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Institutionalizing OER at the University of Cape Town

by Michael Paskevicius

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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 2010 Michael 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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