows that academics at the University of Mauritius access OER courseware, but could do with more training programs. In terms of teaching transformation, academics are willing to 'step down' and acknowledge students with more 'power' and responsibility for learning but also allowing them to evaluate their learning. more
Utilising Open Educational Resources (OER) in Support of Curriculum Transformation at Africa Nazarene University
This OER Africa presentation, made at the ALARA 9th Action Learning Research Congress in November 2015, discusses the participatory action research approach that is being used at the Africa Nazarene University (ANU). more
The Roles of Libraries and Information Professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiatives: Survey Report
The study focuses on the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in open educational resources (OER) initiatives. This research study contributes to the current Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer] [1], an initiative by JISC and the HEA whose objective is to promote the... more
Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in US Higher Education
This online report from the Babson Survey Research Group is an output on a survey of academic leaders between 2009 - 201 on their knowledge, use and opinion of OER. In addition, surveys were conducted asking faculty in higher education and academic technology administrators their opinions of these resources. Finally, the survey of faculty investigated their use of social media also asked for... more
Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
In this report the Committee for Economic Development examines higher education through the lens of openness. Their goal was to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information?its creation, analysis, and transmission and the development of the skills... more
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