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UNESCO Open Education Symposium

The purpose of this event is to identify the key issues facing the growth, sustainability and future of open education initiatives in South Africa.

Winner of the 2023 UCT Open Textbook Award, Nomusa Ntinga (centre) with DVC Prof. Linda Ronnie (left) and DOT4D lead Dr Glenda Cox

UCT Open Textbook Award winner 2023

The winner of the 2023 UCT Open Textbook Award is Nomusa Ntinga for her Interactive E‑book of Physiotherapy Terminology published in April 2023.

Student perspective: Open textbooks

“Something I was not ready for was the fame … [the editor] would have found it easy to convince me to do this if he had told me about the fame”
Gift Phala, co-author, Marketing to South African Consumers open textbook

Watch a video of Gift in conversation

Vimabi Malandu, co-author, “Marketing to South African Consumers” open textbook

Student perspective: Open textbooks

“There was so much talk about decolonisation of the curriculum and access to academic resources, so I took this as an opportunity to contribute”
Vimbai Malandu, co-author, Marketing to South African open textbook

Watch a video of Vimbai in conversation

DOT4D PI Dr Glenda Cox: UNESCO Chair

DOT4D Principal Investigator Dr Glenda Cox is the University of Cape Town UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice.

UCT Open Content Finder

Looking for an open textbook? The UCT Open Content Finder is an evolving list of open textbooks and other open educational resources created and used at the University of Cape Town.

Elevating student voice and levelling traditional power hierarchies

Collaboration with students offers the potential for creating a more inclusive higher education environment, and open textbook development initiatives can be a vehicle for change.

UCT Open Textbook Award winner 2023

The winner of the 2023 UCT Open Textbook Award is Nomusa Ntinga for her Interactive E‑book of Physiotherapy Terminology published in April 2023.

UCT Open Textbook Conversation 2023

Members of the UCT open textbook community gathered for the 2023 UCT Open Textbook Conversation event on Monday 6 March to exchange ideas and experiences related to collaborative content creation processes that address multilingualism, locali

DOT4D PI Dr Glenda Cox (centre) with fellow panelists in the "Transdisciplinarity to face the pressing issues of the 21st century" session

DOT4D at UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme Conference

DOT4D PI Dr Glenda Cox, UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice, attended the “30th anniversary of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs Programme: Transforming knowledge for just and sustainable futures” event at the UNESCO headquarters

Open Textbooks, Intuitive Pedagogy and Social Justice

‘Open Textbooks, Intuitive Pedagogy, and Social Justice’ by DOT4D team members Glenda Cox, Bianca

Sustainable Open Textbook Models for Social Justice

‘Sustainable Open Textbook Models for Social Justice’ by DOT4D team members Glenda Cox, Michelle Willmers and Bianca Masuku was published in Frontiers in Education in July 2022. This summative piece captures three years of DOT