Deploying OER to meet Higher Education needs in Africa, (23rd ICDE World Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education) June 2009

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 learning resources for learners and lecturers in African universities, and many of those available are too expensive to be purchased by universities or students.