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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, 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’ by DOT4D team members Glenda Cox, Bianca

‘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

DOT4D Principal Investigator Dr Glenda Cox and Researcher Bianca Masuku attended the Open Education Global Conference 2022 on 23–25 May in Nantes, France. Read Banca Masuku's reflections on the inspiring occasion. 

As part of international Open Education Week, DOT4D hosted the third UCT Open Textbook Conversation event on 10 March to launch Dr Glenda Cox’s position as the UNESCO Chair in Open Education and Social Justice at UCT and explo

DOT4D has received the 2021 Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN) Fred Mulder Award for Best Open Practice.

Inspiring stories of academics at UCT who embarked on open textbook development initiatives in order to provide their students with more accessible and locally relevant learning materials.

The 2021 UCT Open Textbook Award goes to Associate Professor Maria Keet for her groundbreaking resource, An Introduction to Ontology Engineering.