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ROER4D

Open Educational Resources in SA 2015

South Africa, 2015
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zaf-roer4d-oersa-2015-v1.1
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Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)
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Research on Open Educational Resources for Development
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Oct 08, 2015
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    Survey ID number

    zaf-roer4d-oersa-2015-v1.1

    Title

    Open Educational Resources in SA 2015

    Country
    Name
    South Africa
    Study type

    Other Survey

    Abstract

    The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project is based at the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Glenda Cox and Henry Trotter of the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at the University of Cape Town undertook Sub-project 4 of ROER4D. The project, Research into the Social and Cultural Acceptability of Open Educational Resources in South Africa, aims to describe and explain the barriers to and enablers of Open Educational Resources (OER) contribution at institutions in South Africa. The key objective of the research was to understand why scholars contribute or refuse to contribute their teaching materials as OER. The project utilised a mixed methods approach. Surveys of and interviews with academics at three South African institutions were conducted in March 2015 to understand the conditions under which the contribution and/or use of OER would be considered socially and culturally acceptable. Focusing on academics’ teaching practices at the University of Cape Town (UCT) (urban, contact), the University of South Africa (UNISA) (distance, online/ correspondence), and University of Fort Hare University (rural, contact). The resultant dataset includes the survey (quantitative) and interview (qualitative) data.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Units of analysis were individuals

    Version

    Version Description

    v1.1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution

    Version Date

    2015

    Version Notes

    Version 1 of the dataset was deposited with DataFirst on 16 September 2015. Version 1.1 has been anonymised further.

    Scope

    Notes

    The research collected data on why academics contribute or refuse to contribute their teaching materials as Open Educational Resources.

    Keywords
    Open Access Open Data Open Educational Resources Open Scholarship

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    The surveys were conducted at three universities in South Africa and the data is not representative of South Africa as a whole.

    Geographic Unit

    The lowest level of geographic aggregation of the data is individual university.

    Universe

    The survey covered academicand support staff at the three universities in the study.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) University of Cape Town
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    International Development Research Centre Funder

    Data Collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2015-03 2015-03
    Data Collection Notes

    The interviews were conducted with 18 people (6 per university), and comprised 50-56 questions and lasted between 30 minutes and 1 hour. The online survey collected quantitative data while open-ended interviews were undertaken at the workshops.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal

    Age data was collected for age groups. However, there was an overlap between age groups 56-60 and 60-65 in the survey instrument. Respondents for these groups were therefore combined into a 56-65 age group.

    Data Access

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support.data1st.org support@data1st.org
    Access conditions

    Public use data, available to all

    Citation requirements

    Research on Open Educational Resources for Development. Open Educational Resources in South Africa 2015. (ROER4D Sub-project 4) [dataset]. Version 1.1. Cape Town: ROER4D [producer], 2015. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor], 2015. 10.25828/b9a8-yv68

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Email URL
    DataFirst Support support@data1st.org support.data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production

    2018-07-25

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    Version 3

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