OER Africa provides you access to all the information you will need to learn about and benefit from Open Educational Resources (OER).

In brief, the concept of OER describes educational resources that are freely available for use by educators and learners, without an accompanying need to pay royalties or license fees. A broad spectrum of frameworks is emerging to govern how OER are licensed for use, some of which simply allow copying and others that make provision for users to adapt the resources that they use.

OER is not synonymous with online learning or e-learning, and indeed, in an African context, it is anticipated that many of the resources produced –while shareable in a digital format (both online and via offline formats such as CD-ROM) – will be printable. Thus, we anticipate that a very high percentage of resources of relevance to African education will be shared as RTF or similar files (for purposes of adaptation) and packaged as PDF files (for purposes of printing).