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
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
A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER)
A summary of key issues in OER, an analysis of those issues, and a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about speci c areas of relevance to OER. more
Deconstructing OER and its Potential for African Higher Education.
Outlines the importance of OER in the African context and sets out a 'Theory of Change', for OER which begins by identifying a clear set of specific problems more
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
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
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
Factors shaping lecturers' adoption of OER at three South African universities. In Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South.
Investigates lecturers? adoption or non-adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) at three universities in South Africa, seeking to understand their motivations and practices regarding OER and the factors influencing their OER decision-making. more
An OER framework, heuristic and lens: Tools for understanding lecturers? adoption of OER.
Examines three new tools ? a framework, an heuristic and a lens ? for analysing lecturers? adoption of OER in higher educational settings. more
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