Textbook

This is a high-level introduction to course design. It covers learner-centric design, constructive alignment, Universal Instructional Design, and the development of instructional materials. The author has centred her discussion on basic instructional design around an argument for developing learner-centred courses. It is a good overview of some of the key considerations an academic should be thinking about as they develop their courses.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
This Pressbooks chapter can be used as introductory reading. There are multiple points that could lead to a deep discussion on various aspects of instructional design.

While this book focuses only on open textbooks (and not other types of materials), the information provided is in-depth and well structured. Academics and CPD co-ordinators can use Part 4 to inform their process of creating and editing content. They can refer to the summary page in each section, which consolidates key points, including underlying principles, who is involved, and key tactics.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The book is far too comprehensive for any one CPD activity. However, the scope is wide, and the chapters could be broken up as specific focus areas about creating textbooks.

This starter kit has been created to provide instructors with an introduction to the use and creation of open educational resources (OER). The text is organized into five sections: Getting Started, Copyright, Finding OER, Teaching with OER, and Creating OER. Although some chapters contain more advanced content, the starter kit is primarily intended for users who are entirely new to open education.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
This starter kit can be used as a workshop text or as a reference when working with OER.

The Flexible Learning for Open Education (FLOE) Inclusive Learning Design Handbook is a free OER designed to assist in creating adaptable and customizable educational resources that can accommodate a diversity of learning preferences and individual needs. This handbook on inclusive design is structured according to 'perspectives' (philosophical), 'approaches' (advice for creating inclusive environments) and 'techniques' (advice about the actual tools that can be used to craft inclusive materials.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
This handbook can be used in multiple ways for those wanting to use it in a CPD initiative. It ranges from high level discussions on inclusive principles to advice on how to implement inclusivity in the classroom. This resource will need to be adapted to suit your needs as its scope is broad. Make sure you know what you want to achieve during your CPD initiative and select content appropriately. It is not meant to be a course, however, and will need to be reorganized if used as a workshop.

This practical guide or textbook provides a framework and tips to enhance inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility in OER. It looks at how to ensure that what one is developing is sensitive to the IDEA principles. The focus is on OER but the principles are universal.

Ideas for CPD Interventions
The textbook would be a great resource for a CPD initiative on inclusion, diversity, equity and/or accessibility; either as a course text or as background reading. Many lecturers would benefit from the guidance it gives when thinking about decolonization of the course content and how we should treat marginalized students.

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.