health oer uct
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Health OER @ UCT
[email protected]@uct.ac.za
(based on http://www.slideshare.net/laura_Cz/openness-at-the-university-of-cape-town)
Teaching at UCT
• Residential
• Face to face
• Almost no distance ed
• Not designed for non-traditional courses
• Funding subsidy for headcount & throughput (not curriculum or content)
• CHED active, strong academic development
Context
• OER part of a broader open movement
• Open access is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the Internet to peer-reviewed scholarly journal articles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access
• Institutional context and culture critical to how OER and open agenda play out
Open access E-learningOER
Champions @ institutional level
• At institutional level– DVC signs Cape Town
Declaration (2008)– VC signs Berlin Declaration
(2011)
• Work enabled by new UCT IP Policy– Specifically addresses issues relating to the creation
of OER resources and the licensing processes to be followed.
– Expressly states the support for publication of materials under Creative Commons licenses
Champions @ school level
• Health Sciences Dean
• Practitioners / Senior Prof
• In our experience of our cultural context– Senior level support symbolic– Vertical relationships do not cause change per se,
only when actual projects in place (eg HS)– Champions work best in horizontal networked
relationships, building communities of practice
Harvesting OER
• Individual mentality and perception– Institution’s image will be enhanced– Department’s profile will be raised– OER development enhances their CVs and appraisal
• Building awareness (workshops, seminars, blog, champions)
http://www.a2newtech.org/members/36678032/
http://www.deta.up.ac.za/archive2005/speakers.htm
http://www.hope.edu/academic/language/french/newsletterS06.html
Harvesting OER
• OER reps
• Database of interested parties
• Maximum flexibility & enabling support
http://www.dhrs.uct.ac.za/news/?id=8360&t=mp
http://www.healthedu.uct.ac.za/elearning/healthoer/
http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/education-development-unit-fhs/2012/05/30/discover-learning-material-and-free-images
Faculty contributions
Faculty contributions February 2010- March 2012
Centre for Higher Educa-
tion Devel-opment
24%
Commerce8%
Engineering 4%
Health Sciences16%
Humanities34%
Law3%
Science11%