365 Days of Openness: The Emergence of OER at the University of Cape town
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2013
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Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl
Paskevicius, Michael
Cox, Glenda
Shaikh, Shihaam
Czerniewicz, Laura
Lee-Pan, Samantha
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Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice
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Historically, resources such as books, journals, newspapers, audio and video recordings have been fairly well curated in university libraries. However, the same cannot be said for teaching and learning materials, unless they have been included in a textbook or study guide. With the growth in digital media, libraries have been extending their curation of scholarly resources to include electronic journals, digital books and reference guides, broadening access to these beyond the physical walls of the library. While the growth in digital technology has prompted academics to create their own customised and contextually specific digital media for use in their teaching in the form of PowerPoint presentations, manuals, handbooks, guides, media resources and websites, these resources are most often stored on personal hard drives, on departmental servers or within password-protected institutional learning management systems. Access to these digital materials is usually limited to registered students undertaking specific courses within specific institutions and usually only disseminated by individual academics or departments.
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Hodgkinson-Williams, C., Paskevicius, M., Cox, G., Shaikh, S., Czerniewicz, L., & Lee-Pan, S. (2013). 365 Days of Openness: The Emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town. Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice, 2013, 33-45. https://oerknowledgecloud.org/sites/oerknowledgecloud.org/files/pub_PS_OERIRP_ web.pdf.