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Is integration of OERs in distance higher education the panacea to quality higher education in Africa? Perceptions of higher education leaders and managers
(AVU, 2018-02-10)Distance education is confronted by many challenges among which are issues of expanding access, reducing cost and improving quality of teaching and learning at a time when growth in higher education is generally increasing. ... -
The importance of students’ awareness and usage of AVU Open Courseware
(AVU, 2018-02-12)For a number of African institutions, it is difficult and expensive to afford the requirements of study materials for their students. The Open Educational Resources (OER) movement partly seeks to address this need and ... -
Less of a choice but a necessity: A Case for OER Institutional and National Policies
(2018-02-25)In a context where textbooks and printed teaching and learning materials are still scarce and cost a fortune when they are available due to the fact that they are procured using hard currencies such as the dollar and the ... -
Strategies to increase the uptake of OERs in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2018-02-26)Institutions of higher learning in Africa have been spending considerable amounts of resources to procure, install and maintain various information and communication technology (ICT) equipment and systems to complement ... -
No Math Textbooks? Try Online Open Math Resources (OOMR) and Create a Community of Practice (CoP)
(2018-02-26)With very few exceptions, African countries are confronted with an acute shortage of textbooks in all subjects and at all levels of the education system. There are even countries where no textbooks exist in one or many ... -
Make what is hers mine: Cultural Appropriation and contextualization of OERs
(2018-02-28)It is well recognized that African educational institutions are facing enormous pressure to increase access to education and training. The cost of accommodating an increasing number of students in educational institutions ... -
Mainstreaming of OER around the SDG4: The Ljubljana OER Action Plan 2017
(AVU, 2018-04-07)The theme of the 2nd World OER Congress – “OER for Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education: from Commitment to Action” – reflects the pivotal role OER can play toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, ... -
Can OER availability lead to open education practices?
(AVU, 2018-04-12)A driving concern for OER stakeholders is that there is a gap between the concept of giving away knowledge for free and the actual use of free and open resources for teaching and learning. Studies (Ehlers 2011; Camilleri, ... -
Is old technology out? Challenges in developing open educational videos?
(AVU, 2018-04-22)The use of video materials in distance education dates back to a long time when instruction in the correspondence education generation was dispensed through black and white television programs. Developments in Information ... -
Publishing Content in the Cloud: opportunities and challenges
(AVU, 2018-04-22)When distance education went online, content developers installed authoring tools on their desktop. A content authoring tool refers to a software package which can be used to create and offer learning content to users. ... -
Storytelling: A pedagogical strategy for repurposing OER
(AVU, 2018-04-22)Issue at-hand In the past ten years or more, open provision of course materials has seen significant growth with the Open Education Resources (OER) movement and now Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). There are over 3000 ...
