Since mid-2019, building on the research from Grant 5, OER Africa has been developing the professional competences and skills of stakeholders within African higher education institutions so that they can implement OER practices to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
During Grant 6, we created an evidence-based CPD framework comprising a set of inter-related Open Education Tutorials on effective OER practices. These seek to systematically develop African academics’ competence while providing immediate access to relevant and useful skills and knowledge that will make their teaching and learning easier to implement and more effective.
Building on the knowledge gained through the pilot implementation of the Open Education Tutorials and emerging partnerships with the Association of African Universities (AAU) and the African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), OER Africa is focusing on four key outcomes for Grant Seven. This includes developing CPD frameworks for personnel in higher education institutions, establishing an online collection of CPD OER in higher education, launching a CPD network, and working with a group of African higher education institutions to create supportive environments for effective CPD implementation.