I often get asked, How do I find openly licensed images that I can use in my teaching materials, which I can also use towards the creation of OER? Openly licensed image repositories are quite commonplace these days. With a
Integrating social media for classroom engagement
by Stanford EdTech Does this look familiar? How can we see this as an opportunity rather than a problem? On Tuesday last week I went to a talk from Prof Vivian Forssman; Director of the Learning and Technology Services (LTS) team
Celebrating One Year of Open Education Practice at UCT
We celebrated our one year anniversary on Friday afternoon in the African Studies Gallery at the University of Cape Town. It turned into a lovely affair with many contributors and other community members joining to celebrate the first year of
OpenContent Celebratory Tea – Meet the OER UCT Team
During our monthly tea we officially celebrated the completion of the OER UCT Project. Fortunately, the project shall continue on its trajectory, supporting and advising academics on sharing open educational resources, as we have funding to continue our work to
OpenContent Search – What are people looking for?
I created the wordle above using the search terms which have been submitted to the UCT OpenContent website. The larger the word, the more often it is being searched in the directory. I find it fascinating to see what
Join us to celebrate UCT OpenContent…One Year On
Open tools, open source, open education and open mindsets. 365 days of openness + 673 ways of sharing = 1 goal of open education for all In February 2011 we celebrated our one year anniversary of OpenContent UCT. We have
First two weeks of OpenContent at UCT
Well it’s been two weeks since we launched the new UCT OpenContent website. We have had numerous visits and have generated quite a bit of buzz in the UCT community as well as around the world. We are still tweaking
University of Cape Town OpenContent OER Directory is Now Live
The Centre for Educational Technology is pleased to announce the launch of the OpenContent open educational resource directory at the University of Cape Town. The directory is the culmination of a years worth of project work, funded by the Shuttleworth
Introducing the Open Attribute Referencing Tool
Yesterday the Mozilla Drumbeat organization launched a new tool to help content users reference openly licensed Creative Commons content. Referencing openly licensed content has been slightly ambigious in the past with many people adopting their own methods. The OpenAttribute project
Announcing the Launch of the UCT OpenContent Directory
A Creative Commons Image by Stuck in Customs The University of Cape Town’s Centre for Educational Technology takes great pleasure in announcing the launch of UCT’s OpenContent directory, a new portal for accessing the university’s collection of open educational resources.