Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice
This book is evidence of the solid progress being made in response to the challenges flagged at the 2009 UNESCO conferences discussing the potential of OER. Activity in developing countries accounts for the majority of the work reported here, and the experience of using and repurposing OER receives as much coverage as their initial development. Other papers describe how OER can be fitted... more
Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources
This study was commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning as an input to the World OER Congress organized by UNESCO in June 2012. The authors, Neil Butcher and Sarah Hoose situate the contribution of OER in the wider context of the challenges facing education at all levels in an era of economic stringency. They relate OER to the realities of the teaching-learning process, arguing that... more
Open Practices in Higher Education: Trends and Possibilities for Africa
This report, based on a desktop review, unpacks the possibilities of opennes in African higher education, launching the discussion with a presentation and explanation of the concepts and icons associated with various tenets of open practice. The discussion then moves on to explore the factors leading to the rise of openness, including a social inclination towards opennes, government... more
Infrastructure in Africa - February 2009
The data makes it easy to apply a deficit model to project planning, but we need to start with what we have and how we can build off it OER projects must work with what is available now, not demonstrate what would be possible if only the constraints were different but paradoxically we must hold in our minds a vision of a radically different future from the one that current trends project ?... more
Deploying OER to meet Higher Education needs in Africa, (23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education) June 2009
African higher education institutions seriously structurally under-funded for the core function they are expected to discharge. Therefore, corresponding paucity of institutional and individual capacity to teach in many domains of higher education. Too few learning resources for learners and lecturers in African universities, and many of those available are too expensive to be purchased by... more
Education Technology Strategy Template
A document that shows sections headings to guide the writing of institutional education technology strategy documents. more
Working Towards Fundable Projects
This presentation is used to help build capacity in writing funding proposals for education technology projects in Higher Education institutions more
