UCT environmental change course an online winner

Going online with one of her courses has won UCT lecturer Dr Gina Ziervogel - in picture, middle, with colleagues Assoc Prof Laura Czerniewicz and Glenda Cox - a major international open-content award.

Ziervogel's third-year course, Vulnerability to Environmental Change, was selected as one of five - out of a possible 17,000 submitted by universities worldwide - to scoop the course Awards for OpenCourseWare Excellence in the category for text and still images, presented by the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC).