Dearden, Andy and Walton, Marion and Densmore, Melissa (2021) Understanding Divergent Outcomes in Open Development Authors, Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction, MIT Press.
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Abstract
After much negotiation, UCT settled on a mixed approach, with each department selecting an approach that they felt would work best for them. Departments in the science faculty offered material online but opted not to hold exams on the material, making plans to shift examinations and teaching of necessary components to the next academic year. The law faculty moved entirely online, offering laptops and mobile Internet to any student who needed them. The health sciences faculty shut down entirely, making plans to teach and hold exams on the material in a minisemester at the beginning of the following year. The outcomes of these diverse approaches varied; however, it became clear through protests against academic exclusion in March and April 2017 that the activists felt that these measures were insufficient. It should be noted that the shutdowns took place in October and November each year. These protests can be understood as a continuation of that campaign—addressing the rights of some of the student activists—but these were not at the same level as the shutdown. In spite of an initial desire to open access to teaching materials through public sharing of educational resources online, this case demonstrates some of the ways in which this access is actually negotiated. Merely putting the material online was not sufficient. The act of opening teaching materials entailed addressing problems of data cost, physical resource access, and personal skills.
| Item Type: | Book chapter |
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| Additional Information: | Chapter 8 form ebook:Critical Perspectives on Open Development: Empirical Interrogation of Theory Construction |
| Subjects: | Theory of computation Applied computing Applied computing > Education |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Nov 2023 15:21 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Nov 2023 15:21 |
| URI: | https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1572 |
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