Jacqui Kew

LearnAccountingOpening Access??

The Project

Financial Reporting; 26

Management Accounting; 15

Financial Management ; 3

Taxation; 11

Corporate Governance; 11

Business Skills; 3

Basic/Intermediate

isiXhosaisiZuluSesothoXitsonga

The Project

Financial Reporting; 13

Management Accounting; 2Financial Management ; 5

Taxation; 6

Corporate Governance; 6

ADVANCED

http://learnaccounting.uct.ac.za/

English

isiXhosa

Sesotho

Xitsonga

isiZulu

Open Access ?

• Is free sufficient to be open?• Open• Creative Commons License • Registration • Why??• Future options

Open Access ?

Access

Resource Knowledge

Opening Access via language ?

• Linguistic bilingualism vs cognitive bilingualism• English fluency and achievement - access• Political and social requirements of language• Coding

Mastery

Verbal Language

Communication

1

1 Gerber et al

Commonly spoken

Resources

Subject specific

Assessments

English

English

IsiZulu/isiXhosa/Sesotho/XiTsonga

Opening Access via language ?

• Linguistic bilingualism vs cognitive bilingualism• English fluency and achievement• Political and social requirements of language• Coding

2

2 Setati

Threshold concepts

• Threshold knowledge is a term in the study of higher education used to describe core concepts that once understood, transform perception of a given subject. [Meyer and Land]

• Access to further years of study

• Scaffolding • English unless issue with understanding

then mother tongue• Mother tongue first for understanding

then English for examination readiness• Before lectures• After lectures• Multiple language within lectures – via

own device

Order of learning

Scope of influence

Black African56%

Coloured7%

White25%

Indian9%

Other3%

47%

53%

Scope of influence

Scope of influence

Offering_July 2015 to Dec 2016

60 000 videos

10 000 hours

1 430 days

57 month

s

4.7 years