Day 1 – A Participatory Design workshop on Mobile Learning for Development Niall Winters & Yishay Mor, London Knowledge Lab, UK Caroline Shakwei Sawe Mbindyo, AMREF, Kenya Roger and I walked in on this session by accident. The pre-conference events
Emerging strategies for OER sharing online
I have been doing some thinking about the OER landscape and how it is developing globally. For my research I have identified five main strategies for OER sharing online which have emerged. Institutional repository Institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute
Students can now freely access a selection of international OER sites!
We are delighted to announce that we have managed to get a selection of open educational resource sites omitted from the student internet quota. When a student at UCT accesses the web they are using a monthly quota that is
Seminar: 365 Days of Openness: A behind the scenes look at the UCT OpenContent Initiative
Hi everyone! Sorry its been so long since our last post, we have been kept exceedingly busy these days. On what you ask? Well why not join us on Thursday and find out? I’ll be presenting on the latest
UCT OpenContent Increases Visibility and Access to UCT Resources
Adapted Creative Commons Image by 姒儿喵喵 <- Cool! The UCT OpenContent directory is enabling and promoting the discovery andaccessibility of UCT teaching and learning resources. Materials which have been shared on OpenContent become more visible because of their listing alongside
A search for education in an online world
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Finding Openly Licensed Images for Teaching and Learning Materials
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