Oscar Oliver Eybers

Oscar Eybers is an academic literacy facilitator in the Unit for Academic Literacy at the University of Pretoria in southern Africa. He has taught various levels of literacy, spanning from pre-school children to scholars enrolled in higher education. Eybers is passionate about the roles academic literacy plays in cultivating students’ wellbeing, confidence and development in various scholarly disciplines. His current research focus areas include visual literacy, multilingualism and discourse analysis. Eybers’s PhD focused on interactions between social structures, culture and agency in novice science scholars mastering argumentative writing. He is keen to collaborate with transdisciplinary and international academics and activists.

Publications

AI Approaches to Literacy in Higher Education
AI Approaches to Literacy in Higher Education
Oscar Oliver Eybers, Alan Muller. © 2024. 285 pages.
The ongoing struggle to increase literacy within our population is one of the defining goals of education. Educational environments continue to incorporate more and more...
A GenAI Ontology for Academic Literacies Teaching and Learning Practices
A GenAI Ontology for Academic Literacies Teaching and Learning Practices
Oscar Oliver Eybers. © 2024. 22 pages.
In the ever-evolving higher education landscape, the integration of AI, particularly Generative AI (GenAI), is causing a profound shift. This chapter explores how GenAI is...
Afrocentric Ontology for Academic Literacies Development
Afrocentric Ontology for Academic Literacies Development
Oscar Oliver Eybers. © 2023. 17 pages.
The aim of this chapter is to share an Afrocentric ontology for academic literacies facilitators. An ontology is a conceptual framework wherein literacies facilitators may map...