OER Africa

This is a keynote address made by Catherine Ngugi at the Open Education Conference: Crossing the Chasm held at the Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from the 12 - 14 August 2009.

The review was to be based on a study of relevant documents, interviews with academic staff involved in institutional policy making and OER production

The Key Note covers a brief history of higher education in Africa; the impact of funding on the purpose of education; the debates about the purpose of higher education within the global knowledge economy; and the possible role within all of this of OER Afr

Higher Education Institutions in Africa increasingly find themselves trapped in an ineluctable impasse: To remain relevant they must satisfy the diverse and often contradictory demands of various stakeholders while doing so with severe limitations to t

A keynote address by C Ngugi at the Open Learning Conference 2009 in Nottingham, UK, November 2009. The focus of this address was that OER presents an opportunity to overhaul how we think about & practice higher education

This article highlights that security and privacy are not IT issues, and they demand a comprehensive, strategic, team approach to find effective solutions

This presentation provides an overview of OERAfrica, their aims and understanding of the role of OERs in Africa, with particular reference to higher education on the content. Additional author:Butcher, Neil

African higher education institutions seriously structurally under-funded for the core function they are expected to discharge. Therefore, corresponding paucity of institutional and individual capacity to teach in many domains of higher education. Too few