Print Industries Cluster Council report on intellectual property rights in the print industries sector. Cape Town: Print Industries Cluster Council.
The Report deals in particular with copyright as an aspect of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and the impact of these rights on growth and development in the print industries sector. It therefore surveys the state of copyright as it relates to the written word and identifies ways in which copyright laws and practices in South Africa are aiding or inhibiting growth. Finally, it makes... more
South Africa. In P. Pillay (Ed.), Higher education financing in East and Southern Africa (pp. 154-172). Cape Town: Centre for Higher Education Transformation.
A multi-country study of higher education financing in East Africa, southern Africa, and the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. more
The Genesis and Emergence of Education 3.0 in Higher Education and it's Potential for Africa
This paper presents a scenario in which education is approaching a potential tipping point, where major changes are about to happen as a result of developments in technology, social networking, deeper understanding of educational process, as well as new legal and economic frames of reference. more
Accessibility of Open Educational Resources for Distance Education learners: The case of the Open University of Tanzania. HURIA: Journal of The Open University of Tanzania, 14, 76?88.
This paper investigated the accessibility of Open Educational Resources at The Open University of Tanzania. Specifically, the study looked at staff and students? level of awareness on the types of OER available at OUT Library, access and use trends of OER by academic staff and students, challenges faced in accessing OER and possible solutions. more
The Role of Post-Graduate Students in Co-authoring Open Educational Resources to Promote Social Inclusion: A Case Study at the University of Cape Town. Distance Education, 33(2), 253-269
Endeavors to surface the various disturbances or conflicts with which postgraduate students had to engage to make OER socially inclusive, as well as Engestrm's "layers of causality" to explain postgraduate students' growing sense of agency as they experienced the OER development process as being socially inclusive. more
Mkwawa University College of Education (MUCE) and University of Dar-es-Salaam (UDSM), Tanzanaia: Integrating OER into Teacher Development Programmes: A Case Study. Nairobi: OER Africa, A SAIDE Initiative.
This case study documents the background, process and outcomes of a collaboration between Mkwawa University College of Education, the University of Dar-es-Salaam and OER Africa in the period 2011 to 2014. more
Separating the rhetoric from the reality: The process of institutionalizing OER Practices at African Universities. Paper presented at PCF8 2016 - 8th Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning.
This paper explores barriers to deepening a culture of implementing research-based pedagogical change in African universities and proposes possible mitigation strategies. more
The Use of ICT at Kenyatta University
The Use of ICT at Kenyatta University brochure is one of a series that aims to showcase good practice in African higher education. It is intended for higher education decision-makers on the Continent and overseas. Each institution in this series has taken simple steps to solve basic fundamental problems and improve the level of education and service delivery in a context of limited resources... more
The use and production of OER & OCW in teaching in South African higher education institutions: Case study. Open Praxis, 5(2), 102?121.
Reports on the uses, the motivation for and perceived benefits of use, as well as the challenges of using or producing OER/OCW among academics at public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa (SA). Findings revealed widespread use of OER/OCW amongst respondents in their teaching endeavors, with a number of reported benefits. Findings also revealed respondents? educational... more
Analytical insights on the position, challenges, and potential for promoting OER in ODeL institutions in Africa. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 17(4).
Results indicated that OUT staff were willing to engage with OER but had limited awareness, skills and competencies in the creation, integration and use of OER. The outcome of the study was the development of nine draft OER resolutions expressing needs that include the development of a comprehensive institutional OER policy related to existing institutional policies in order to guide,... more
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