Open, inclusive education and social justice: The role of open textbooks

Abstract

Open education, specifically open textbooks have been put forward as a way of creating localised relevant versions of prescribed costly textbooks that originate in the Global North. This presentation will provide an overview of the IDRC funded Digital Open Textbooks for Development project, an institutional initiative which is aimed at conducting research on open textbook publishing at the University of Cape Town (UCT), the project seeks to provide empirical evidence of the use of a Social Justice framework to understand the role of open textbooks in transforming curriculum.