Privacy, Confidentiality, and Security
This module aims to educate the student about the importance of privacy, confidentiality and the security of the patients imformation. It defines the concepts and discusses the best approaches to go about achieving true Privacy and security. more
Information Retrieval: Access to Knowledge-Based Resources
This forms part of the Fundamental Skills under Health Informatics Building Blocks (HIBB). It is the first unit aimed at training and developing more informed health practitioners. more
Your Global Positioning System
YGPS stands for *Your Global Positioning System*. The aim of this programme is to help you to develop the skills to position yourself by understanding who you are and what you can contribute to your family, community, society and the world in the 21st century. more
Mathematical Literacy
This module is designed to help the student understand basic mathematical concept like Fractions, Decimals and Rounding Off. more
Ten Facts About Open Educational Resources (OERs)
Useful summary with links to other OER resources. more
An Enabling Strategy For Free and Open Educational Resources at the University of the Witwatersrand
This strategy attempts to create an enabling environment for Wits academics, students and other staff to participate in the use, adaptation, creation, and sharing of educational and research resources as free and open educational resources (FOER). This new approach to old academic traditions is a global trend, led by some of the top institutions in the world, and as a world class, research-... more
Professional Development in a Digital Age: Exploring Aspects of Digital Fluency for Blended Teaching and Learning
A keynote workshop on OER Africa's digital fluency course developed at the Open University of Tanzania, presented at the First Annual Teaching and Learning Conference of the North West University in South Africa, by Brenda Mallinson. more
A Collaborative Approach to OER Policy and Guidelines Development in the Commonwealth: The Case of Botswana, Cameroon, and Sri Lanka
Access to relevant learning resources is an important aspect in ensuring inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for all as outlined in the sustainable development goal 4 (SDG4). The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has identified the development of open educational resources (OER) as a potential answer to these challenges. A total of 29 provincial/... more
Strengthening Critical Value Chains with Agshare Open Knowledge Agshare II Convening 2015Strengthening Critical Value Chains with Agshare Open Knowledge Agshare II Convening 2015
The purpose of the AgSgare convening was to provide an opportunity for project teams: * Makerere College of Communication and Information Science (CoCIS) – Indigenous Agricultural Knowledge * Makerere College of Veterinary Medicine, Animal Resources and Biosecurity (COVAB) – Dairy Hygiene * Haramaya Department of Agricultural Information and Communication Management (AICM)-... more
Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice
This book is evidence of the solid progress being made in response to the challenges flagged at the 2009 UNESCO conferences discussing the potential of OER. Activity in developing countries accounts for the majority of the work reported here, and the experience of using and repurposing OER receives as much coverage as their initial development. Other papers describe how OER can be fitted... more
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