The UCT Open Textbook Award aims to incentivise innovation in teaching and learning, recognise the efforts of open textbook authors, and promote the creation and reuse of open educational resources.
Dr Jonathan Shock, a Senior Lecturer in mathematics at UCT, is developing a mathematics open textbook for first-year students tailored to the local context in collaboration with students and colleagues.
Associate Professor Maria Keet has collaborated with colleagues and students at UCT to develop the world's first dynamic, online open textbook on ontology engineering for computer scientists.
Stella Papanicolaou, Valerie Lehabe and Maashitoh Rawoot are developing an architecture open textbook that makes historical narratives and technological developments of modern buildings in the global south more visible and accessible.
Kensleyrao Apajee is a Senior Tutor in the first-year Engineering Drawing course who is developing an open textbook to make his subject more accessible and bridge the knowledge gaps that exist between school and university.
Students doing the first-year Marketing course at UCT will be using the institutionally published Marketing to South African Consumers open textbook as their primary text this year.
On Wednesday 14 October, the DOT4D team delivered a presentation in the NMMU #OpenEdInfluencers webinar series on “Open textbooks: Towards a sustainable model for South African universities”.
The UCT Open Textbook Award aims to incentivise innovation in teaching and learning and recognise the efforts of open textbook authors. Nominations for the award are now open.
The newly launched University of Cape Town (UCT) Open Content Finder aims to assist lecturers and students in finding affordable, appropriate teaching and learning resources that can be used in remote teaching.