Open Educational Resources in the University of Cape

Town Health Sciences Faculty

Nicole Southgate, Gregory Doyle, Veronica Mitchell

Education Development Unit

Open Educational Resources (OER)

• Freely accessible

• Useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes.

• Openly licensed

Creative Commons

“…provide a simple, standardized way to give the public permission to share and use your creative work — on conditions of your choice.”

Attribution Attribution-ShareAlike Attribution-NonCommercial

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlikeAttribution-NonDerivativeAttribution-NonCommercial-NonDerivative

creativecommons.org

What does OER mean for students and staff?

• Remixing – building upon an existing work

No licence fees by Nicole Southgate. CC-BY

• No licence fees

Open doors by Donika Sadiku. CC-BY-SAhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/frialove/2919598610/in/photostream/

• Free access

OER and 1st year HSF Students

• Workshop with first year HSF students.

2012

2013

2014

Response to OER in Health Sciences Faculty

No, thanks

Maybe…

Yes!

Open Access Guides – Prof J Fagan

Interview link

Mobile Zulu, Mobile Xhosa - Saadiq Moolla

Watch the full interview here

http://mobilexhosa.org.za/index.php

http://mobilexhosa.org.za/index.php

Dr Juan Klopper

580 subscribers on YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/Jhklopper/featured)

867 videos, 222983 views

Surgery, Physics, Mathematics

584

Dr Juan Klopper

OERs are revolutionising education

“Through OERs, universities and experts worldwide are combining their knowledge to collaboratively

create better learning resources.”

Acknowledgements and Thanks

Veronica Mitchell

OER champions world-wide