I recently made a presentation on OER in the Health sector for the South African Association of Health Educators. Here, I am trying to argue the case for using OER as a catalyst to return to a few fundamental principles in education, rather than allowing it to be coopted as just another fad in a long line of educational jargon. I hope it makes for interesting reading.

The nurses at Kamuzu College of Nursing want it all! They have embarked on an ambitious project that incorporates three new elements not really tried out before in Lilongwe or Blantyre. They are ...

• Using an e-learning platform

• Teaching using a Problem Based Learning (PBL) methodology

• Accessing and adapting Open Education Resources (OER)

While it might sound very ambitious the nurses preparing a certificate course in midwifery seem undaunted. IADP and OER Africa have joined forces to provide them with training and exposure they need to master these new components.

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I was asked to write this paper as an opinion piece - it will be published later this year. I hope it is a provocative effort to re-think why we are engaging with ICT in education and what we hope it will do for education.