Producing OER from Scratch: The Case of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.
OER activity in developing countries accounts for the majority of the work reported in the book, and the experience of using and repurposing OER receives as much coverage as their initial development. Other papers describe how OER can be fitted most productively into the wider educational ecosystem. more
OER readiness in Africa: A report submitted to the OLnet Project, August 2010. Barcelona: OLnet.
Small scale project to assess Africa's readiness to adopt OER. This involved an assessment of the technical and human related factors. By technical factors the study was to look at the status of existing technological infrastructure, establish the extent it supports creation, access and use/re-use of OER, and identify existing gaps or limitations. The human factors consisted of elements such... more
"It's part of my campaign": Using Perceived Attributes as a framework to understand postgraduate students' adaption of academics' teaching materials as OER. In Cambridge 2012: Innovation and Impact ? Openly Collaborating to Enhance Education.
Dynamics of adoption and usage of ICTs in African universities: A study of Kenya and Nigeria. Technovation, 24(10), 841?851.
Explores the dynamics of Internet adoption and usage in African universities.Results suggest mixed demographic significance. Among academics, age is positively correlated with use while we found no significant gender disparity in Internet use. Individual income and institutional provision of end-user facilities influence adoption and use. Internet use for research and teaching is still... more
OER in Africa's higher education institutions. Distance Education, 32(2), 277-287.
Examines OER adoption in African higher education institutions more
365 days of Openness: The emergence of OER at the University of Cape Town. In R. McGreal, W. Kinuthia, S. Marshall & T. McNamara (Eds.), Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources
Reviews the first year of UCT?s OER initiative, recount how the Centre for Educational Technology (CET) developed an institutional directory using a customised version of the open source software Drupal, highlights the signs of change in the UCT landscape and explain how UCT is extending its open footprint through a more encompassing Open UCT initiative more
Exploring the barriers and enablers to the use of open educational resources by university academics in Africa. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology Conference Proceedings.
The objectives of the research study are to explore the inhibitors and enablers are experienced by academics that use OER, and what barriers prevent academics from using OER. The sample consists of academics from East, West and Southern Africa. Information was gathered by means of a survey questionnaire. more
Open Educational resources, international cooperation and teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa. In EADTU's 20th Anniversary Conference, 8-9 Nov 2007. Lisbon, Portugal.
Argues that the exponential growth in connectivity, the emergence of the ?social web? and the freedoms and philosophies of the Open Educational Resource Movement (OERs) present a mix of phenomena that have come together in time to offer highly significant modes of education and training. Open educational resources, international co-operation and teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF... more
"The best part was the contact!": Understanding postgraduate students? experiences of wrapped MOOCs. Open Praxis. 9(2), 207?221.
Explores the contribution of face-to-face, facilitated sessions to the learning experiences of wrapped MOOC participants. Interviews, surveys and course evaluations were analysed using the Community of Inquiry (CoI) framework. more
Differentiation in access to, and the use and sharing of (Open) Educational Resources among students and lecturers at Kenyan universities. Presented at OEGlobal 2017, 8?10 March 2017. Cape Town, South Africa.
Empirical data have been generated by the use of a student and a lecturer questionnaire to which in total 798 students and 43 lecturers have responded. The outcomes give insight into the differentiation in access to (Open) Educational Resources, and in ways that they are using and sharing these resources. more
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