Institutionalizing OER at the University of Cape Town
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Open Teaching in a Digital Age: Becoming Global Scholars OER at the University of Cape Town eLearning Africa 2010 Michael
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This presentation will introduce the exciting terrain of OER, identify the social, technical, legal, and financial motivators that are enabling the movement, and demonstrate how it has the potential to change academic practice and create new avenues for collaboration and feedback. He will argue that in adopting and familiarising oneself with OER practice academics can become ‘global scholars’, embracing Web 2.0 tools and open licensing systems which have the potential to enhance and increase the reach of their knowledge. The presentation will detail an African university’s journey towards institutionalizing support for open educational resources. The talk intends to provide a base with which OER advocates can encourage African academic leaders to embrace openness and to highlight some of the benefits not only for the global community but also for the institution, students and contributing academic.
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Open Teaching in a Digital Age: Becoming Global Scholars
OER at the University of Cape Town
eLearning Africa 2010Michael Paskevicius
OER: An Alternative Conception
• Open educational resources are the openly licensed and freely accessible teaching and learning resources created to support and enhance the process of teaching
• What if all resources created for teaching and learning at universities were made available by default as OER?
Why and why now?
Opportunities at UCT
• OER UCT Project – Audit of potential open materials – Creation of an OER directory– Advocacy and awareness
• Health OER– Focused on materials development
Result of Institutional Audit
• Many UCT academics already sharing
• Need to organize the already shared content from the university
• Sharing and growing the idea of ‘openness’
Software Development Process
• Relationship to Learning Management System (LMS)
• Software selection process
Professor Jean-Paul Van Belle
Matumo Ramafikeng
Strategy for Sustainability
• User able to manage own resources and profile
• ‘Pride of authorship’ model of OER publishing
• No separate business unit designated to clear content
• OER support will continue from the Centre for Educational Technology
Challenges and Lessons Learned
• Academics are sharing, but not always in an organized or optimized way
• Academics can lead the way in demonstrating how the internet can be used as a resource
• Teaching materials are generally undervalued
• Requires strategies to incorporate the production and sharing of OER as part of the universities ‘usual business’
• Digital teaching materials benefit from being ‘born-OER’
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Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius [email protected]
OpenContent Directory: http://opencontent.uct.ac.zaOER UCT project blog: http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct
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