OER Africa is developing and testing innovative alternative approaches to continuing professional development (CPD) for academics. These approaches comprise learning pathways (LPs) for university academic staff that will enable them to improve their teaching and learning capacity using OER.
In contrast to traditional workshop-based professional development, the standalone online LPs consist of short tutorials that engage participants in authentic learning tasks. They also provide access to useful, up-to-date Open Educational Resources (OER).
Finding Open Content
Authored: June 2019
Revised: May 2020
A short, simple tutorial to acquire the skills necessary to search for open content, decipher Creative Commons rights and permissions, and evaluate the usefulness of OER for new purposes.
Spanish version: Encontrar Contenido Abierto
Authored: December 2020
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Adapting Open Content
Authored: January 2020
Revised: May 2020
This learning pathway provides a quick and simple solution to adapting open content for new purposes.
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Publish using Open Access
Authored: May 2020
This is a short learning pathway to acquire the skills necessary to publish or advise on publishing research using Open Access (OA).
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Design for Learning: How do we learn?
Authored: October 2020
This learning pathway provides guidance to design and create effective learning environments.
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Communicate Research Findings
Authored: January 2021
This learning pathway provides guidance on how to change a research paper into an easy-to-read summary which can be shared outside academia.
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Access information about LPs that are still in development here.