OER Websites and Repositories to Which Africa Contributes

The African Storybook website has thousands of openly licensed free picture storybooks in the languages of Africa for children’s literacy, enjoyment and imagination. It also has tools for the translation, adaptation and creation of picture storybooks for children aged two to ten (early childhood and first three years of primary school).

Open Research Africa publishes scholarly articles and other research outputs (e.g. posters, slides and documents), reporting basic scientific, scholarly, translational and clinical research across the physical and life sciences, engineering, medicine, social sciences and humanities.

AfricArXiv is a free community-led digital archive for African research. It provides a platform for African scientists to upload their working papers, preprints, accepted manuscripts (post-prints), and published papers. It also provides options to link data and code, and for article versioning.

Most of Wikipedia's text and many of its images are co-licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA).

WikiAfrica is an international movement across the African continent and beyond that encourages individuals and organisations to create, expand and enhance online content on Wikipedia about Africa.

In addition, the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions has been running training for librarians on Wikipedia. The training has been funded by the Wikimedia Foundation.

The OERu makes higher education accessible to everyone. Coordinated by the OER Foundation, an independent, not-for-profit organisation, the OERu network of institutions offers free online courses for students worldwide. The OERu partners also provide affordable ways for learners to gain academic credit towards qualifications from recognised institutions.

Partners from Africa include:

• The University of Namibia;
• Botswana Open University;
• North-West University, South Africa; and
• The University of South Africa.

OpenUCT is the open access institutional repository of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It makes available and digitally preserves the scholarly outputs produced at UCT, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, technical and research reports, and open educational resources. These resources are organised into collections that are mapped against the university's organisational structure.

The Early Learning Resource Network is an online platform designed to help governments and others working in education find and download open licensed children’s books and instructional materials for foundational literacy and numeracy programs.

The ELRN also offers easy access to a wide range of other materials, including practical guidance on book procurement, book design, and parent/caregiver resources. The ELRN is growing rapidly with more resources, books, and languages added every day.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers. The scope of Commons is set out on the project scope pages.

OpenLearn is an Open University initiative offering free courses to the public. These courses are comprised of articles, educational packages including images and videos on a range of fields including Psychology,Sports and Health.

Health Education and Training (HEAT) Programme offers courses with the focus on rural community diseases, particularly those without health care. Their course's are structured specifically to meet these needs

Mindset Learn supports learners and teachers in formal schooling with a focus on Grades 10, 11 and 12 and the Maths, Sciences, Social Sciences and Finance clusters of subjects. All content is produced to the highest educational and production standards and is aligned with the Curriculum Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS). Content is in video format and is supported by PDF notes and computer based interactive lessons.