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
Degrees of Openness: The emergence of Open Educational Resources at the University of Cape Town. International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 5(5), 101-116.
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. 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
Finding Your Way in the World of Work. Activity Guide for Office Administration: Level 2
This activity guide is the end result of a journey into materials development that started at the beginning of 2005. Some 30 educators from the FET colleges participated in a series of workshops which were aimed at developing a core team of people in the Limpopo province who could support any initiatives in their own colleges to develop suitable materials for NQF aligned learning programmes... more
Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources
This study was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning as an input to the World OER Congress organized by UNESCO in June 2012. The authors, Neil Butcher and Sarah Hoose situate the contribution of OER in the wider context of the challenges facing education at all levels in an era of economic stringency. They relate OER to the realities of the teaching-learning process, arguing that... more
An Institutional Approach to OER Implementation at the University of South Africa (UNISA)
The University of South Africa (UNISA) is a mega open and distance learning (ODL) university with more than 400,000 students in South Africa and around the world. UNISA committed to the implementation of OER within the university by incorporating support for OER into all relevant policies and processes. This is seen as the critical enabling factor. Moreover, as an open university, it was... more
OER and MOOCs at the National Open University of Nigeria
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is the second largest university in Africa with more than 180,000 students. The OER project at NOUN was initially motivated in response to the 2012 UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Paris Declaration on OER. Specifically, NOUN referred to the section that encouraged government-funded materials to be released under an open licence and made... more
Digital Fluency Course: Module 5 - Storage and Access of Digital Resources
This module aims to expand an understanding of digital storage and access with regard to a variety of files types and enabling platforms. It will hone skills in storing and retrieving digital resources using various technologies. This module is intended to address both academic and administrative skills: these skills can be applied in research, teaching and learning, and administration. With... more
An Open Knowledge Primer for OER Africa (Revised)
Open licensing, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Access came first. Now, increasingly, academics and researchers are making Open Science and Open Data integral to discussions about scholarly communication. Rather than segmenting them, many practitioners use the phrase “Open Knowledge.” Much of this primer is focused on open access although open licensing, open science, and OER are... more
Pedagogical Transformation
In this presentation to the 2016 OER Africa Convening, Professor Ken Harley talks about pedagogical transformation. more
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