University of Cape Town OpenContent - Open Educational Resources Directory Launch

Editor's Notes

• #5: Image 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/ Image 2: http://veja.abril.com.br/imagem/professorantenado.jpg Image 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/stylianosm/3706684606/ Image 4: http://www.flickr.com/photos/langwitches/3460307056/
• #6: <div xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordigraells/2098331968/"><a rel="cc:attributionURL" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordigraells/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordigraells/</a> / <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a></div>
• #10: http://openaccessenvironmentalist.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/what-is-open-access-2/ http://www.plos.org/
• #19: The Open Source Software movement led the way in showcasing the value of openness and the ‘architecture of participation’ (O’Reilly 2003) which allows for a real free market of ideas, in which anyone can put forward a proposed solution to a problem; it becomes adopted, if at all, by acclamation and the organic spread of its usefulness. OER 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)
• #23: flickr.com/photos/11461909@N06/3925035856/
• #24: 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).
• #27: http://oli.web.cmu.edu/openlearning/
• #31: http://oyc.yale.edu/
• #34: http://ocwus.us.es/ocwus
• #35: http://ocw.korea.edu/ocw/
• #37: http://khub.itesm.mx/es/
• #38: http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
• #41: Academic Earth which aggregates academic videos from various institutions around the globe (http://academicearth.org/)
• #42: http://www.opencontent.org.uk/steeple/index.php And http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/Main_Page
• #50: Led by Centre for Educational Technology, CHED Funded by Shuttleworth Foundation Jan 2009 – Feb 2010, total value R800,000 Activities: Survey existing T&L resources with potential to be OERs Provide support to OER creators Facilitate the publication of 5 exemplar OERs Create an OER Directory for UCT Document the OER UCT process as a case study Promote longer-term sustainability of the initiative
• #52: Our project is responsible for creating a directory to list and describe open educational resources here at UCT. In addition to have shared materials on websites such as slideshare, it is important to have them catalogued and indexed here at UCT. UCT academics will be able to list and describe their online resources in the local UCT directory – this will automatically lead to an entry in the OER Commons, OER Africa and other international content directories. The listings will include appropriate metadata which will lead to discoverability through search engines. The directory will also ensure we can answer 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?
• #53: We stumbled upon open resources published by Ed Rybicki completely by accident. Ed took his own initiative and published his Introduction to Molecular Virology course online in 2007 – which technically makes him the first to publish an open resource at UCT. Ed’s material has since been used by various teachers and students at Universities in Brazil, Australia, and throughout South Africa. And has led to alliances with universities in the UK. Ed says - “I have benefited enormously from interaction with people who helped pioneer this sort of thing overseas; my presentation of material improved, and I added things like a blog to interact more immediately with students and interested parties.”
• #54: Our first resource was Dr. Kevin Williams from the Centre for Higher Education Development. Kevin saw a void in the literature around tutoring in HE specifically in the South African context. Kevin decided to publish the book as OER as it satisfied his own ethical responsibility as he himself learned the most about tutoring from his own tutoring experience. Kevin says “I cant thank all the students and staff who taught me, but I can pass that on.” Interest has been expressed from publishers as well as other institutions to use the manual in their own contexts. Kevin has expressed a real need for statistics in identifying where and when his material gets accessed and used.
• #55: Prof Leslie London was interviewed during the Opening Scholarship project and their iterations towards openness described in Case Study 10. This resource was technically “open” as it was freely available on the internet, but not covered by suitable licensing which reserved some of their rights.
• #56: The Facilitating Online manual created by authors in the Centre for Educational Technology was created and made use of the first externally open VULA site Now, as this was developed in the Centre for Educational Technology it was bound to be open from the start ;)
• #57: Jean Paul van Belle from the Department of Information Sciences has published three resources; the NGO ICT e-Readiness Self Assessment Tool as well as: Two online textbooks - Office XP for Business and Discovering Information Systems An Exploratory Approach - both of which were written specifically for the South African context. Jean Paul has been a firm supporter of the Open Source software and Creative Commons licensing models for some time. He is happy to share his textbooks, specifically because he knows how difficult it can be for cash strapped students to buy expensive textbooks. JP has also received requests from other universities for permission to incorporate his text into other classrooms.
• #58: http://www.slideshare.net/mpaskevi/open-teaching-in-a-digital-age