365 Days of Openness: A behind the scenes look at the UCT OpenContent Initiative

Michael Paskevicius

What does UCT OpenContent mean to you?

by dkscully

by Marcus Hansson

Open content from UCT existed long before the directory

Where do people host their resources?

Indexing of resources

Listing content in OpenContent allows you to add metadata which increases the discoverability of a resource This particular resource is hosted

in Vula, but described and shared in OpenContent

Discoverability

Discoverability

Growth of content

2010 2011

Granularity of materials

What’s inside?

By Faculty

By media type

Licensing choices

WEB ANALYTICS: TRACKING ACTIVITY ON UCT OPENCONTENT

by fd

Date range: February 12, 2010 – May 9, 2011

UCT OpenContent becomes a fixture on the UCT homepage

UCT OpenContent added to the list of online resources on the library website

Release of the much anticipated Guide for

First Years

UCT OpenContent added to the UCT Wikipedia page

Our international visitors

South AfricaVisits: 25,673

Pages per visit: 3.02 Average time: 00:02:42

USAVisits: 4,112

Pages per visit: 1.88 Average time: 00:02:35

United KingdomVisits: 1,048

Pages per visit: 1.88 Average time: 00:01:59

IndiaVisits: 513

Pages per visit: 2.02 Average time: 00:01:44

CanadaVisits: 550

Pages per visit: 1.93 Average time: 00:01:47

ChinaVisits: 320

Pages per visit: 2.02 Average time: 00:02:41

How do people find us?

7,264 770

304

3,105 201

182

UCT OpenContent going social

CROSSING THE DIVIDE: UNDERSTANDING HOW MATERIALS GET REUSED

by ryancr

CHED Computer Literacy Guides• IEEE UCT chapter use the openly licensed CHED computer

literacy materials to support training in a computer lab donated to a high school

http://www.ebe.uct.ac.za/usr/ebe/staff/april2010.pdf

Creative Commons Licensing Screencast

• Creative Commons licensing video is translated into Czechoslovakian, French, Italian and Spanish on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pvoie4ydSw

Studying at University: A guide for first year students

• Used by Venda University and the University of the Western Cape with new students

• Stellenbosch University uses some of the illustrations• The guide has been accessed over 1800 times via the

directory and over 600 physical printed guides have been sold!

OpenContent becomes a Journal Article

• Materials published as OER on OpenContent selected for publishing in the Journal of Occupational Therapy of Galicia, an open access journal for occupational therapists in the Spanish speaking world

http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/oer-uct/2010/12/06/sharing-knowledge-leads-to-opportunities

COLLABORATIONS AND THE FUTURE

African Health OER Network and the Global dScribe Network

• Since 2009• Monthly meeting of

global OER practitioners (via Skype) to discuss issues at our institutions

http://groups.google.com/group/oer-dScribe/topics?pli=1

Knowledge sharing

UCT OpenContent Magazine Vol I & Vol II

OER@UCT Blog

OpenUCT

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Prepared by: Michael Paskevicius Contact me: mike.vicious@gmail.com

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