Presenter: Glenda Cox, CILT, UCT

Date and time: 14th of June, 10.00-13.00

Location: e-Learning Building, Cape Town campus

Seminar description:

You are invited to attend a workshop on the teaching opportunities afforded by Open Educational Resources (OER) in South Africa. Emerging from the global “open” initiatives. OER are growing in importance as mechanisms for enhancing the quality of our teaching, especially in the Global South. This workshop will include an introduction to OER, where to find OER and a basic introduction to Creative Commons licensing. The quality of OER is a complex issue with various opinions about how to go about managing quality and some time will be spent outlining these debates and discussing them.

Key aspects that will be covered:

• the open educational movement
• strategies for openness
• opportunities and barriers to using or creating OER
• online platforms for finding and depositing OER
• copyright issues and alternative licensing of teaching materials
• quality and OER

To book your place please use our online booking system!

Presenter: Glenda Cox, UCT

Date and time: 18th of June, 14.00-16.00

Location: Faculty of Applied Sciences, Bellville Campus

Seminar description:

You are invited to attend a workshop on the teaching opportunities afforded by Open Educational Resources (OER) in South Africa. Emerging from the global “open” initiatives. OER are growing in importance as mechanisms for enhancing the quality of our teaching, especially in the Global South. This workshop will include an introduction to OER, where to find OER and a basic introduction to Creative Commons licensing. The quality of OER is a complex issue with various opinions about how to go about managing quality and some time will be spent outlining these debates and discussing them.

Key aspects that will be covered:

• the open educational movement
• strategies for openness
• opportunities and barriers to using or creating OER
• online platforms for finding and depositing OER
• copyright issues and alternative licensing of teaching materials
• quality and OER

To book your place please use our online booking system!

Facilitator: Zanele Mathe, library, CPUT

Date: 24th of April 2014, 14.00-16.00

Location: Room 428, Engineering Building, Cape Town

Seminar description:

The seminar is on Research Data Management: Conversation with researchers at CPUT. Research data management (RDM) is becoming an important and critical part in science. The amount of data that is being created in universities is growing exponentially. One major challenge facing Higher Education is the lack of strategies  to ensure that this data is managed correctly and can be accessible over a long-term period. The seminar will discuss conversations and initiatives that are happening within the university which are striving towards the development of a good research data management practice within the university. The seminar will cover issues on policy, infrastructure development and services for  research data management at CPUT.

To book your place use our online booking system.

For more information email gachagod@cput.ac.za

Facilitator: Dr Michael Rowe, UWC

Date: 10th of April 2014, 14.00-16.00

Location: Science Seminar Room, Ground Floor, Old Sciences Building, Bellville campus

Description of seminar:

Where is the value in university courses? Is it in the content, the engagement with others, or the social spaces that are created? As new technologies find their way into university classrooms, the value of the traditional course is being challenged, especially when content is free and student engagement is moving towards online social spaces. Open online courses, including those with large numbers of participants (MOOCs), have the potential to increase access to higher education and support the development of new teaching practices.

While strong evidence for these claims is yet to emerge, online courses do introduce broader social connections, opportunities for enhanced collaboration, and exposure to many different perspectives, all of which change the educational space in ways that may improve student learning. Open online courses may offer innovative teaching and learning opportunities that can enhance the student learning experience. As social media and other online technologies become increasingly embedded in higher education, health care professionals will need to be familiar with the context of learning in open, online spaces.

This seminar will present the process of designing and implementing an open, online course that included participants from the UWC Department of Physiotherapy, as well as qualified physiotherapists from around the world. Results from the process will be presented, and recommendations made for those considering incorporating open courses in their curricula.

 Seminar resources

Link to presentation on slideshare

Link to podcast recording of seminar