Presenters: Dr Glenda Cox, OE Global programme chair, Sukaina Walji, ROER4D, Tony Carr, e/merge Africa network convenor

Format: One hour Adobe Connect live session Thursday 30 March at 12 Noon (SAST)

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The Open Education Global Conference was held in Cape Town from 8 to 10 March 2017. This was a first for the African continent, welcoming the world to meet, discuss, plan, reflect, collaborate, innovate and celebrate openness in education. 2017 is the ‘year of open’ as it marks several milestones in the openness movement, including:

• The 10 year anniversary of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration,
• 15 year anniversary of the term “Open Educational Resources” and the
• 5 year anniversary of the Paris OER Declaration.

In this session we will share some reflections on and learnings from this event. We invite you to a shared discussion about the implications of emerging research and practice related to openness for African Higher Education.

Links for interest:

About the conference
Conference schedule with links to abstracts and presentations
About the Year of Open Initiative

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Dr. Glenda Cox ,is a senior lecturer at CILT and her portfolio includes Curriculum projects, Teaching with Technology innovation grants, Open Education Resources and Staff development. She has recently completed her PhD in Education and her research focused on using the theoretical approach of Social Realism to explain why academic staff choose to contribute or not to contribute their teaching resources as open educational resources. She believes supporting and showcasing UCT staff who are excellent teachers, both in traditional face-to-face classrooms and the online world, is of great importance. She is passionate about the role of Open Education in the changing world of Higher Education. She is also a project leader on a ROER4D sub-project on academics’ views of sharing OERs in South Africa and was the programme chair for the 2017 OE Global conference.

Sukaina Walji,is ROER4D’s Research Communications Advisor. Her role is to oversee the overall communication strategy both for the project’s day-to-day external and internal communications including the website and social media, as well as developing the research communications and dissemination strategy for the project’s research outputs. She works as part of the project coordination team and is supported by the IDRC-funded DECI-2 project in building understanding of the Research Communications for Development field. She is also a Researcher on ROER4D Sub-project 10.3 which is investigating how and in what ways adopting OER in and for MOOCs has an impact on educators’ Open Educational Practices. She has a Master’s degree in Online and Distance Education from the Open University (UK) and is also the Project Manager of  UCT’s MOOC Implementation Team.

Tony Carr , is the convener of e/merge Africa and educational technologist in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town. Tony’s operational and research interests include online collaboration, communities of practice in staff development, online facilitation and online professional networks.

Dr. Nicola Pallitt , is a lecturer in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town and a co-convenor of the Facilitating Online course. Her professional interests include e-portfolios, badging in courses and games in learning.

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