Assessing the impact of access to and availability of OER on the emergence and extent of open education practices in sub-Saharan Africa: The case of an ICT-integrated multinational teacher education program in math and science
Qualitative case study that used interviews and document analysis to collect data. The findings indicate varying degrees of open education practices at the AVU network level, at the level of the partner institution and at the level of the educational professional. Presented at OEGlobal 2017, 8?10 March 2017. Cape Town, South Africa more
Uptake of OER by staff in Distance Education in South Africa. The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 16(2), 18?45.
An investigation to gauge the uptake of OER at Unisa, by staff, with the purpose of institutional information gathering for decision making and planning in this area. more
Deconstructing OER and its Potential for African Higher Education.
Outlines the importance of OER in the African context and sets out a 'Theory of Change', for OER which begins by identifying a clear set of specific problems more
Electronic Learning and Open Educational Resources in the Health Sciences in Ghana.
A study to determine whether a group of Ghanaian students are able to easily use electronic learning material and whether they perceive this method of learning as acceptable. Ghana Medical Journal, Vol. 44(4), 159?162. more
Educators and the Cape Town Open Learning Declaration: Rhetorically reducing distance. International Journal of Education and Development Using ICT, 5(5), 117-129.
Rhetorically analyses the Cape Town Open Education Declaration which idealizes the educational process and contrasts this with the practical challenges which affect the development and use of open educational resources. Draws on classical rhetoric and hermeneutics as analytical tools of such visionary documents that contain little factual information. more
Utilising Open Educational Resources (OER) in Support of Curriculum Transformation at Africa Nazarene University
This OER Africa presentation, made at the ALARA 9th Action Learning Research Congress in November 2015, discusses the participatory action research approach that is being used at the Africa Nazarene University (ANU). more
The Roles of Libraries and Information Professionals in Open Educational Resources (OER) Initiatives: Survey Report
The study focuses on the involvement of the Library as an organizational unit, and of individual librarians and other information science specialists, in open educational resources (OER) initiatives. This research study contributes to the current Open Educational Resources (OER) Programme [http://www.jisc.ac.uk/oer] [1], an initiative by JISC and the HEA whose objective is to promote the... more
Growing the Curriculum: Open Education Resources in US Higher Education
This online report from the Babson Survey Research Group is an output on a survey of academic leaders between 2009 - 201 on their knowledge, use and opinion of OER. In addition, surveys were conducted asking faculty in higher education and academic technology administrators their opinions of these resources. Finally, the survey of faculty investigated their use of social media also asked for... more
Harnessing Openness to Improve Research, Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
In this report the Committee for Economic Development examines higher education through the lens of openness. Their goal was to understand the potential impact of greater openness on colleges and universities. Like other service industries such as finance or entertainment, higher education is rooted in information?its creation, analysis, and transmission and the development of the skills... more
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