The AVU Open Educational Resources (OER) architecture for Higher Education in Africa: Discussion paper. Paris: Organisation for Economic Co?operation and Development.
Aims to generate a dialogue around our shared desire to see a collaborative and coordinated strategy for the creation, organization, dissemination and utilization of OERs in general and in Africa in particular. more
Education. Pretoria: Government Communication and Information System.
Examines implementation of OER and technology in the education system in South Africa. more
Insights from the Health OER Inter-Institutional Project. Distance Education, 32(2), 213-227.
Draws upon data from the various evaluations of the African Helath OER Network project as a basis for generating understandings on initiating and sustaining OER in African contexts. more
Revisiting the challenges for Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The role of the Open Educational Resources movement.
Investigates the key challenges to Higher Education (HE) in SSA and identifies those areas in which OER could contribute significantly to finding solutions to those challenges. more
Sustaining OER at the University of Cape Town: Free, but not cheap. OpenEd 2010 Conference, 2?4 November 2010. Barcelona, Spain.
Reviews the range of sustainability strategies of OER mentioned in literature, plots the results of a small-scale OER sustainability survey against these strategies and explains how these findings and other papers on OER initiatives were used to inform an in-house workshop at UCT to deliberate the future strategy for the sustainability of OER at UCT. more
Open Educational Resources and pedagogical practices in African Higher Education: A perspective from the ROER4D Project. Keynote presentation at Transform 2015 Colloquium, 6-10 April 2015.
Explains how the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project is using desktop regional reviews, cross-regional surveys, cross regional and country case studies, action research studies and focused impact studies to establish in what ways, and under what circumstances the adoption of OER can impact upon a range of educational aspects. Focuses specifically on... more
Transforming teaching with emerging technologies: implications for Higher Education Institutions.
The article concludes that, in order to foster a greater uptake or more institution-wide diffusion of use of emerging technologies, institutional opinion leaders need to purposefully create an enabling environment by giving recognition to and communicating with change agents, and developing policies that will encourage institutional-wide engagement with emerging technologies. more
Framework to understand postgraduate students? adaption of academics? teaching materials as OER. In A. Okada (2012), Open Educational Resources and Social Networks: Co-Learning and Professional Development.
Addresses a way of responding to one of the key challenges of OER contribution, namely academics? lack of time to re-purpose teaching materials originally intended for campus-based face-to-face lectures as stand-alone Open Educational Resources (OER). It describes how masters? students, tutors and interns at the University of Cape Town have been engaged to support the innovative practice of... more
Impact Study: African Health OER Network
A formative evaluation of the African Health OER Network: Impact Study. Nairobi, OER Africa, A Saide Initiative/University of Michigan Design Phase completed at the end of 2009 focused mainly on OER take-up and production in the partner institutions (OER Africa 2009). This evaluation concluded that expectations and contractual targets had been met, or exceeded by an impressive margin, with... more
Digital Fluency Course: Module 5 - Storage and Access of Digital Resources
This module aims to expand an understanding of digital storage and access with regard to a variety of files types and enabling platforms. It will hone skills in storing and retrieving digital resources using various technologies. This module is intended to address both academic and administrative skills: these skills can be applied in research, teaching and learning, and administration. With... more
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