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  • From: Paul Stacey <pstacey AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: "ccafrica-oer AT lists.ibiblio.org" <ccafrica-oer AT lists.ibiblio.org>, Greig Krull <greigk AT saide.org.za>, Jacinta Akatsa <jacinta.akatsa AT yahoo.com>
  • Subject: Re: [Ccafrica-oer] Resources to get started with OER
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 08:51:19 -0800

Enjoying seeing what's going on in Africa.
Thought I'd mention a couple of other OER initiatives I'm aware of in Africa:
  • TESSA is a research and development initiative creating open educational resources (OERs) and course design guidance for teachers and teacher educators working in Sub-Saharan African countries.
  • the African Virtual University has a significant OER initiative - see http://oer.avu.org/ for more info.
  • Siyavula based in Cape Town is doing some great stuff too.
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Alex Gakuru <gakuru AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
Greetings,

Last Saturday I was Precious Blood Secondary school attending the launch of the school's refurbished library, courtesy of The Rita and Charles Field-Marsham Foundation partnership. Also demonstrated was their brand new white board see at the bottom of http://kenyalearningsolutions.com/ Mentioned OER during the demo and a teacher noted down my contacts to pursue the conversation further.

Reviewed http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources and https://p2pu.org/en/schools/school-of-open/ and opine that OER emphasises/focusses on university/higher learning institutions, or at least thus far - save for a few links, such as, OER for K-12 Livebinder - http://content.k12opened.com  "OER: New Tools for Elementary Classrooms", published by TCEA - http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/naylor/TEAQ0212/index.php?startid=3#%2F12 (I can get a more "remixable" format.) and School of Ed OER course - https://p2pu.org/en/groups/pd-on-p2pu-oer-in-k-12/   

Question:

Could someone (Catherine?) point me to OERs that speak to some/any African countries education system? That would greatly help inform the next conversation with the school teacher.

with many thanks, 

Alex

DISCLOSURE:

I have special relationship with this brilliant girls secondary school -- Member of the Board of Advisors, AZMA see one of my several personal blog posts at http://codepolitical.blogspot.com/2011/11/wind-beneath-africas-wings.html) I have cc'd the school's Principal on this message.

AG


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Jane Park <janepark AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
Greg,

This is a great list of resources. I've added to http://pad.p2pu.org/p/school-of-open-resources - a list of resources that School of Open course creators can build on to develop courses as part of the School: http://schoolofopen.org/.

Perhaps other resources listed at the pad may be of use to this group as well.

If anyone would like to get involved in the School of Open, don't hesitate to shoot me a note.

Best,
Jane

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 6:21 AM, Greig Krull <greigk AT saide.org.za> wrote:

Hi All

 

As a starting point, let me share some of the great resources we use and some of the (hopefully) great resources we’ve developed to help African educators start navigating around the concept of OER.

 

Creative Commons Video Introduction

·         We usually introduce people to CC with this great video available from the CC website: http://creativecommons.org/videos/creative-commons-kiwi its a great introduction to CC licenses – maybe one day we can have an “African” version rather than relying on a “Kiwi” one ;)

 

Some really useful OER publications from UNESCO / Commonwealth of Learning that you can download and share:

·         A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) (July 2011)

·         Guidelines for Open Educational Resources (OER) in Higher Education (November 2011)

·         Survey on Governments’ Open Educational Resources (OER) Policies (June 2012)

·         Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice (June 2012)

·         Exploring the Business Case for Open Educational Resources (September 2012)

 

OER Africa was a project specifically setup to advocate OER in Africa. The website has a lot of great information. There are sections on:

·         Understanding OER – Introducing OER, FAQs and links to some of the UNSECO/COL publications

·         Finding OER – tools for finding OER as well as links to the OERs collected by OER Africa (in the areas of Health, Agriculture, Teacher Education and Foundations Skills)

·         OER in Action – showcasing African OER initiatives

·         OER Toolkits – OER licensing and policy implications, especially useful for higher education, toolkits on Licensing and Copyright and Policy Development and Review

·         And more…

 

There are stacks of other great resources out there, but hopefully this will be more than enough to get people started…

 

Regards

Greig

 

Greig Krull   |   Education and Information Systems Specialist   |  Saide - South African Institute for Distance Education

Tel: +27 11 403-2813   |   Fax: +27 11 403-2814   |   Cell: +27 83 2448879   |   www.saide.org.za    |     www.oerafrica.org

 


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