The AVU Open Educational Resources (OER) architecture for Higher Education in Africa: Discussion paper. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co?operation and Development.
Aims to generate a dialogue around our shared desire to see a collaborative and coordinated strategy for the creation, organization, dissemination and utilization of OERs in general and in Africa in particular. more
Education. Pretoria: Government Communication and Information System.
Examines implementation of OER and technology in the education system in South Africa. more
Insights from the Health OER Inter-Institutional Project. Distance Education, 32(2), 213-227.
Draws upon data from the various evaluations of the African Helath OER Network project as a basis for generating understandings on initiating and sustaining OER in African contexts. more
Revisiting the challenges for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of the Open Educational Resources movement.
Investigates the key challenges to Higher Education (HE) in SSA and identifies those areas in which OER could contribute significantly to finding solutions to those challenges. more
Sustaining OER at the University of Cape Town: Free, but not cheap. OpenEd 2010 Conference, 2?4 November 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
Reviews the range of sustainability strategies of OER mentioned in literature, plots the results of a small-scale OER sustainability survey against these strategies and explains how these findings and other papers on OER initiatives were used to inform an in-house workshop at UCT to deliberate the future strategy for the sustainability of OER at UCT. more
Open Educational Resources and pedagogical practices in African Higher Education: A perspective from the ROER4D Project. Keynote presentation at Transform 2015 Colloquium, 6-10 April 2015.
Explains how the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project is using desktop regional reviews, cross-regional surveys, cross regional and country case studies, action research studies and focused impact studies to establish in what ways, and under what circumstances the adoption of OER can impact upon a range of educational aspects. Focuses specifically on... more
Utilising Open Educational Resources (OER) in Support of Curriculum Transformation at Africa Nazarene University
This OER Africa presentation, made at the ALARA 9th Action Learning Research Congress in November 2015, discusses the participatory action research approach that is being used at the Africa Nazarene University (ANU). more
The Roles of Libraries and Information Professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiatives: Survey Report
The study focuses on the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in open educational resources (OER) initiatives. This research study contributes to the current Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer] [1], an initiative by JISC and the HEA whose objective is to promote the... more
Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in US Higher Education
This online report from the Babson Survey Research Group is an output on a survey of academic leaders between 2009 - 201 on their knowledge, use and opinion of OER. In addition, surveys were conducted asking faculty in higher education and academic technology administrators their opinions of these resources. Finally, the survey of faculty investigated their use of social media also asked for... more
Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
In this report the Committee for Economic Development examines higher education through the lens of openness. Their goal was to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information?its creation, analysis, and transmission and the development of the skills... more
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