uct opencontent 1 year anniversary

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!

http://www.oercommons.org/courses/guide-for-tutors


Tony Carr, Shaheeda Jaffer & Jeanne SmutsCentre for Educational Technology (CET)

Facilitating Online

Published: May 6, 2009

Format: PDF + Companion website

Accessed 331 times!


Catherine Hutchings Illustrations by Stacey StentCentre for Higher Education Development

Studying at University: A guide for first year students

Published: February 2011



Mark MassynConstruction Economics Management

• Introduction to Project Planning

Published: November 2010

Format: PDF

Accessed 103 times!


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!


Tim Noakes Sports Science Institute of South Africa

• The body is willing but the mind is weak. Or is it the other way around?


Format: Audio lecture

Accessed 164 times!


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


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!


Maurice Kibel, Lori Lake,Shirley Pendlebury & Charmaine Smith

• South African Child Gauge 2009/2010

Published: August 2010



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!


Matumo RamafikengOccupational Therapy

• Occupation Focused Conceptual Frameworks


Format: HTML and various resources Accessed 638 times!


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!


Dr Pallo Jordan, Dr Shamil Jeppie, Dr Ibrahim Saleh, Prof Abdulkader TayobCentre for Contemporary Islam

• Revolution in Egypt and the Middle East


Format: Audio lectures

Accessed 58 times!


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].

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=408300