OER Initiatives in Africa
OER Initiatives in Africa
Displaying 11 - 20 of 37African Council for Distance Education (ACDE)
The African Council for Distance Education (ACDE) is a continental educational organization comprising African universities and other higher education institutions, which are committed to expanding access to quality education and training through Open and Distance Learning (ODL) including e-Learning. It is a unifying body of distance education providers and practitioners in Africa, ACDE and... more
Molteno's Vula Bula Project
Vula Bula, an initiative of Molteno Institute for Language Literacy, is graded reading programme is unique in that each series originates from the respective indigenous South African language - as opposed to being translated from English - and is carefully designed in accordance with the natural phonic progression of that language. more
openAfrica
openAFRICA is a free public and independent source for open data for Africa, maintained by Code for Africa. Data can be downloaded, uploaded, stored, or made available publicly. Search for data by country. openAFRICA runs with support from the Africa Media Initiative (AMI), the World Bank Institute (WBI), and Google. more
School of Open
School of Open is an initiative run by a global community of volunteers providing free online courses, face-to-face workshops, and innovative training programs on the meaning, application, and impact of 'openness' in the digital age. School of Open also provides educational materials on how to add a Creative Commons license to work, and free resources for classroom use, remix a music video,... more
Obami
The Obami portal contains modules and activities for elementary students to learn about Creative Commons, content licensing, and resource exchange. more
AfriVIP- The African Veterinary Information Portal
All the materials of AfriVIP are Open Education Resources (OER) and therefore carry an open license (Creative Commons), allowing it to be freely copied, distributed, and adapted without asking copyright permission. One of our objectives is to have access to other relevant repositories in Africa and further afield to ensure that the AfriVIP becomes a preferential point of access not only for... more
Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT)
The Open Resources for English Language Teaching (ORELT) portal supports classroom activities of teachers of junior secondary schools (JSS). The ORELT project aims to provide a bank of open content multi-media resources in online and traditional text formats that will support school based education and training for teachers in junior secondary schools and provide open content support... more
OER@AVU
The African Virtual University (AVU) is a Pan African Intergovernmental Organization established by charter with the mandate of significantly increasing access to quality higher education and training through the innovative use of information communication technologies. more
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) OER
KNUST OER seeks to promote open learning through an open exploration that enables faculty, students and the global academic community to access open licensed educational resources to maximize the impact and reach of their scholarly work through open sharing. more
MERLOT African Network (MAN)
MAN is a network of partnerships between African and US educational institutions affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) and leading global eLearning providers with educational programs targeting Sub-Saharan Africa. MAN's goal is to facilitate communities of eLearning expertise and capacity building for open education, scholarship, and... more