OER – Teaching and Learning Materials at UCT

Cheryl Hodgkinson-WilliamsCentre for Educational Technology

University of Cape TownSeminar on Open Learning in South African Universities

23 July 2013

UCT’s involvement in OER

Research project on open access, OER & “open community” (Shuttleworth)

DVC signs Cape Town Open Education Declaration

UCT OER implementation project & Health OER project (Shuttleworth, Hewlett)

Launch of UCT OpenContent directory & Scholarly Communication in Africa Project (IDRC)

OpenUCT initiative & VC signs Berlin declaration & small OER grants (Mellon)

OER grants for staff & students and re-development of UCT OpenContent directory (UCT, Mellon)

OER adaptation team, international research on OER in the Global & open data (UCT, IDRC)

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/

Barriers & enablements to OER adoption

Organisational

Vision Management

Champions Incentives - grants

No policyNo rewardsNo income

stream

Technical

UCT OpenContent directory

IP Advice Graphic design

Limited technical expertise

Academic

Willingness Collaboration

Research

Lack of timeLack of design

skill

Processes and mechanisms to enable the adoption of OER

International

• Research on current adoption

• Research on current needs

• Improve metatdata• Support for OER

aggregators• Better ways to deal

with derivative work

• Coherence of learning programme

• Accreditation and transfer

National

• Policy aligned with revenue stream

• Collaboration • Lobbying and

brokering relationships between other “open” stakeholders – open access, open data, open science

• National “referatory” to aid decision-making

Institutional

• Policy and strategy development

• Recognition in appraisal process

• IP advice• Technical support• Design support• Grants• Management of

OER• Liaison with other

open initiatives

Departmental

• Workload planning• Identification of

senior students to assist with OER adaptation

New OER Book on OER – in 3 languages!

http://oer.kmi.open.ac.uk/

Inter-institutional collaboration – UCT, UWC, SU, CPUT

http://www.uwc.ac.za/TandL/Pages/CHEC-Courses.aspx

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Prepared by: Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

Contact: cheryl.hodgkinson-williams@uct.ac.za

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