Health OER @ UCT

Gregory.Doyle@uct.ac.zaNicole.Southgate@uct.ac.za

(based on http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/openness-at-the-university-of-cape-town)

Teaching at UCT

• Residential

• Face to face

• Almost no distance ed

• Not designed for non-traditional courses

• Funding subsidy for headcount & throughput (not curriculum or content)

• CHED active, strong academic development

Context

• OER part of a broader open movement

• Open access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access

• Institutional context and culture critical to how OER and open agenda play out

Open access E-learningOER

Champions @ institutional level

• At institutional level– DVC signs Cape Town

Declaration (2008)– VC signs Berlin Declaration

(2011)

• Work enabled by new UCT IP Policy– Specifically addresses issues relating to the creation

of OER resources and the licensing processes to be followed.

– Expressly states the support for publication of materials under Creative Commons licenses

Champions @ school level

• Health Sciences Dean

• Practitioners / Senior Prof

• In our experience of our cultural context– Senior level support symbolic– Vertical relationships do not cause change per se,

only when actual projects in place (eg HS)– Champions work best in horizontal networked

relationships, building communities of practice

Harvesting OER

• Individual mentality and perception– Institution’s image will be enhanced– Department’s profile will be raised– OER development enhances their CVs and appraisal

• Building awareness (workshops, seminars, blog, champions)

http://www.a2newtech.org/members/36678032/

http://www.deta.up.ac.za/archive2005/speakers.htm

http://www.hope.edu/academic/language/french/newsletterS06.html

Harvesting OER

• OER reps

• Database of interested parties

• Maximum flexibility & enabling support

http://www.dhrs.uct.ac.za/news/?id=8360&t=mp

http://www.healthedu.uct.ac.za/elearning/healthoer/

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/education-development-unit-fhs/2012/05/30/discover-learning-material-and-free-images

http://www.slideshare.net/ShihaamD/finding-open-stuff

Faculty contributions

Faculty contributions February 2010- March 2012

Centre for Higher Educa-

tion Devel-opment

24%

Commerce8%

Engineering 4%

Health Sciences16%

Humanities34%

Law3%

Science11%

Health OER @ UCT

Gregory.Doyle@uct.ac.zaNicole.Southgate@uct.ac.za