TESSA Working with Teachers: A Handbook for Teacher Educators
TESSA provides collaboratively developed open educational resources (OERs) for teachers to use in their own classroom to support active learning methods and reflective practice. This handbook is for teacher educators and others involved in planning and delivery of teacher development whether formal or less formal, and in a range of settings. It provides guidance and starting points on using... more
Resources for New Ways of Learning: A Manual for Developers of Learning Resources
During 2005 Saide conducted a series of workshops to build the capacity of a group of educators from FET colleges in course design and learning resource development. From the outset we envisaged the need for a manual that would support people who participated in the workshops as well as their colleagues. The manual is a practical resource that enables us to capture and reformat the various... more
Module First Level Evaluation Template
We have included detailed explanations, as well as sample responses to these sets of questions. This questionnaire is designed to be completed digitally, as then adequate space can be created for all responses. If it is to be used as a hard copy, we suggest that additional photocopies of these pages be made in advance. more
The Saide ACEMaths Project: Final Report
A reflective report on the Saide ACEMaths project, which piloted a collaborative approach to the sourcing, adaptation and publication as Open Educational Resources (OERs) of existing suitable materials for use in a variety of South African teacher education programmes. more
The Saide Materials Design Wheel Review Tool
This is a review tool suitable for both materials design and materials evaluation. It is based on an evolving Saide approach to materials design inspired by the concept of the learning cycle developed by Ian Moll when he was at Saide. more
Saide's OER initiatives
A presentation by Tessa Welch to the DETA (Distance Education and Teacher Training in Africa) conference, 7 August 2007 on /Saide's/ OER initiatives (before OER Africa was born). It provides a useful insight into what OERs are and how their vision can be realised in various ways. more
80 Open Education Resource (OER) Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives
This list includes 80 online resources that can be used to learn how to build or participate in a collaborative educational effort that focuses on publication and development of materials. Although some choices focus solely on publication, development, or tools used to accomplish either effort, some provide multifacited venues that offer communities a space to collaborate on one or all of... more
