Resources for New Ways of Learning: A Manual for Developers of Learning Resources
During 2005 Saide conducted a series of workshops to build the capacity of a group of educators from FET colleges in course design and learning resource development. From the outset we envisaged the need for a manual that would support people who participated in the workshops as well as their colleagues. The manual is a practical resource that enables us to capture and reformat the various... more
Open Textbook Proof-of-Concept via Connexions
To address the high cost of textbooks, Rice University?s Connexions and the Community College Open Textbook Project (CCOTP) collaborated to develop a proof-of-concept free and open textbook. The proof-of-concept served to document a workflow process that would support adoption of open textbooks. Open textbooks provide faculty and students with a low cost alternative to traditional publishers... more
Open Educational Resources: New Possibilities for Change and Sustainability
In an attempt to understand the potential of OER for change and sustainability, this paper presents the results of an informal survey of active and inactive collections of online educational resources, emphasizing data related to collection longevity and the project attributes associated with it. Through an analysis of the results of this survey, in combination with other surveys of OER... more
Incentives and Disincentives for Use of Open Courseware.
This article examines Utah residents' views of incentives and disincentives for the use of OpenCourseWare (OCW), and how they fit into the theoretical framework of perceived innovation attributes established by Rogers (1983). Rogers identified five categories of perceived innovation attributes: relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability. A survey... more
From Open Content to Open Course Models: Increasing Access and Enabling Global Participation in Higher Education
Two of the major challenges to international students' right of access to higher education are geographical/economic isolation and academic literacy in English (Carey, 1999; Hamel, 2007). The authors propose that adopting open course models in traditional universities, through blended or online delivery, can offer benefits to the institutions and to the open education movement itself, in... more
ACEMaths
The aim of SAIDE ACEMaths project was to pilot a collaborative process for the selection, adaptation and use of OER materials for teacher education programmes in South Africa. Over a period of two years we adapted, piloted and revised a set of materials on the teaching and learning of maths for teacher education. These are now available for downloading FOR FREE in two formats - for printing... more
Creating Learning Materials for Open and Distance Learning: A Handbook for Authors and Instructional Designers
This handbook has been written for anyone who plans and writes learning materials for use in open and distance learning (ODL). Anyone who is interested in producing better ODL materials will find something of value in this handbook. more
Course Review Instrument
This template provides guidelines for reviewing course materials. more
Module First Level Evaluation Template
We have included detailed explanations, as well as sample responses to these sets of questions. This questionnaire is designed to be completed digitally, as then adequate space can be created for all responses. If it is to be used as a hard copy, we suggest that additional photocopies of these pages be made in advance. more
Materials Development Contract - Example
This is an example contract for materials development projects more
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