Open Educational ResourcesBy CIECT

Fundile Nkunge

Accra 2012

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OCW and OER at UWC

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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OER

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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OER components

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 localisationHuman factor: continuous support for faculty

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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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Centre for Innovative, Educational and Communication Technologies (CIECT) Support

The free courseware, OER project at UWC is driven by the UWC’s Centre for Innovative, Educational and Communication Technologies (CIECT)o Buy-inoGet content from the lectureso Authoring of pageso Release content for publication.

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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 cultureChanging mindsOER culture OF sharing – timeous-

continuous support to change mindsets Continuous Marketing Continuous support

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CIECT’s Continuous Support

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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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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 EpidemiologySPH727 - 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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EMS Faculty (Information Systems)

Java Platform Introduction

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EMS Information Systems

PHP

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Sciences Faculty

Biodiversity and conservation BiologyBCB706 - Conservation Biology

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Law Faculty

CL202 - Constitutional Law

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Law Faculty

European Union Law LLM module

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Law Faculty

South African Law Bill of rights

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School of Public Health

881520 - Measuring Health and Disease 1: Introduction to Epidemiology

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School of Public Health

SPH727 - Managing Human Resources for Health

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Community and Health Sciences (CHS) Faculty

NUR821 - Curriculum Development for Health Professional Education

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Community and Health Sciences (CHS) Faculty

NUR823 - Teaching, Learning and Assessment methods, Second

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Impact of OER at UWC

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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Responses from lecturers

“ 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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Responses from lecturers

“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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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