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UCT OpenContent One Year Anniversary
4 March 2011
What is “Open Content”?Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials (usually digital) that can be:
Shared
Shared freely and openly
for …
Used
Improved
Redistributed
… use by anyone to … … adapt / repurpose/
improve under some type of license in order
to …
… redistribute and share
again.
The concept of Open Content …
• … is based on the philosophical view of
knowledge as a collective social product and the desirability of making it a social property (Prasad & Ambedkar cited in Downes 2007:1).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordigraells/2098331968/
Open Source Software in the Open Movement
The paradox of sharing
The OECD reflects that "although learning resources are often considered as key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing digital learning resources over the Internet openly and without cost, as open educational resources (OER) (2007:9).
Culture of competition
Culture of contribution
OER Champion: MIT
OER Champion: Rice University
OER Champion: Open University
University of Michigan
Delft University of Technology
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Keio University
Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
OpenCourseWare Consortium
Aggregating content: OER Commons
Aggregating video: Academic Earth
Collecting OER in Africa: OER Africa
Opening Scholarship Project
(2007-2008)
Open Educational Resources
Open Access
Open Community
OER UCT (March 2009 –
Feb 2010)
Open Educational Resources
Advocating openness (2009)
Open Access
Health OER (2009-2010)
Open Educational Resources in
Health
History of UCT OpenContent
Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation
Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation
Funded by the Hewlett Foundation
Opening Scholarship projectJuly 2007- Dec 2008
UCT signs Cape Town Open Education Declaration April 2008
OER UCT projectFeb 2009-Feb 2010
OER UCT project blog
The UCT OpenContent directory
– Lists and describes the growing collection of open educational content at UCT
– Links this collection to international platforms and act as a mechanism for increasing the visibility of UCT-produced open content
– Facilitates reporting around questions such as:• Which OERs have been published by person X in my
department?• What OER content is available from my department?• How many OERs are in the UCT Collection?• To what extent is my department’s OER output promoting us
globally?
UCT OpenContent: Contributor
Ed RybickiMolecular and Cell Biology
Introduction to Molecular Virology A Manual of Online Molecular Biology Techniques
Publishing: Since 2007
Format: Website/HTMLAccessed 1301 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Jean-Paul van BelleDepartment of Information Systems
NGO ICT and e-Readiness Self-Assessment Tool Discovering Information Systems Office XP for BusinesseMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online MarketingThe Internet Super-User Textbook
Publishing: Since 2009
Format: PDF Accessed 1548 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributor
Kevin WilliamsHigher & Adult Education Studies & Development Unit (HAESDU)
Guide For Tutors In Disciplines In The Humanities And Social Sciences
Published: March 26, 2009
Format: PDFLink
Accessed 248 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Tony Carr, Shaheeda Jaffer & Jeanne SmutsCentre for Educational Technology (CET)
Facilitating Online
Published: May 6, 2009
Format: PDF + Companion website
Accessed 331 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Catherine Hutchings Illustrations by Stacey StentCentre for Higher Education Development
Studying at University: A guide for first year students
Published: February 2011
Format: PDF Accessed 1636 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Mark MassynConstruction Economics Management
• Introduction to Project Planning
Published: November 2010
Format: PDF
Accessed 103 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven and Leslie LondonSchool of Public Health and Family Medicine
• Training Trainers for Health andHuman Rights
Published: April 14, 2009
Accessed 288 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Tim Noakes Sports Science Institute of South Africa
• The body is willing but the mind is weak. Or is it the other way around?
Published: February 2010
Format: Audio lecture
Accessed 164 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Michael Paskevicius & Michelle WillmersCentre for Educational Technology
Open Teaching in a Digital Age
Published: November 2009
Format: PowerPoint on SlideShare
1283 views in 1.5 years!
http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi/open-teaching-in-a-digital-age
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Travis Noakes Media Studies
Researching Online Portfolio Social Networks at High School
Get Ready For Abundance Culture At High School
Improve your Online Presence
A private high school's staff responses to a Web 2.0 and "abundant digital media" presentation
Publishing: Since early 2010
Format: PowerPoint on SlideShareAccessed 451 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Maurice Kibel, Lori Lake,Shirley Pendlebury & Charmaine Smith
• South African Child Gauge 2009/2010
Published: August 2010
Format: PDF Accessed 156 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Timm Hoffman, Simon Todd, Zolile Ntshona, Stephen TurnerPlant Conservation Unit
• Land Degradation in South Africa
Published: January 2011
Format: HTML and various resources
Accessed 25 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Matumo RamafikengOccupational Therapy
• Occupation Focused Conceptual Frameworks
Published: February 2010
Format: HTML and various resources Accessed 638 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Lara Skelly Library
• Finding IPOs on Reuters
• Evidence Based Management Library Guide
• Using Global Insight • How to chart variance on Datastream • Evaluating websites
Publishing: Since June 2010
Format: Presentations and websites Accessed 694 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
Dr Pallo Jordan, Dr Shamil Jeppie, Dr Ibrahim Saleh, Prof Abdulkader TayobCentre for Contemporary Islam
• Revolution in Egypt and the Middle East
Published: February 2011
Format: Audio lectures
Accessed 58 times!
UCT OpenContent: Contributors
David Aschman, Andy Buffler, Angus Comrie, Professor Peter Dunsby, Roger Fearick, Indresan Govender, Michael Malahe, Angus Morrison, Andre Peshier Physics
• Three first year courses • Four second year courses
Published: December 2010
Format: Various course resources
Accessed 575 times!
UCT joins the OCWC March 2010Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and
Michelle Willmers submit the application to OCWC
Open Access Week 2010 at the University of Cape Town
OER at UCT: From Project to Portfolio March 2010
A busy year with lots of fun!!
Conclusion
‘Today, a confluence of events is creating the perfect storm for significantly advancing education. With a growing inventory of openly available educational tools and resources, and with an increasingly engaged and connected community, transformative opportunities for education abound. (Iiyoshi & Kumar 2008:2)
Thanks to• Prof Jo Beall• Prof Danie Visser• Prof Martin Hall• Eve Gray• Laura Czerniewicz• OER UCT team
– Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams– Stephen Marquard– Michelle Willmers– Michael Paskevicius– Roger Brown– David Horwitz– Shihaam Donnelly
– Nolu Tyam– Ermien van Pletzen
• Telamenta• Health OER team
– Greg Doyle• University of Michigan
– Kathleen Ludewig
• OER Commons• Creative Commons SA
– Tobias Schonwetter– Andrew Rens
• University of the Western Cape– Philipp Schmidt
• Shuttleworth Foundation– Karien Bezuidenhout
Thanks to the contributors
References• Attwood, R (2009) Get it out in the open. Online:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300 24 September
• Downes S (2007) Models for sustainable open educational resources. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects 3: 29-44.
• Iiyoshi, T & Kumar, MSV (Eds) (2008) Opening Up Education: The collective advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• O’Reilly, T (2003) The Architecture of Participation. Available online: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017 (Checked 4 October 2009)
• Yuan, L, MacNeill, S and Kraan W (2008). Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education. JISC CETIS. Available at http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf [Accessed 4 February 2009].