Open Educational Resources in SA 2015
South Africa, 2015
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Reference ID
zaf-roer4d-oersa-2015-v1.1
Producer(s)
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D)
Metadata
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Oct 08, 2015
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Identification
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
| Keyword |
|---|
| 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 |
Producers
Funding Agency/Sponsor
| Name | Abbreviation | Role |
|---|---|---|
| International Development Research Centre | IDRC | Funder |
Data Collection
Dates of Data Collection
| Start | End |
|---|---|
| 2015-03 | 2015-03 |
Data Collection Mode
Face-to-face [f2f]
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.
Access policy
Contacts
| Name | URL | |
|---|---|---|
| DataFirst Support | 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
Access authority
| Name | Affiliation | URL | |
|---|---|---|---|
| DataFirst | University of Cape Town | 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
DDI Document version
Version 3