Building African education capacity through openness
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- Open Learning’ conference
National College for School Leaders...
Wednesday, November 25 at 9:00am
OER Africa
OER Africa gave a keynote address on ‘OER in developing countries’ at
the Open Learning Conference held at the Learning and Conference
Centre, Nottingham, on the 25 November 2009. The
focus of this address was that OER presents an opportunity to overhaul
how we think about and practice higher education - and how education... as
a collaborative endeavour - a cornerstone of the OER movement - is far
more likely to result in success than going it alone. Click here - http://www.oerafrica.org/Home/OEREvents/
www.oerafrica.org
OER Africa
New resources added to the OER Africa website, to search/browse for these resources click here - http://www.oerafrica.org/understandingoe
1. Teaching and Learning Against all Odds: A Video-Based Study of Learner-to-Instructor Interaction in International Distance Education.
2. Explo...ring Blended Learning for Science Teacher Professional Development in an African Context.
3. The CU Online Handbook Teach differently: Create and Collaborate.
4. Usability in e-Learning Platforms: Heuristics Comparison Between Moodle, Sakai and dotLRN.
5. Learning Management Systems (LMS) for CSU – Sakai Selected.
6. LMS Options and Comparisons.
7. E-Learning and Management Information Systems.
8. Access to Open Educational Resources: Report of a UNESCO OER Community Discussion.
9. Analysis of Emerging Trends Affecting the Use of Technology in Education: Research to Support the Delivery and Development of Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning 2008-14.
10. A Study on the Effective Use of Social Software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to Support Student Learning and Engagement.
11. Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs for Development.
12. Perceived Characteristics as Correlates of ICT Adoption in Makerere University.
13. An Environment Analysis of Open Education Resources: Are They Sustainable?
14. Supportive Social Networks: Community-based Learner Support in Online Learning.
15. E-portfolios as tools to assess generic competences in distance learning study courses
16. Building an effective ‘Open Education Resource’ (OER) Environment for Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: The TESSA Experience.
17. Change at Hand: Web 2.0 For Development.
18. Boosting Student Achievement in Post-Secondary General Chemistry With the ARIS Online Learning and Course Management System: College of Charleston.
19. Boosting Student Achievement in Post-Secondary General Chemistry With the ARIS Online Learning and Course Management System: University of Texas at Dallas.
20. What's New in ARIS?
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OER Africa
Copyright and licensing issues are at the heart of OER as they have
important implications for creators, for users and, for their
institutions. Not surprisingly, then, these issues permeate discussion
and debate on the creation and reuse of OER. OER Africa has put together a copyright and licensing toolkit which provides ...an
overview of copyright and alternatives to copyright licensing. Visit this space here - http://www.oerafrica.org/CopyrightandLic
OER Africa
The ‘Open Learning’ conference offers you the opportunity to engage with Open Learning experts and consider the benefits and challenges for educational institutions when making learning material freely available over the internet.
The conference will examine the essential questions with a thought provoking mix of key n...ote speakers and presenters, including, senior academics from The University of Nottingham, OER community and OER Africa.
There will be a comprehensive conference programme including parallel events allowing detailed discussion of topics.
Time:9:00AM Wednesday, November 25th
Location:National College for School Leadership - Learning and Conference Centre, Nottingham
OER Africa
UNESCO has released a report on Access to OER and this report is
a synthesis of a discussion that took place in early 2009 discussing access and constraints to OERs. One of the aims of the discussion was to stimulate further work in this area by formulating concrete proposals. Two such proposals have emerged from this d...iscussion:
1. Introducing digital Open Education Resources Into Zambian primary schools through school-based professional development.
2. Continued engagement through the UK National Commission for UNESCO. A first meeting will take place on 25th/26th November in conjunction with the Nottingham Open Learning Conference and in conjunction with OER Africa.” Click here to download the resource - http://www.oerafrica.org/understandingoe
Etienne G Terre'Blanche Ubuntu, let us work together to make the world a better place!
Derek Open Access week is from the 19 – 23 October http://www.openaccessweek.org/. Is OER Africa doing anything to promote the cause?
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The worldwide tally of Open Access mandatory policies reached the milestone of 100 when on Friday 16 October the University of Salford announced its policy, which will be implemented from January 2010.
Vuma Portal Hello - The VUMA! Portal, another African educational online resource, has been completely updated! Make sure to visit www.vuma.ac.za to see an updated VUMA! http://www.vuma.ac.za
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Fiona OER Africa will be a valuable resource and link for the African Centre for Childhood (ACC). The ACC aims to develop freely available education resources for people working with vulnerable children in Africa. We will certainly be putting a link to OER Africa when our new website goes up next month.
Tessa Welch
We have just had a wonderful two day workshop to conceptualise a Teacher Education Space on OER Africa - with resources to help teacher educators plan and deliver
teacher education programmes and courses, and a network of people involved
with teacher education in Africa.
OER Africa OER Africa has set up a 'Using Technology' space to function as a one-stop shop for materials that an African university can use to understand educational technology and requirements for its successful use within a university. This space has materials and guides aimed at overcoming institutional barriers and deploying ...educational technologies in Higher Education institutions. Users can engage with case studies to learn how successfully to deploy educational technologies in their institution.
www.oerafrica.org
1. Draft New Zealand Government Open Access and Licensing Framework (NZGOAL). 2. Report on the Learning4Content Project: Prepared for the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. 3. eIFL-IP Draft Law on Copyright: Including Model Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Consumers...
OER Africa OER Africa is compiling a toolkit to helpinstitutions develop policies that support OER. We need examples of policies or clauses in existing policies that were adapted to enable institutions to harness OER. If you have policies that youare willing to share, please post the links to this page so we can incorporate them ...in ourwebsite. Or just let us know and we will send you a message to followup the lead.
Vivienne Bozalek Thanks for invitation - I hope to have more to do with OER Africa in the future
Sally Reynolds There are lots of OER initiatives in Europe who would be really keen to share with OER Africa, EdReNe http://edrene.org is a good source of information!
edrene.org
EdReNe brings together members from webbased repositories of learning resources with content owners and other stakeholders within education.We share, develop and document strategies, experiences and solutions on the organisation, structuring and functionality of repositories. ...
