An empirical investigation of the emergent issues around OER adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa. Learning, Media and Technology, 37(4), 398?413.
This paper argues for a complete mind shift in how people perceive OERs. It also proposes raising awareness of OERs at all levels, involving institutions and government, versioning OERs for the African context and conducting more research on OER adoption. more
Investigating perceived barriers to the use of open educational resources in higher education in Tanzania.
Findings revealed that lack of access to computers and the Internet, low Internet bandwidth, absence of policies, and lack of skills to create and/or use OER are the main barriers to the use of OER in HEIs in Tanzania. Contrary to findings elsewhere in Africa, the study revealed that lack of trust in others' resources, lack of interest in creating and/or using OER, and lack of time to find... more
A Needs Assessment of ODL Educators to Determine their Effective Use of Open Educational Resources
This paper assessed the needs, readiness, and willingness of ODL professionals from two dual-mode universities in Nigeria to deploy OER in teaching and learning. more
Knowledge Dissemination in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Open Educational Resources (OER)?
Examines strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of OER to improve access at universities to scientific knowledge and educational facilities 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.
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
A study of the relationship between institutional policy, organisational culture and e-learning use in four South African universities. Computers and Education
Examines the relationship between institutional policy, organisational culture and e-learning use in four South African universities. more
Researching Resistance to Open Education Resource Contribution.
Aims to ascertain whether Engestro?m?s activity theory and its principle of contradictions is a sufficiently versatile and insightful lens to investigate non-participation of OER contribution. Activity theory was found to be useful for framing the literature and three interviews with University of Cape Town (UCT) academics and for surfacing some of the constraints in the system. An Activity... more
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