HOME BLOGS FORUMS NEWS EVENTS  SIGN IN   JOIN 
UNDERSTANDING OER FINDING OER OER IN ACTION USING TECHNOLOGY ABOUT OER AFRICA
Home > Finding OER > African OER Projects
Resources by project
OER Repositories/Search
Share |

Important OER work has been, and continues to be, conducted on the African continent. The following list is not comprehensive but indicative of some of the most important ongoing OER projects on the African continent. It provides a showcase to links where people can go online to find African OER online.

Although we endeavour to ensure that all URLs posted on this site are active, in the case of external websites, this may not always be within our control. Where a URL is not active, please do try again, and if the situation persists, kindly advise the OER Africa website administrator and we shall update or remove the link from this site.

AFRICAN OER


ACEMaths Project
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. The ACEMaths module, Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Diverse Classrooms, is available for downloading for free in two formats - for printing (PDF), and for adaptation (Word).

URL:  www.oerafrica.org/acemaths
COUNTRY:    South Africa
 

Free Courseware Project
University of the Western Cape (UWC) - The Free Courseware Project promotes the publication and use of free dand open educational resources at the University of the Western Cape (UWC). The Free Courseware project is part of a broader move towards implementation of publicizing and producing open educational resources. 

URL:  http://freecourseware.uwc.ac.za/
COUNTRY:    South Africa
 

 

Health OER Inter-Institutional Project
This is a collaboration of institutions seeking to develop a sustainable and scalable model for the systematic rollout of OER to support health education on the continent. The OER materials produced in this initiative will be made freely available to students, faculty, and self-learners around the world through a Creative Commons license.

URL:  http://www.oerafrica.org/healthproject/
COUNTRY:    Ghana and South Africa
 

IADP-SADC Digital Resources Project
This project looks to extend the International Association for Digital Publications (IADP) Affordable Access project running in South African higher education institutions into universities in Malawi and Botswana. It has two main thrusts. Firstly to provide discounted digital texts to staff and students accessed from digital reading rooms as well as private laptops and secondly it promotes the creation, adaptation and remixing of Open Education Resources (OER) into texts to support the student body by providing cheap quality texts.

URL:  www.oerafrica.org/malawi
COUNTRY:    Ghana and South Africa
 
 

Leadership Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA) - The Leadership Initiative for Public Health in East Africa (LIPHEA) initiative aims to strengthen the capacity of Makerere University School of Public Health (MUSPH) and Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) to not only provide effective public health leadership for Uganda and Tanzania, but also to catalyze the training of public health leaders in the whole region.

URL:  http://www.liphea.org/
COUNTRY:   East Africa
 
 

MERLOT African Network (MAN)
MAN is a networked partnerships between African and US educational institutions affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) and leading Global eLearning Providers with development programs targeting Sub-Saharan Africa.  Network members work in partnership to develop collaborative projects for development and innovations in the best practices for using OER and OA as eLearning solutions.

URL:  http://man.merlot.org/index.html
COUNTRY:   Sub-Saharan Africa
 
 

Open Content UCT
The UCT OpenContent directory is the web portal for accessing open teaching and learning content from UCT. Produced by the Open Educational Resources project in the Centre for Educational Technology at UCT with the support of the Shuttleworth Foundation, the directory aims to showcase the teaching efforts of UCT academics and encourage the publication of open resources.

URL:  http://opencontent.uct.ac.za/
COUNTRY:   South Africa
 
 

Skills for a Changing World
MAN is a networked partnerships between African and US educational institutions affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) and leading Global eLearning Providers with development programs targeting Sub-Saharan Africa.  Network members work in partnership to develop collaborative projects for development and innovations in the best practices for using OER and OA as eLearning solutions.

URL:  http://www.oerafrica.org/oeraction/SkillsforaChangingWorld/tabid/324/Default.aspx
COUNTRY:   South Africa
 

Teacher Education in sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) - TESSA brings together teachers and teacher educators from across Africa. It offers a range of materials (Open Educational Resources) in four languages to support school based teacher education and training. At the eLearning Africa conference in Dakar, May 2009, TESSA was awarded the Leadership Award in the 2nd annual MAN-eLA Awards for Exemplary Open Education Resources (OER) Practices.  

URL:  www.tessafrica.net/
COUNTRY:   Ghana, Keynya, Nigeria, Rwands, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia


Home |  About Us |  Disclaimer |  Licensing Conditions |  Terms & Conditions |  Contact Us |  Feedback

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
OER Africa is an initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide)