Lessons Learned About Coordinating Academic Partnerships from an International Network for Health Education
There is a growing trend of academic partnerships between U.S., Canadian, and European health science institutions and academic health centers in low- and middle-income countries. These partnerships often encounter challenges such as resource disparities and power differentials, which affect the motivations, expectations, balance of benefits, and results of the joint projects. Little has... more
OER in Teacher Education: Reflections from the OER Africa Teacher Education Network
This document is the result of a discussion within the African Teacher Education Network of OER Africa on the status of OER integration into teacher education. It provides some suggests regarding why OER should be integrated into teacher education as well as possible barriers and ways to overcome them. It provides insight into how different institutions in Africa are currently integrating... more
The Case for Openness: Access to Knowledge, Visibility, Influence, Participation and Quality
This article discusses the different roles of "openness" in education and how African universities can contribute and become more globally visible. more
'Going to Scale': Nuturing the Roots of Education Innovation in Africa
Start small but think big. That is an attractive approach to innovation and reform for education in Africa, where available resources often cannot meet expanding demand, schools are under-equipped, well prepared teachers and effective instructional materials are in short supply, and both access and quality remain uneven among different segments of the population. 'Going to scale' has proved... more
Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the Limits?
The first part of the paper reports on the outcomes of a joint UNESCO-COL project Taking OERs beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity. Its purpose was to expand understanding of the potential of OERs among university leaders and quality assurance officials in Africa and Asia, who have low awareness of this phenomenon. The project concluded with an intergovernmental policy forum where... more
Sharing the Garden: Working with OER in African Contexts
A presentation for the Learning Futures Festival Online 2010, Beyond Distance Research Alliance, University of Leicester. This presentation will argue that the key usefulness of OER in African context is that it creates an impetus for the discovery and sharing of high quality existing resources as OER that are otherwise unknown or simply the preserve of individual institutions or publishers... more
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