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.
The DOT4D project hosted the UCT Open Textbook Conversation event on 2 August 2019 in order to bring the open textbook community together and discuss key issues and challenges.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor Lis Lange, has announced the winners of the inaugural UCT Open Textbook Award.
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.