Dealing in Disruption - OA policy in an African context
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Dealing in Disruption
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age
We all know that we face a radically changing
environment
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…in which the web is changing everything
The defining feature of print books – they have covers, marking a beginning and an end
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A scarcity model – the important thing is
containing expensive-to-produce knowledge
for publication
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Filters matter in
this context
Filtering OUT…
In this world, publication is a
critical component of
knowledge production
Knowledge was the result of winnowing, as was what made it through the
editorial process. Knowledge was that which was settled... While knowledge
was of course contextual and related to its sources, its expression was in
discrete units that try to encapsulate everything the reader needs to know…
David Weinberger http://projectinfolit.org/st/weinberger.asp
Individual End-to-end
Packaged
StaticLinear
© ClosedAuthoritative
Hierarchical
Print media
Top-down
20th century - consolidation of global media industries
Worldmapper: Books publishedhttp://www.worldmapper.org/display.php?selected=343
In South Africa
Homogenisation of content, market dominance by large multinationals.
Local publishing concentrated in large undergraduate classes.
Overall, a shortage of locally relevant content.
Can we celebrate digital media as a route to new,
more expansive opportunities?
The trajectory of change
Availability of e-textbooks and customisation options
The horseless carriage – the
e-reader
…has its advantages…
http://www.jonmccormack.com/blog/?p=835
A more collaborative, interactive model emerges
Apple iPad interactive textbooks
But there are serious barriers to our
access to these and other powerful educational tools
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“This title is not
available in your
location, Africa”
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Dysfunctional business
models are encouraging
piracy
E-books need a seamless, worldwide,
customer-focused market
And in the universities?
Research is increasingly networked and collaborative
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Working with a deluge of data
Collaborative
Granular
Hyperlinked
Interactive
Disaggregated
Social Integrated
OpenInteroperable
Digital knowledge
Now knowledge occurs on a capacious network characterized by links. It’s thus taking on a shape that reflects its new medium. Deeply linked, incomplete,
inconsistent, in multiple-voices, unsettled, bottom up as well as top
down, multiple curated. Knowledge now looks like a network (of the Internet sort
specifically) because it is a network.
David Weinberger http://projectinfolit.org/st/weinberger.aspSee Weinberger, D (2012) Too Big to Know. New York, Basic Books
Publishing/communication in
this environment is continuous, no longer the final,
fixed output
The lines between research output
and teaching materials are
becoming more fluid
Students are online, accessing course materials
in multiple media
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They will need to learn how to find,
sift and select information
More than 90% of UCT students have at least one course delivered on the LMS,
Vula.
There will be increasing
demands for integrated textbook
materials, flexibly licensed
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OA and OER are now becoming widely adopted worldwide and is supported by
international, regional and national policies
UNESCO supports OER national policy development
UNESCO is convening regional policy workshops
Open Aire in the EU
The UK hires Jimmy Wales to advise on OA policy
WiLLGT09
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‘The goal of attaining meaningful post school education will be supported by the development and sharing of well designed high quality learning resources that build on the expertise and experience of top quality scholars and educators. ‘
The SA Green Paper on Post-School Education and Training
These resources should be made freely available as Open Education Resources (OER) for use with appropriate adaptation. This would be in line with a growing international movement …supported heavily by organisations such as UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning. http://www.dhet.gov.za/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yhGLBBQZBzM=&tabid=36&mid=1071
Licensing frameworks will be needed and institutional IP policies that include open licensing , in the light of the Green Paper
provision for’ an overarching policy framework on IP and copyright in higher
education’.
Empowerment through collaboratio
n – new partnership
s will be needed
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What is developing…
“The combination of free access to world-class textbooks and the flexibility to
modify the material exactly to our needs makes Flat World Knowledge ideal for
pairing with the OCW Scholar courses,” remarked MIT OpenCourseWare
Executive Director Cecilia d’Oliveira.
What partnerships are waiting to develop in
South Africa?
Paper delivered at e-Textbooks – Tools of Change for the Digital Migrant Teaching the Digital
Native
Van Schaik Bookstores Conference 10 May 2012
Eve Gray Scholarly Communication in
Africa ProgrammeUniversity of Cape Town
http://www.gray-area.co.za
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