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  • Guide to Blended Learning

    The Guide to Blended Learning is an introduction using technology and distance education teaching strategies with traditional, face-to-face classroom activities. This Guide has been designed to assist teachers adopt blended learning strategies through a step-by-step approach taking constructivist and design-based approach and reflecting on decisions taken to provide authentic learning... more

  • Regional OER Guidelines: Botswana

    The purpose of these Guidelines are to provide direction in the use of Open Educational Resources, to increase access to and support quality teaching and learning among students and teachers in the different Regions of the school education system in Botswana. The Guidelines outline key issues and make suggestions for integrating OER into teaching and learning across the education system. more

  • Developing Regional OER Guidelines in Cameroon: Consultant's Report

    The work involved preparing draft OER guidelines catering to regional requirements; building awareness among key stakeholders on the concept and impact of OER; advocating the necessity and benefits of a regional OER policy for Education; initiating the process of drafting OER guidelines in ten regions and working with champions towards a final draft guideline. more

  • Towards an Open Educational Resources Strategy for the Republic of Zambia

    This report provides context and purpose for the adoption of OER in the country and initiates a draft OER strategy for the Republic of Zambia. The introductory section presents the current education system in Zambia with reference to structure, access, equity and quality and identifies national-level education agencies. In support of OER integration, the second section explores the status of... more

  • Open Educational Resources Policy for Higher Education in Nigeria

    This report makes a case for open educational resources (OER) in Nigeria and presents a draft OER policy for higher education in Nigeria. In its simplest form, OER are any “educational resources (including curriculum maps, course materials, textbooks, streaming videos, multimedia applications, podcast, and any other materials that have been designed for use in teaching and learning) that are... more

  • Open Courseware, Open Content, Open Practices, Open Learning: Where are the Limits?

    The first part of the paper reports on the outcomes of a joint UNESCO-COL project Taking OERs beyond the OER Community: Policy and Capacity. Its purpose was to expand understanding of the potential of OERs among university leaders and quality assurance officials in Africa and Asia, who have low awareness of this phenomenon. The project concluded with an intergovernmental policy forum where... more

  • Introducing Copyright: A Plain Language Guide to Copyright in the 21st Century

    To present copyright as simply as possible this book breaks the topic into 12 chapters. The first chapter explains how modern copyright began and why countries agreed on international copyright protection. Chapter Two describes the international agreements that apply to copyright and the organisations that administer them. Chapters 3-7 look at how countries have implemented international... more

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