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This video addresses the topic of creating and/or curating course content and instructional materials to support learning objectives. It highlights the importance of clearly explaining the purpose, source, and alignment of instructional materials. Additionally, the video demonstrates how to communicate course content and instructional materials to your students.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Academics can use the video as a basis to redesign a lesson plan or an entire course module, incorporating the principles that they pick up in the video.

A particularly useful video clip outlining the shift in assessment, from a cognitive approach to a socio-constructive approach.  

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Apart from informing the assessment practices of an individual academic, this video can be used in a workshop environment to train academics on how students can be used in fostering effective assessment for learning.

This resource is a short video clip on how to motivate students to learn and help them build self-confidence.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
Can be used by a facilitator in a training workshop or by an individual academic to get hints on improving students' motivation to learn.

This animation can be used to demonstrate how this sensitive procedure is performed to medical students.
 

Powerpoint presentation by Andrew Moore and Tessa Welch.

Presentation to the University of Fort Hare by Tessa Welch on 7th October 2011.

Presentation by Tessa Welch at the African Council for Distance Education meeting in February 2012.

Peter Donkor, Provost of the College of Health Sciences, explains motivations for open educational resources at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. To watch this video click: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR31aCaj60Q

A new initiative teaching first year health science students about their online identity has proven valuable. The importance of communication skills and respect for others through social media is identified and explained.

The rapid, expansive and evolving use of social media has prompted the need to interrogate its impact for future health professionals. Students in the Health Sciences ought to understand the beneficial and harmful consequences of their online identities and postings.

This workshop was an introductory session for all 1st year students in the Health Sciences Faculty. It aimed to initiate a professional awareness and engage in conversations and tasks related to digital professionalism.

Presentation at the Association of African Universities (AAU) Conference of Rectors, Vice-Chancellors and Presidents of African Universities (COREVIP) is an assembly of the chief executive officers of member institutions or their representatives. The theme of the 2011conference was: Strengthening the Space of Higher Education in Africa.

Open Research has the potential to advance the scientific process by improving the transparency, rigour, scope and reach of research, but choosing to experiment with Open Research carries with it a set of ideological,

legal, technical and operational considerations. Researchers, especially those in resource-constrained situations, may not be aware of the complex interrelations between these different domains of open practice,

the additional resources required, or how Open Research can support traditional research practices. Using the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project as an example, this paper

attempts to demonstrate the interrelation between ideological, legal, technical and operational openness; the resources that conducting Open Research requires; and the benefits of an iterative, strategic approach to

one’s own Open Research practice. In this paper we discuss the value of a critical approach towards Open Research to ensure better coherence between ‘open’ ideology (embodied in strategic intention) and ‘open’

practice (the everyday operationalisation of open principles).

This presentation provides the staged processes and lessons learning in the early stages of course converstion to open educational resources (OER) at the University of Tanzania.

A presentation by Professor Ahmed Bawa to the OER Africa 2016 convening where he discusses the need to re-visit higher education in the sub-content particularly related to funding, curricula, articilation, needs of society, issues of access and success, research capacity and affordability of higher education.

This presentation by Tony Mays to the OER Africa 2016 Convening discusses the business model at Africa Nazarene University in the light of the changing context of educational provision. He highlights new modes of provision, and both the systemic and costing implications.

Catherine Ngugi's opening address to the OER Africa 2016 Convening.

Presentation by Professor Pieter du Toit at the OER Africa 2016 Convening in Nairobi.

This institutional presentation was made at the OER Africa 2016 convening in May in Nairobi.

Presentation by the team from the University of the Free State to OER Africa's 2016 convening.

Key note presentation by Dr David Wiley to the OER Africa 2016 Convening in Nairobi.

Presentation given by Brenda Mallinson in 2015.