University of Nairobi Open Access Policy
The Open Access policy will provide our scholars the opportunity and platform to promote their academic work by enhancing access to research outputs. Further, the policy will enhance the visibility and impact of our research output and archiving of our scholarly materials. more
Digital Pedagogy, New Media Literacies and Open Educational Resources: Exploring the Impact of Digital Resources in Higher Education
This thesis examines the way digital technologies affect Higher Education and how they possibly will shape education in the time to come. In order to achieve this, three focus areas are explored: Digital Pedagogy, New Media Literacies and Didactics. more
Open Data as Open Educational Resources: Case studies of emerging practice
Open Data as Open Educational Resources Case studies of emerging practice is a collection of narratives reflecting good practices in the use of open data in teaching and learning. 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
Moving forward with TESSA: what is the potential for MOOCs?
The Open University developed a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) to support teacher educator professional development. The purpose of this paper is to present the TESSA strategy for 2016-2019 and to draw on data from the TESS-India. In 3rd International Conference of the African Virtual University, 6?8 July 2016. Nairobi, Kenya. more
Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. more
The OER Adoption Pyramid.
This Pyramid was developed in the course of a research paper focusing on why South African academics adopt OER or not. We understood that numerous factors shaped their choices, but it became apparent that some factors were "essential" to OER activity while others were merely "influential". To clarify which factors were required for any type of OER activity, we developed the OER Adoption... more
Seeking impact and visibility: Scholarly communication in Southern Africa.
e two questions driving SCAP?s research were: 1. What is the current state of scholarly communication in (Southern) African universities? 2. How can the use of ICTs, technology platforms and open access publishing models contribute to the improvement of strategic scholarly communication, and what institutional structures are needed to support such an approach? more
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