This document discusses Open Educational Resources (OER) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). It provides background on UWC's Centre for Innovative Educational and Communication Technologies (CIECT), which drives the university's open courseware and OER project. CIECT provides support for faculty to author and publish open content. The document outlines UWC's progressive open content policy and lists several departments that have courses available on UWC's open courseware site, covering topics such as Java, PHP, biodiversity, constitutional law, and epidemiology. Interviews with faculty found that they welcome the OER initiative but that usability of the site could be improved. Next steps proposed include dedicating HR resources to OER

1. Open Educational Resources
By CIECT
Fundile Nkunge
Accra 2012
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2. Centre for Innovative Educational and
Communications Technologies:
– Instructional Design team
– ICT staff Development team
– Digital Academic Literacy
– Digital Media Studio team
– Material development team
– Research team
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3. Background
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4. Background
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5. OER
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
Educational materials and resources
Freely and openly for anyone to use.
 Licenses-enable to re-mix, improve and
redistribute
 Attribution non-commercial
 Attribution share alike
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6. OER components
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Include:
 Learning content: full courses, course materials, content modules,
learning objects, journals.
 Tools: software to support the creation delivery, use and
improvement of open learning content
 Implementation resources: e.g. Intellectual property licenses, design-
principles, content localisation
Human factor: continuous support for faculty
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7. OCW & OER at UWC
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The institution has a progressive open content
policy
 guidelines for publication
 copyright materials owned by the university
 free and open content licenses
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8. Centre for Innovative, Educational
and Communication Technologies
(CIECT) Support
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The free courseware, OER project at UWC is
driven by the UWC’s Centre for Innovative,
Educational and Communication Technologies
(CIECT)
o Buy-in
o Get content from the lectures
o Authoring of pages
o Release content for publication.
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9. CIECT’s Continuous Support
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 http://eteaching.uwc.ac.za
http://opencourseware.uwc.ac.za
 UWC one of 1st university in Africa to join OCWC
 Online learning culture
 Changing minds
 OER culture OF sharing – timeous- continuous
support to change mindsets
 Continuous Marketing
 Continuous support
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10. OCW & OER at UWC
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 Currently UWC has seven departments which have
courses currently on the UWC free courseware site.
Economics and Management Sciences(EMS)
Information Systems (Dr G Hearn)
Java Platform
Introduction to PHP
Sciences (Dr. Richard Knight)
 Biodiversity & Conservation Biology
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11. OCW & OER at UWC
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 Law Faculty (Prof. Pierre de Vos & Prof. Patricia Lenaghan)
 CL202 - Constitutional Law
 European Union Law LLM module
 South African Law Bill of rights
 School of Public Health (Prof Neil Myburgh and Prof
Debra Jackson)
 881520 - Measuring Health and Disease 1: Introduction to
Epidemiology
 SPH727 - Managing Human Resources for Health (Prof. Uta
Lehmann)
 Community Health Sciences ( Lorraine Fakude)
 NUR821 - Curriculum Development for Health Professional Education
 NUR823 - Teaching, Learning and Assessment methods, Second
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Java Platform Introduction
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13. EMS Information Systems
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PHP
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14. Sciences Faculty
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Biodiversity and conservation Biology
BCB706 - Conservation Biology
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15. Law Faculty
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CL202 - Constitutional Law
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16. Law Faculty
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European Union Law LLM module
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17. Law Faculty
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South African Law Bill of rights
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18. School of Public Health
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881520 - Measuring Health and Disease 1: Introduction to
Epidemiology
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19. School of Public Health
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SPH727 - Managing Human Resources for Health
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20. Community and Health Sciences (CHS)
Faculty
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NUR821 - Curriculum Development for Health Professional
Education
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21. Community and Health Sciences (CHS)
Faculty
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NUR823 - Teaching, Learning and Assessment methods, Second
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22. Impact of OER at UWC
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Interviews of lecturers: An analysis
 welcome the initiative
 They believe it is a good initiative that need to be
supported
 Even though some are mainly using UWC
Learning Management Systems (elearning and
eteaching); they are willing to contribute and
share their course material
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23. Responses from lecturers
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“ I am hoping that it would be helpful for those
using them in terms of educational and research
support”.
“ I was requested to upload my course on the
OER site so that many people could access it
freely”
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24. Responses from lecturers
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“We are currently reviewing our modules for the
second Semester and we are planning to offer
similar content as short courses via the Division
of Life Long Learning I plan to have the
students to use OER more effectively by then.
We must just not give up ”
“The layout of the site is not user friendly as
compared to our eTeaching and eLearning
sites, furthermore its more likely to benefit the
outsiders than our students”
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25. NEXT STEP
• Deputy Vice Chancellor to commit HR
resources
– Dedicated person for OER
– Using colloquiums to market OER
– Using Learning Management Systems
Champions
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Thank you
Enkosi