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Nairobi – 8th May 2012

The following module has been highlighted: Educational Research module authored by Ridwan Mohamed Osman.

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/80

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 12th April 2012

The following module has been highlighted: Numerical Methods module authored by Dr. Ralph W.P. Masenge

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/19

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 21st March 2012

The following module has been highlighted: Mechanics prepared by Tendayi Chihaka

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/55

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 1st March 2012

The following module has been highlighted: Inorganic Chemistry 1 module authored by Dr. Chrispin Kowenje.

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/41

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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OpenCourseWare Consortium Declares First Annual Open Education Week for March 5-10, 2012

Efforts to Expand Access to Education and Knowledge to be Featured in Global Events

 

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., – (February 21, 2012)

 

The OpenCourseWare Consortium announces today the first annual Open Education Week from March 5-10, 2012. Open Education Week is a global event that seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse.

 

"The vision of the open education movement is to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere, is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire. The movement encompasses producing, sharing, using and modifying content, as well as innovative models of educational delivery," said Mary Lou Forward, executive director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. "Open Education Week will showcase projects, resources, people and ideas so that people around the world can see the breadth of what has been accomplished already, and participate in discussions about the future of the movement."

 

Open Education Week is being coordinated by the OpenCourseWare Consortium. The event will take place online and in different locations around the world, with opportunities to participate in webinars, discussions and live events. Projects and events will be featured from institutions and organizations from around the world, including: University of Cape Town, University of Michigan, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, University of California, Irvine, Delft University of Technology, and Creative Commons.

 

About The OpencCourseWare Consortium

 

The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCWC) is a community of more than 250 universities and associated organizations worldwide. The mission of the OCWC and its member institutions is to advance formal and informal learning for educators and self-learners around the world through the sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials packaged as courses readily accessible on a digital platform. The Consortium showcases its members to a global audience and provides information and training through webinars, newsletters, and free and open materials. For more information, visit http://www.ocwconsortium.org

 

 

Open Education Week 5-10 March 2012 - Call for participation

Nairobi – 26 January 2012

Join your colleagues around the world to increase understanding about open education! Open Education Week will take place from 5-10 March 2012 online www.openeducationweek.org and in locally hosted events around the world. The objective is to raise awareness of the open education movement and open educational resources. There are several ways you and your organization can be involved:

 

1. Provide a pre-recorded informational virtual tour of your project, work, or organization. This should be focused on the work you're doing in open education, designed for a general audience. These can be done in any language.

 

2. Offer a webinar. Webinars are well suited for topics of general interest, such as what's happening in open education in a particular area or country, or topics that offer discussion possibilities. Webinars can be scheduled in any language, 24 hours a day. We would also like to feature question and answer sessions in a variety of languages and time zones.

 

3. Pre-record a presentation on open education concepts. Do you have an inspiring presentation about open education? Can you discuss the issues that open education seeks to address in your country, region or globally? We plan to feature short, introductory overviews of open education and OER for different audiences, such as those new to the idea, policy makers, faculty, etc. Presentations in any language are welcome.

 

4. Create or share text-based, downloadable information. This should be information on the open education movement, in any language, appropriate to introduce the movement and its important concepts to a variety of audiences. Specific information on your project can be linked to from the openeducationweek.org website.

 

5. Sponsor or host a local event during the week of 5-10 March. This could be a community discussions, a forum on open education, a challenge and/or a celebration. We invite you to get creative with planning events. Suggestions and support will be available on the open education week web site, and the planning group is happy to work with you to create bigger impact.

 

The OCW Consortium is coordinating this community run event. There is no cost to participate. Follow us on twitter at #openeducationwk and facebook at facebook.com/openeducationwk

 

Please fill out the Open Education Week contributor's form by January 27, 2012: tinyurl.com/openeducationwkpax

 

You may also contact us at openeducationwk@gmail.com

 

 

 

A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 21st February 2012

Diversity of Algae and Plants module authored by Dr. Memory Tekere, Biological Sciences Dept, University of Zimbabwe

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/33

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 2nd February 2012

Solid State Physics module authored by Dr. Obwoya Kinyera Sam

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/28

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 26 January 2012

The following module has been highlighted: ICT Integration in Biology module authored by Salomon Tchameni Ngamo and Mamdou Sarr.

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/66

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 13 January 2012

The following module has been highlighted: Multimedia Design and Applications module authored by Mr. George L. Ekol, Kyambogo University, Kampala, Uganda

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/85

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 15th December 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Educational Management module authored by Prof. Gerald Ngugi Kimani, University of Nairobi

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/79

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 06th December 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Mathematics 1, Basic Mathematics module authored by Prof. Jairus. Khalagai, University of Nairobi

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/18

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 23rd November 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Organic Chemistry 1 module authored by Dr. George L. Mhehe and Mahamud Mohamed Korane

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/45

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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First Annual Open Education Week Declared for 5-10 March 2012

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., (October 25, 2011)

Efforts to expand access to education and knowledge to be featured in global events

 

5-10 March 2012 has been declared the first annual Open Education Week. A global event, Open Education Week seeks to raise awareness about the benefits of free and open sharing in education, especially Open Educational Resources (OER). OER are high-quality, free and open educational materials that offer opportunities for people anywhere in the world to share, use and reuse knowledge.

 

"The vision of the OER movement is to improve teaching and learning globally through free and open sharing. OER give people access to the educational content they desire, independent of time or location. The movement encompasses producing, sharing, using and modifying content, as well as innovative models of educational delivery," said Mary Lou Forward, Executive Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium. "Open Education Week is going to showcase projects, resources, people and ideas so more people around the world can see its potential and its benefits."

 

Open Education Week is being planned by representatives of Open Education institutions and organizations from around the world and coordinated by the OpenCourseWare Consortium. Global events will feature projects and resources as well as more general information about the OER movement. Live webinars will be scheduled in different time zones and languages throughout the week. Information and pre-recorded presentations also will be available on the website, along with a virtual tour of a variety of open educational projects and available OER. All virtual and live events are free and open to the public. For more information visit www.openeducationweek.org

 

ABOUT THE OPENCOURSEWARE CONSORTIUM:

 

The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a community of more than 250 universities and associated organizations worldwide committed to advancing opencourseware sharing and its impact on global educational opportunity. The mission of the OpenCourseWare Consortium is to advance formal and informal learning for educators and self-learners around the world through the sharing and use of free, open, high-quality education materials packaged as courses readily accessible on a digital platform. The Consortium showcases its members to a global audience and provides information and training through webinars, newsletters, and free and open opencourseware materials. For more information, visit www.ocwconsortium.org

 

 

A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 07th November 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Animal Diversity module authored by Laurence Joséphine Rabotovao, Université d'Antananarivo

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/51

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi – 31st October 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Electronics module authored by Sam Kinyera Obwoya, Kyambogo University Uganda.

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/25

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 17th October 2011

The following module has been highlighted: ICT Basic Skills: Text Based Productivity Tools module authored by Dr. Elijah I. Omwenga

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/83

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 8th September 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Professional Courses: Educational Communication module authored by George L. Ekol

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/76

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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African Virtual University OER Voted 'Best Emerging Initiative' by the Global Community

NAIROBI, 22 August, 2011

The African Virtual University (AVU) continues to gain international recognition for increasing accessibility to quality education for thousands of Africans. In the first OpenCourseWare (OCW) People's Choice Awards over 4,000 people voted and awarded AVU Open Educational Resources (OER) the top prize for Best Emerging Initiative. The Awards were organized by the US based Education-Portal.com

 

The AVU interactive portal OER@AVU http://oer.avu.org is being accessed beyond Africa in 142 countries with a majority from Brazil and the United States. The site, launched in January, 2011, is designed to host free content developed in partnership with 10 African countries and tailored to the African students' needs.

 

"From an education perspective, this award shows that Africa is moving from a development model that pulls resources from the international community to one that pushes out relevant and interesting content that is contributing to the international dialogue on education," commented Dr. Bakary Diallo, AVU's Head.

 

AVU's OER is supported by the African Development Bank and hosts 219 open educational modules divided into several topics - textbooks in math and science, teacher education, basic ICT (information and communication technology) skills and four in ICT classroom integration – all of which are freely available in English, French and Portuguese.

 

AVU has come a long way from its early beginnings as a Washington-based initiative. Created in 1997 to increase African students' access to quality education through the use of ICT, AVU moved its base to Kenya and became a Pan Africa intergovernmental organization in 2003. Since then, the organization has overcome many challenges and set a searing pace for itself.

 

AVU has graduated more than 40,000 students across Africa and established the largest distance and eLearning network in over 27 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The institution's greatest asset is its ability to work in all political landscapes and across borders and languages in Anglophone, Francophone and Lusophone Africa. AVU's program in war-torn Somalia provides proof that its model is working. Over the past several years, AVU has graduated 4,000 students with women comprising a staggering 30% of graduates.

 

The Open Education Movement is a grassroots initiative based on the belief that knowledge should be free and open to use and re-use and that it should be interactive using text, images, audio, video, interactive simulations and games. The movement started 10 years ago with the MIT OCW project and now has a global reach. It is supported by institutions such as the OCW Consortium, UNESCO, the Creative Commons and donors.

 

Other People's Choice Awards winners included MIT Physics in the category of Best OER (Non-Video), the College Open Textbook in the category of Most Open, and the Middle Eastern Technical University for Best Video Lectures.

 

Complete list of winners and finalists

 

 

A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 23rd August 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Number Theory module authored by Mr. Paul Chege

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/7

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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OER@AVU Nominated for the OCW People's Choice Award as "Best Emerging Initiative"

18th July 2011

The African Virtual University's (AVU) Open Educational Resources (OER) portal http://oer.avu.org/ has been nominated for the Education-Portal.com's OCW People's Choice Award http://eduport.al/qR3Kbt

 

Nominations were made by Education-Portal.com's readers and other members of the OCW community. The AVU has been nominated in the "Best Emerging Initiative" category. Education-Portal.com is a US based company; the nominees are among the best OCW/OER organizations in the world.

 

The OER@AVU Portal was launched in January 2011 and hosts more than 200 textbooks of Mathematics, Sciences and Teacher Education as well as 91 videos. As at June 2011, the AVU OER resources were viewed or downloaded 200,000 times in 142 countries worldwide, including 41 African countries.

 

The AVU is humbled by this nomination and would like to thank its partners and supporters, especially the African Development Bankhttp://www.afdb.org/en/which is the main sponsor of the AVU OER@AVU portal.

 

Supporting AVU's nomination by Voting

You can support the AVU nomination by voting and by asking your friends and network to vote for the AVU. Voting is open to all until August 15 2011.

 

To vote, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VC9CG5K , under "Best Emerging Initiative" select the "African Virtual University OER", and then click on the "Done" button at the bottom of the page.

 

About The OER@AVU Portal

The African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org launched an interactive Open Educational Resources (OER) portal OER@AVU in January 2011. The portal is available at http://oer.avu.org/ and contains quality resources developed collaboratively with 12 universities in 10 African countries. The resources are released as Open Educational Resources under the Creative Commons open licence. Through the portal, the AVU is enabling academics all around the African continent and beyond to share, distribute and disseminate their resources globally and contribute towards Africa's economic development through education.

 

The resources are free to use and institutions and individuals can access the materials, use, modify and put them back to enrich the portal. They can also contribute their own resources. This initiative has been funded by the African Development Bank.

 

Thank you

 

 

A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 10th August 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Chemistry 1: Introductory Chemistry 1 module authored by Dahir Mohamed Yusuf

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/42

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 29th July 2011

The following module has been highlighted: Evolution Biology module authored by Professor Jassiel N. Zulu

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/35

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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Invitation to Join Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL) Register

07th July 2011

Dear friends and colleagues,

 

on behalf of the Open Educational Quality Initiative (OPAL), UNESCO and the European Foundation for Quality in E-Learning (EFQUEL) would like to invite your organization join the OPAL Register.

 

The OPAL Initiative aims to improve the quality of higher education and adult education by highlighting innovative practices in the use of open educational resources (OER), or open educational practices (OEP) to transform education and training.

 

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OCW Consortium Partners with Leading Community College Consortium, CCCOER, to Expand Access to Open Education

20th June 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW Consortium) has partnered with the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) to maximize and expand the impact of opencourseware to community college students, faculty and learners worldwide. CCCOER represents an important voice in higher education, having over 200 affiliated community colleges that are interested in the benefits of open sharing. Nearly 50 percent of all higher education students in the United States are enrolled in community colleges. The shared resources of CCCOER, combined with the OCW Consortium's more than 250 universities and associated organizations worldwide, and its collective free online educational materials, provide access to high-quality educational and job-training materials that many users tap into on a local level.

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 20th June 2011

The following module has been highlighted: ICT Integration in Education module authored by Salomon Tchameni Ngamo and Chris Olley

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/65

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 10th June 2011

TThe following module has been highlighted: Introduction to ICT module authored by Dr. Gilford T Hapanyengwi Director of ICT Department, University of Zimbabwe

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/82

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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AVU at the UNESCO OER Chairs Network Meeting

9th June 2011

The African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org will be attending the UNESCO OER Chairs Network Meeting http://oer.unescochair-ou.nl in New York on 18-19 June.

 

The AVU will be represented by its Rector, Dr. Bakary Diallo, who will also make a presentation on "The AVU and OER" on Saturday 18th June, 2011.

 

UNESCO Chair takes a leadership role in networking, teaching and research related to OER, maintaining the OER Community and linking with other OER initiatives to create an international OER Network

 

This Chair focuses on three specific areas: networking, capacity building and research.

 

In the long term, the principal objective of this Chair is to contribute to international development by promoting the development and use of OER through the adaptation/localization of materials for use in both formal and informal learning contexts. This objective supports the UNESCO Millennial Development Goals.

 

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eLA Debate: Does the OER movement really hold the key to improving learning?

8th June 2011

The eLearning Africa Debate 2011 – it certainly was not the typical end to a conference! The debate reflected the nature of the eLearning Africa community: a passionate, informed discussion from a community that is diverse in perspective but united in its commitment to use technology to improve education. This year, the eLA Debate wrestled with the issue of the Open Educational Resources movement and its role in education in Africa.

 

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Free course materials have reached 100 million

6th June 2011

MIT announced that its free OpenCourseWare has reached 100 million people in the first 10 years of the project. The group says its new goal is to reach one billion people over the next decade. "We aspire by 2021 to make open educational resources like MIT OpenCourseWare the tools to bridge the global gap between human potential and opportunity, so that motivated people everywhere can improve their lives and change the world," they wrote in a press release. The plan includes making OCW available through mobile phones, making it more culturally-appropriate for different groups and "creating an [online] ecosystem" that will allow users to learn more from each other. Although MIT's initiative is the largest of its kind, other top-ranked schools like UC Berkeley and Yale University also offer OCW. Capilano University in Vancouver gives away materials for 10 subjects from art history to computer science

 

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OCW Consortium Appoints Anka Mulder President

26 May 2011

The OpenCourseWare Consortium(OCW Consortium) Board of Directors has elected Anka Mulder as its new President. The announcement was made at the Consortium's global conference, which included representatives from the more than 250 universities and associated organizations worldwide committed to advancing opencourseware (OCW). Mulder currently serves as the director of education at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She succeeds Stephen Carson of MIT, who held the position for three years. The Consortium also announced the results of elections for its Board of Directors. With representatives from more than ten countries participating on the board, the Consortium is confident that a global voice is well represented.

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 12 May 2011

Contemporary Issues in Education module authored by Mr. Ssemanda Enosi from Foundations of Education Department (FED), Kyambogo University in Uganda

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/152

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

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A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 04th May 2011

The following module has been highlighted in the OER@AVU Portal: Copyright for Librarians, developed by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University in conjunction with Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL).

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/263

 

Copyright for Librarians is a joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL), a consortium of libraries from 50 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe. The goal of the project is to provide librarians in developing and transitional countries information concerning copyright law. More specifically, it aspires to inform librarians concerning:

 

- copyright law in general;

- the aspects of copyright law that most affect libraries;

- how librarians in the future could most effectively participate in the processes by which copyright law is interpreted and shaped.

 

This is a milestone for OER@AVU as this is the first externally developed module hosted on the portal. This is in line with the AVU OER strategy to 'Facilitate increased participation in the creation, organization, dissemination and utilization of OERs'.

 

 

OER@AVU Site Unavailable Between April 21st and April 24th

Nairobi - 25th April 2011

Due to a service outage with our host Amazon Elastic Computing Cloud Service, you may have experienced high latencies/site unavailability on the OER@AVU portal http://oer.avu.org between approximately 0140hrs PDT on 21st April and 0740hrs on the 24th of April.

 

The AVU has been closely monitoring the site and we are happy to report that the service has now been fully restored.

 

We remain committed to availing quality Open Educational Resources on our platform and regret any inconvenience experienced.

 

Regards,

The African Virtual University

 

 

A new highlighted module has been posted on OER@AVU

Nairobi - 21st April '11

The following module has been highlighted: Geometry module authored by Marcos Cherinda, Universidade Pedagogica Mozambique

 

View highlighted module: http://oer.avu.org/handle/123456789/54

 

This module is one of the 219 AVU commissioned resources posted on OER@AVU. The AVU commissioned resources were developed in partnership with the African Development Bank and 10 African countries

 

Keep visiting OER@AVU to view new highlighted modules that shall be posted regularly.