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ProjectNo relevant topicsSouthern Africa has one of the largest and fastest-growing elderly populations in Africa.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsThe Tuwe Pamoja project (“Let’s be together” for equitable urban nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation)The Tuwe Pamoja project aims to strengthen critical capacities across key urban actors (city officials, informal residents, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations and researchers) to co-design and implement nature-based solutions in ways that contribute to urban development that is just, sustainable and climate-resilient, particularly for the most marginalized.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsSharing the motherload: Engaging fathers and other key stakeholders to transform gender policy and foster care economiesGender inequality is a key challenge confronting South Africa.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsBAOBAB: synthesis program for African research on climate changeCapacity to synthesize existing climate evidence is critical to efforts to respond to the climate crisis in an evidenced-based way.
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Research in ActionEconomics HealthCreating tools and evidence to improve tobacco tax policy in West AfricaTobacco Tax Reforms for Health and Economic Development in sub-Saharan Africa
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ProjectNo relevant topicsPan-African and transdisciplinary lens on the margins: Tackling the risks of extreme events (PALM-TREES)According to the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, over 20 million people are displaced annually and many more are affected by floods, drought and heatwaves.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsOpen textbook landscape survey report: University of Cape Town
This landscape survey utilised a desktop review approach combined with selective consultation with key partners, colleagues who were open education advocates, and practitioners, in order to produce a comprehensive list of open textbooks published at the University of Cape Town (UCT). The study reveals a minimum of 39 open textbooks were published by UCT authors in the period 2010–2021, and that there was uneven distribution of open textbook output across different faculties.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsDigital open textbooks for development : interview 1 of 2 (2019)
This interview schedule was developed in 2019 by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project at the University of Cape Town as part of its open textbook research process. The interview examines authors’ motivations for developing open textbooks, their envisioned content development plans in terms of authorship approach and student involvement, as well as approaches towards publishing, quality assurance, sustainability, copyright and licensing.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsDigital open textbooks for development : interview 2 of 2 (2019)
This interview schedule was developed by the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project at the University of Cape Town (2019) as part of its open textbook research process.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsMaria Keet’s open textbook journey
This case study draws from the experience of Associate Professor Maria Keet (Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town/UCT, 2018) who wrote the first textbook in the new subfield of ontological engineering, “An Introduction to Ontology Engineering.” The Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project is a research, advocacy and implementation initiative based in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at UCT.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsKensleyrao Apajee’s open textbook journey
Students of first-year Engineering Drawing (ED) in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Cape Town (UCT, 2017-2018) were forced to choose between buying an expensive and (perhaps) ill-suited textbook or ignoring it at their peril. Through the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project, head tutor, Kensleyrao Apajee set his mind to creating an alternative in the form of an open textbook.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsJonathan Shock’s open textbook journey
Jonathan Shock was awarded a grant from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project to develop a series of chapters for a first-year mathematics textbook “Introduction to University Level Mathematics for a South African Audience.” The first of these chapters, ‘Introduction to Complex Numbers’ (co-authored with Mashudu Mokhithi), was published in the OpenUCT repository in 2020.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsDigital open textbooks for development
The Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project is a research, implementation and advocacy initiative at the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town. Findings show compelling evidence to suggest that open textbook development processes could address social injustice in higher education.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsAre large-scale collaborations worth it? : a longitudinal study of researchers’ perceptions over a 5 year program CARIAA-ASSAR
The paper looks at experiences of participants in the large-scale, five-year collaborative research project, Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR), midway and at the end of the project. It explores the benefits and limitations of transdisciplinary collaborations and the extent to which these can be outweighed through better programme design.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsTim Low’s open textbook journey
Tim Low’s Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) grant enabled him to start translating the first-year IntroStat textbook from English into isiXhosa. As a senior lecturer at University of Cape Town, Tim advocates for greater inclusivity, localisation and multilingualism in the teaching of statistics at UCT. Enthusiasm for the project was sustained during 2019.
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ProjectNo relevant topicsRegulation for innovation supporting Sustainable Development GoalsGlobal disparities in access to COVID-19 vaccines have laid bare inequities and shortcomings in national and international regulatory systems, including intellectual property laws and policies.
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Research in ActionDevelopmentMobilizing knowledge for climate resilience and adaptationA key step for enhancing adaptation is connecting researchers who produce climate change evidence with those who can put it into action.
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Research in ActionEnvironment Food and AgricultureEnhanced finance, data and Inclusion can help breach Africa’s climate change adaptation gapsInadequate financing, a data shortage and exclusion of local voices hinder climate change adaptation efforts in Africa. IDRC-funded researchers are on the frontlines to change the situation.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsDesigning a framework for making use of MOOCs
The presentation covers the University of Cape Town (UCT) Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) project, including designing a framework for use, licensing, new course modes, MOOC materials re-use, and learning from other creators and teachers’ experiences. It also provides examples of existing MOOCs at UCT. MOOCs are a prominent form of free or low-cost course offerings, not necessarily within the traditional vision for open education.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsMOOCs, openness and changing educator practices : an activity theory case study, 18-20 November 2018, HELTASA, North-West University
The University of Cape Town (UCT) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 3-year project is one of the first major MOOC initiatives in Africa. The presentation provides an outline of development of Open Educational Resources (OER) as these would apply to MOOC conditions, along with an outline of proposed research on the topic, where the MOOC and its OER components are operationalised.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsMOOCs and open practices : an activity theory view - 30 March 2016, teaching and learning conference, University of Cape Town
The presentation describes characteristics of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), theory and design. It also provides insight into the dynamics of openness in terms of materials reuse, open access, sharing, and public accessibility.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsEconomic complexity and employment expansion in Africa
This policy brief provides a synthesis of four country case studies: Ghana, Kenya, Senegal and South Africa. Economic complexity refers to the amount of “productive knowledge” or “technical know-how” within a country. The paper provides a table summarizing product-specific constraints by country.
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PublicationsNo relevant topicsOER in and as MOOCs : impact on educators' practices in African-developed higher education courses
The University of Cape Town research examines what the ‘open’ in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) means - as a contested space, and to identify constraints as they emerge during design and implementation of courses. 12 MOOCS have been created over a three year period. The working hypothesis is that Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption in a MOOC format contributes to the spread of open educational practices as well as a transformation in educators’ teaching and learning practices.
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NewsDevelopment Information and Communication GovernanceNovel study reveals efforts in the Global South to counter information disorderA newly released 18-month scoping study reveals the people and approaches that are being used to counter the information disorder in the Global South. Funded by IDRC, the study identifies successes, challenges, and areas for further research.Date
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EventsNo relevant topicsClimate Emergency in West Africa: Impacts and Insights
A conversation about the IPCC report