A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education
The quality assurance of post-traditional higher education is not straightforward, because openness and flexibility are primary characteristics of these new approaches, whereas traditional approaches to quality assurance were designed for teaching and learning within more tightly structured frameworks. This guide, structured in the form of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, grapples with this... more
Survey on Governments' Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies: Prepared for the World OER Congress June 2012
This report provides an overview of the findings of the COL/UNESCO survey on OER policies and activity across all countries of the world. more
Guide to gaining ethical consent from patients for content released as OER
OER Africa has developed a guide for OER creators to obtain consent from patients who participate in an OER project. The guide covers general ethical principles to consider as well the importance of obtaining consent in line with the cultural context within which one is working. more
Guidelines for developing OER at UWC Faculty of Dentistry
These guidelines have arisen from the University of Western Cape (UWC) Faculty of Dentistry’s experiences of participating in the African Health OER pilot project. It covers copyright policy, attribution and acknowledgement procedures, and the peer review process for content released as Open Education Resources (OER). more