Collaborative Materials Design, Adaptation and Take-Up: A Case Study of a South African Mathematics Teacher Education OER project.
The case studies and reflections in this book cover OER practice and policy in a diverse range of contexts, with a strong focus on events in developing countries. In J. Glennie, Harley, K., Butcher, N., and van Wyk, T. (Eds.), Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice (pp. 75-90). more
Developing and Using Quality Learning Resources in an Open Educational Environment: The SAIDE ACEMaths Project.
This paper is a reflective report on the Saide ACEMaths project,which piloted a collaborative approach to the sourcing, adaptation and publication as Open Educational Resources (OERs) of existing suitable materials for use in a variety of teacher education programmes. more
An OER Protocol: Guidelines for Publishing Teacher Education OER.
DHET has put in place a European Union funded Strengthening Foundation Phase Teacher Education Programme. In terms of the contract with the institutions participating in the programme , all materials produced will be released as Open Educational Resources (OER). The purpose of the Protocol is to guide the Department in managing the publication of these materials as OER on their Teaching... more
Developing and deploying OERs in sub-Saharan Africa: Building on the present
This article builds on existing information and communication technology (ICT) implementation plans in Africa and on the experiences of organizations and initiatives such as the African Virtual University (AVU), OER Africa, the South African Institute of Distance Education (SAIDE), and the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) Project, to present one view of the benefits,... more
Conceptualising Open Educational Practices in teacher education in East Africa.
This paper draws on data from recent interviews with thirty teacher educators in Mauritius, Tanzania and Uganda undertaken in an ROER4D impact study. The teacher educators had been identified as engaging with OER and the interviews explored the implications of this use of OER in and for practice. Drawing on this empirical data and the literature a framework of indicators for quality open... more
Collaborative design and use of open educational resources: a case study of a Mathematics teacher education project in South Africa. Distance Education for Empowerment and Development in Africa, 32(2), 195-211.
The study investigated whether the collaborative redesigning of existing materials can enhance quality while containing time and resource costs and whether such collaboration encourages buy-in to the use of OER by teacher educators and students. more
South Africa at a glance: SACMEQ at a glance series.
The Southern and Eastern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) is a consortium of education ministries, policy-makers and researchers who, in conjunction with UNESCO?s International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), aims to improve the research capacity and technical skills of educational planners (Ross et al., 2005). more
Digital Learning: Reforming teacher education to promote access, equity and quality in Sub-Saharan Africa. Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning.
The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the present and future impact of digital learning on teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of the report is student-teachers and teachers, and its central argument is that existing institutional structures will be insufficient to meet the scale of demand for well-prepared, qualified teachers. The report describes digitally... more
Challenges and instructors' intention to adopt and use Open Educational Resources in higher education in Tanzania. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Education, 15(1), 249-271.
The study applied the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) model to elicit instructors? intention to adopt and use OER in teaching. The paper also investigated challenges that hinder instructors to adopt and use OER. more
Teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa: issues and challenges around teacher resources and practices. In R. Griffin (Ed.), Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa. Oxford: Symposium Books.
Research reports are presented highlighting the various challenges within the structure and provision of teacher education within certain national contexts, including assessment and curricula issues, which need to be addressed. more
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