The global open education community has defined March 5 – 10th as Open Education Week! Open Education Week is a global, community event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially through
Last blog post for the year 2011! Someone asked me recently; UCT OpenContent has grown quite significantly over the past year (we now have 164 OER’s shared from UCT!), where are all of these resources hosted? Since we don’t
The OpenContent UCT project at the University of Cape Town tries to encourage academics to create resources which can be shared and reused by their colleagues as well as other educators or self-learners. These resources, shared openly on the internet,
Today we have a guest post from one of our OER contributors, Veronica Mitchell. Veronica shares the vision behind her wonderful resource the Human Rights Key and why she chose to share the resource as an open educational resource. You can access
We are pleased to share the news that the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town Dr. Max Price has signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Scientific Knowledge. This marks another milestone in UCT’s move towards open practices
On Sunday I attended a workshop which previewed the forthcoming UNESCO Open Educational Resources (OER) Platform. The workshop was hosted within the framework of the Highway Africa and the Pan African Conference on Access to Information (PACAI) conferences also happening
Teaching open source in South Africa image by opensourceway shared under aCC-BY-ND license We have noticed a great interest by students in the omission of open education sites from the UCT student internet quota. This initiative enables UCT students to
A hearty welcome back to students and staff! There is a vibrant energy on the campus as people start trickling back and registration kicks off. We wanted to share one of most recent popular resources, the Guide for First Year
Nathan Yergler from Creative Commons has created an interactive visualization representing the three conceptual layers of a Creative Commons License. I presume that many people do not realize that when they use a Creative Commons they are in fact getting:
I’ve just finished publishing our latest open educational resource here at UCT, a DVD that was created in the Centre for Intercultural and Diversity Studies (iNCUDISA). The DVD contains a short 8 minute trailer for the upcoming film Black Adam: