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Read more about Strengthening CPD through Collaboration: The OER Africa Continuing Professional Development Network

In early 2025, OER Africa launched the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Network, an initiative designed to connect higher education institutions across southern Africa in a shared effort to strengthen professional development for academic staff. Since its inception, the Network has convened seven times, bringing together representatives from five institutions.

Read more about Open Education Week 2025: An African Marriage of OER and AI

With the focus on open education and open technologies during Open Education Week, which runs from 3 to 7 March 2025, let’s explore some ways in which open content is being harnessed by Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to deliver quality education to some of Africa’s youth.

Read more about Driving Student Engagement Using Open Educational Resources

In a world filled with competing distractions, apps, and social media, students' attention is constantly being pulled in different directions. The adaptability and flexibility of Open Educational Resources allow educators to create engaging lessons. Encouraging students to use and modify these resources can enhance their knowledge retention and encourage social interactions among the peers.

Read more about Celebrating Teachers: OER for Teaching and Learning

The 5th of October is International Teachers’ Day! Part of why the world nominates one day a year to pat teachers on the back is because parents and students DO appreciate those educators who find ways to keep students excited about learning.

We have taken you through the steps on creating a new derivative from an existing OER as well as creating and licensing new OER. The final step in this fourth tutorial is on how to share the resource with your educational colleagues across the continent, and potentially, globally. We will look at where to 'publish' your resource and what repositories and portals to add it to thus ensuring that others can search, and and download your OER for new uses.

In this third tutorial (of four) we will investigate how to adapt existing OER to better suit your teaching context and how to develop your own resources and license them with a Creative Commons licence.

What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? What are the bene ts of using OER? How do you know what you can do, and should not do, when you have found a great OER? This tutorial will answer those questions. We will de ne Open Educational Resources and also help you decipher the Creative Commons licences.

RTT Programme Module 2b training agenda

The spread of the COVID-19 virus and subsequent closure of many universities has severely disrupted academic progress across the globe. To assist lecturers with the implementation of emergency remote teaching (ERT), the Association of African Universities (AAU) and OER Africa is presenting a series of four webinars on ERT strategies. This presentation covers content for Webinar 4.