Eve Gray

TL;DR: The South African Minister of Higher Education and Training Dr Blade Nzimande as mentioned in this paper identified the key challenges facing South African higher education and set out a path for overcoming these obstacles.

TL;DR: The University of Cape Town recently signed the Cape Town Open Education Declaration signalling its intent to make some of its traditional face-to-face teaching materials and processes available as OER.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the degrees of openness with respect to key attributes of OER, namely social, technical, legal and financial openness in an attempt to make the task of identifying where changes could be made to existing teaching materials or processes a little easier for the lecturer and the educational technologist alike.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that African scholarly research is relatively invisible globally because even though research production on the continent is growing in absolute terms, it is falling in comparative terms, and traditional metrics of visibility, such as the Impact Factor, fail to make legible all African scholarly production.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the discourse of research publication policy and the directives of the regional and global organizations that advise African countries with respect to their relevance to African scholarly communication, and argue that the policies put in place to advance African research effectively act as an impediment to ambitions for a revival of a form of scholarship that could drive continental growth.