We celebrated one year of OpenContent at the University of Cape Town in February 2011. This presentation ran at our anniversary event where we gave thanks to all of our open educational resource contributors.

2. UCT OpenContent One Year Anniversary 4 March 2011

3. What is “Open Content”? Open Content / Open educational resources (OER) / Open Courseware are educational materials (usually digital) that can be: Shared freely and openly for … Shared … redistribute and share again. Used Redistributed … use byanyone to … … adapt / repurpose/ improve under some type of license in order to … Improved

5. Open Source Software in the Open Movement

6. The paradox of sharing The OECD reflects that "although learning resources are often considered as key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world, more and more institutions and individuals are sharing digital learning resources over the Internet openly and without cost, as open educational resources (OER) (2007:9).

7. OER Champion: MIT

8. OER Champion: Rice University

9. OER Champion: Open University

10. University of Michigan

11. Delft University of Technology

12. Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

13. Keio University

14. Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico

15. OpenCourseWare Consortium

16. Aggregating content: OER Commons

17. Aggregating video: Academic Earth

18. Collecting OER in Africa: OER Africa

19. History of UCT OpenContent Funded by the Hewlett Foundation Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation Funded by the Shuttleworth Foundation

20. Opening Scholarship projectJuly 2007- Dec 2008

21. UCT signs Cape Town Open Education Declaration April 2008

22. OER UCT projectFeb 2009-Feb 2010

23. OER UCT project blog

24. The UCT OpenContent directory Lists and describes the growing collection of open educational content at UCT Links this collection to international platforms and act as a mechanism for increasing the visibility of UCT-produced open content Facilitates reporting around questions such as: Which OERs have been published by person X in my department? What OER content is available from my department? How many OERs are in the UCT Collection? To what extent is my department’s OER output promoting us globally?

26. A Manual of Online Molecular Biology TechniquesPublishing: Since 2007 Format: Website/HTML Accessed 1301 times!

28. Discovering Information Systems

29. Office XP for Business

30. eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing

31. The Internet Super-User TextbookPublishing: Since 2009 Format: PDF Accessed 1548 times!

34. UCT OpenContent: Contributors Catherine Hutchings Illustrations by Stacey Stent Centre for Higher Education Development Studying at University: A guide for first year students Published: February 2011 Format: PDF Accessed 1636 times!

37. UCT OpenContent: Contributors Tim Noakes Sports Science Institute of South Africa The body is willing but the mind is weak. Or is it the other way around? Published: February 2010 Format: Audio lecture Accessed 164 times!

40. Get Ready For Abundance Culture At High School

41. Improve your Online Presence

42. A private high school's staff responses to a Web 2.0 and "abundant digital media" presentationPublishing: Since early 2010 Format: PowerPoint on SlideShare Accessed 451 times!

47. Evidence Based Management Library Guide

48. Using Global Insight

49. How to chart variance on Datastream

50. Evaluating websites Publishing: Since June 2010 Format: Presentations and websites Accessed 694 times!

53. Four second year courses Published: December 2010 Format: Various course resources Accessed 575 times!

54. UCT joins the OCWC March 2010 Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Michelle Willmers submit the application to OCWC

56. Open Access Week 2010 at the University of Cape Town

57. OER at UCT: From Project to Portfolio March 2010

58. A busy year with lots of fun!!

59. Conclusion ‘Today, a confluence of events is creating the perfect storm for significantly advancing education. With a growing inventory of openly available educational tools and resources, and with an increasingly engaged and connected community, transformative opportunities for education abound. (Iiyoshi & Kumar 2008:2)

60. Thanks to Prof Jo Beall Prof Danie Visser Prof Martin Hall Eve Gray Laura Czerniewicz OER UCT team Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams Stephen Marquard Michelle Willmers Michael Paskevicius Roger Brown David Horwitz Shihaam Donnelly NoluTyam Ermien van Pletzen Telamenta Health OER team Greg Doyle University of Michigan Kathleen Ludewig OER Commons Creative Commons SA Tobias Schonwetter Andrew Rens University of the Western Cape Philipp Schmidt Shuttleworth Foundation KarienBezuidenhout

61. Thanks to the contributors

62. References Attwood, R (2009) Get it out in the open. Online: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=40830024 September Downes S (2007) Models for sustainable open educational resources. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects 3: 29-44. Iiyoshi, T & Kumar, MSV (Eds) (2008) Opening Up Education: The collective advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press. O’Reilly, T (2003) The Architecture of Participation. Available online: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3017 (Checked 4 October 2009) Yuan, L, MacNeill, S and Kraan W (2008). Open Educational Resources – Opportunities and Challenges for Higher Education. JISC CETIS. Available at http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/images/0/0b/OER_Briefing_Paper.pdf [Accessed 4 February 2009].