The UCT Open Textbook Award is an initiative of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning in collaboration with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching. The award aims to support innovative open education activity that addresses challenges related to the cost and accessibility of teaching and learning materials, as well as curriculum change and multilingualism at UCT.
Open textbooks are freely available, openly licensed educational resources with affordances for dynamic, collaborative approaches to textbook authorship, quality assurance and publishing. In addition to the cost-saving aspect, open textbooks provide a means through which to engage students as co-creators and share teaching and learning materials beyond the institution. The UCT Open Textbook Award is positioned with an explicit social justice agenda and recognises activities that support the university’s transformation efforts. In line with this approach, the award recognises open textbook development efforts which address any of the following criteria:
- Pedagogical innovation
- Curriculum transformation
- Decolonisation
- Inclusion of students as partners
- Profiling/inclusion of marginalised voices
- Relevance to local context
- Multilingualism
- Disability access
- Technical innovation
The call for nominations for the 2024 UCT Open Textbook Award is now open!
Nomination submission deadline: 28 July 2024
Click here to access the nomination form
The UCT Open Textbook award carries a value of R30 000 and may be shared between more than one recipient. There is no time limit in terms of publication date. Prior award recipients are asked to observe a two-year waiting period before submitting nominations for subsequently published works.
Review and selection process
• Proposals will be screened for eligibility
• Eligible proposals will be evaluated
• The award committee and invited subject experts will review the open textbooks
• Successful applicant/s will be notified by 30 November 2024
Please submit nominations and address any queries to Dr Glenda Cox.
Nomination submission deadline: 28 July 2024
Click here to access the nomination form
The UCT Open Textbook award carries a value of R30 000 and may be shared between more than one recipient. There is no time limit in terms of publication date. Prior award recipients are asked to observe a two-year waiting period before submitting nominations for subsequently published works.
Review and selection process
• Proposals will be screened for eligibility
• Eligible proposals will be evaluated
• The award committee and invited subject experts will review the open textbooks
• Successful applicant/s will be notified by 30 November 2024
Please submit nominations and address any queries to Dr Glenda Cox.
For more details on the award and an overview of previous award winners, visit the Digital Open Textbooks for Development website.
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