Challenges and Opportunities for UCT OpenContent

1. OpenUCT
&
Challenges
Opportunities
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

2. OpenUCT opportunities
three major stakeholders
UCT
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3. OpenUCT opportunities
Support Afropolitan
Initiative
Improve visibility & provide a
showcase for UCT’s research &
education
Build on UCT’s reputation as a
world-class university
Ensure effective digital
curation
UCT Create a lifelong
connection with alumni
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4. OpentUCT opportunities
three major stakeholders
UCT
Students
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5. OpenUCT opportunities
Increase collaboration
Provide an integrated &
student-centric academic
experience
Exposure to thought leaders
Break down social &
political barriers
Able to access & audit
courses
Students Allows students’ freedom for:
innovation, customization, intellectual
risk taking
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6. OpenUCT opportunities
three major stakeholders
UCT
Academics Students
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7. OpenUCT opportunities
Provide opportunity for
knowledge retention
Allow research to be available to a
wider audience
Promote collaboration
amongst peers
Create a teaching track
record
AcademicsDisseminate academic
knowledge to remote areas
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8. OpenUCT challenges
Three major stakeholders
UCT
Academics Students
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9. Challenges:
Require extensive
Enhance divide of Digital
education & buy-in
Elite/Stranger
Ensure all resources &
metadata meet OpenUCT Appropriate time &
standards
place usage
Ensure project
sustainability Assumption of 24 hour
Require large scale availability
funding
Raise questions on
institutional
ownership
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10. Challenges:
Require an extensive
organizational Fragmentation
change amongst peers
Overcoming Resistance to changing
technological & education paradigms
geographic barriers Current academic
Renew awareness on publishing models not
plagiarism & student aligned with open concepts
engagement Create intellectual
property rights
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11. 4c’s Curation
to successful
implementation
Case Building
Community
Content
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12. case study:
Academics
University of Malawi:
Kamuzu College of Nursing
Challenges
Keys to Success
‘ground zero’ OER
Full support from librarian
Limited IT dept.
Localize project
Time for team Faculty resistance unless
Power supply benefits are clearly identified
Ensure project sustainability
Ongoing assessments & sharing
results with stakeholders
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13. thank you:
Kelsey Wiens
kelseywiens@gmail.com
@spandexnerd
Images with thanks from Michael Konstantynowicz, & CreativeCommonsSA
Content with thanks from OpencoursewareConsortium OpenContent UCT,
Laura Czerniewicz, Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Michael Paskevicius
Tuesday, June 21, 2011