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Call for nominations: 2025 UCT Open Textbook Award

09 April 2025 | DVC Prof Brandon Collier-Reed

Dear colleagues and students

The UCT Open Textbook 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 the University of Cape Town (UCT).

Open textbooks are freely available, openly licensed educational resources available without cost to the user. The open, dynamic processes associated with their production also provide opportunities to engage students, community members and academic colleagues in collaborative approaches to authorship, quality assurance and publishing.

The UCT Open Textbook Award has a social justice focus and aims to recognise activities that support the university’s transformation efforts. In line with this approach, the award recognises open textbook development initiatives 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, including use of generative AI

The award may be made to single- or multiple-authored books. No restriction is placed on disciplinary orientation, language or format in which the book is written. There is also no restriction in terms of the publication date of the work. All nominated works must carry a Creative Commons or similar open license.

The UCT Open Textbook Award carries a value of R30 000 and may be shared between more than one recipient.

Nominations are now open for the 2025 UCT Open Textbook Award. Nominations can be made by open textbook authors or by a third party. The deadline for nominations is 31 July 2025.

Sincerely

Professor Brandon Collier-Reed
Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Teaching and Learning

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