Jonathan Shock’s open textbook journey

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Jonathan Shock was awarded a grant from the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project to develop a series of chapters for a first-year mathematics textbook “Introduction to University Level Mathematics for a South African Audience.” The first of these chapters, ‘Introduction to Complex Numbers’ (co-authored with Mashudu Mokhithi), was published in the OpenUCT repository in 2020. The aim was to develop an open access book at the University of Cape Town (UCT) which would be multiformat (online and print), inclusive (culturally and linguistically), and tailored for the South African school leaver. The paper provides details of this successful project.

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OPEN ACCESS, DIGITIZATION, TEXTBOOKS, LICENSING, CASE STUDIES, EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION, DIGITAL INCLUSION, OPEN DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT, MATHEMATICS, PUBLISHING, OD4D, OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA

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