Contextualised open educational practices : towards student agency and self-directed learning / edited by Jaco Olivier [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olivier, Jaco, editor.

Series:

NWU self-directed learning series.

NWU self-directed learning series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Independent study.

Self-managed learning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 252 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town, South Africa : AOSIS Books, an imprint of AOSIS Publishing, 2022.

Summary:

This book covers original research on the implementation of open educational practices through the use of open educational resources at the university level. The emphasis on open education in this book is on contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning specifically within a South African milieu. The envisaged chapters cover conceptual and review research and empirical work focussing on open educational practices and the use of renewable assessments. The work starts off with an overview of an institutional-wide open education project that prompted the research followed by research on open education in terms of various modules in the health science, music education, law, philosophy, dietetics, anthropology, French language learning, journalism and political science. There is a clear gap in the literature on open education in terms of open educational practices, specifically in terms of contextualising resources, supporting student agency and fostering self-directed learning in a South African context. Despite the existence of some general works on open education in terms of policy, social justice and open textbooks, this book will be unique in exploring the intersections of openness, specifically with contextualisation, student agency and self-directedness.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Open educational practices for self-directed learning: An open educational resources fellowship as a case study

Chapter 2: Multilingual digital education for social justice through localised self-directed open educational practices in South Africa

Chapter 3: What open educational resources' incorporation in education might contribute including implications for self-directed learning

Chapter 4: Multilingual philosophy glossaries: Steps towards socially just pedagogical praxis

Chapter 5: Designing an open educational resource as part of a technology-enhanced practice environment developing the oral interactional competence of beginner language learners

Chapter 6: Decolonising the journalism curriculum through co-creating an OER textbook with students

Chapter 7: Stories students tell about their learning experiences creating open educational resources in a music education module

Chapter 8: Second-year health students' perspectives on developing open educational resources

Chapter 9: An open educational resource as a tool to create awareness around infectious diseases: A focus on the human immunodeficiency virus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus

Chapter 10: How decolonial practices can assist with researching open educational resources and developing open legal pedagogies from a South African perspective

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.