OER ACHIEVEMENTS, CHALLENGES, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES
- African Virtual University is creating a comprehensive Open Educational Resources Architecture to ensure the efficient and effective application of the open content movement in African higher education and training institutions and is initiating related capacity-building activities.
- African Virtual University[1] is creating the Teacher Education in Sub-Sahara African project.
- Development Gateway Foundation[2] is developing a topic page on Open Educational Resources (OER) for the web-based portal.
- Fantasy Foundation of Culture and Arts is supporting the Opensource OpenCourseWare Prototype Systems (OOPS)[3] in Taiwan.
- IET Foundation is selecting, translating, adopting, and using OpenCourseWare materials from MIT and other OCW institutions by Chinese Universities. It is also translating original course materials from Chinese Universities for use globally to enhance education, through Chinese Open Resources for Education (CORE).[4]
- Meraka Institute[5] is developing a collection of papers describing use of OER in tertiary education, in primary and secondary schools, and within communities in South Africa.
- United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization International Institute for Educational Planning[6] are creating an international community of practice on Open Educational Resources.
- University of Iowa for WiderNet[7] is delivering and sharing open educational resources in Africa.
- University of Mauritius[8] is holding the ICOOL Conference (International Conference on Open and Online Learning) in South Africa.
- ↑ http://www.open.ac.uk/tessa/
- ↑ http://topics.developmentgateway.org/openeducation
- ↑ http://oops.editme.com
- ↑ http://www.core.org.cn/en/index.htm
- ↑ http://www.meraka.org.za/
- ↑ http://www.unesco.org/iiep/virtualuniversity/forums.php
- ↑ http://www.widernet.org/
- ↑ http://vcampus.uom.ac.mu/vcilt/index.htm
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