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OERs and open licensing: Why it matters to open universities

Neil Butcher was invited to present at Botswana Open University’s Open Access Week in October, 2021. In this presentation, OERs and open licensing: Why it matters to open universities?, Neil explores what is needed for us to join the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).

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Publication: Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy

NBA is proud to have worked with the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and the Commonwealth of Learning to develop the newly published Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy. The Guidelines are intended to support literacy providers around the world in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating their open and distance learning-based (ODL) literacy programmes.

Interactive report provides progress on research into CPD models for Higher Education

Are academics at your institution struggling to find the time and space to invest in their own continuing professional development (CPD)? With so many competing priorities, many academics find it difficult squeeze CPD in among their other daily responsibilities.

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Publication: South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Bulletin

The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has far-reaching implications for education and training. Neil Butcher and Sonja Loots were privileged to contribute to the South African Qualifications Authority’s recently published Bulletin, which includes 15 papers that focus on empirical and conceptual aspects of the 4IR from several sectors within the context of education and training.

AfLIA and NBA discussion at the mEducation Alliance Symposium

Dr Nkem Osuigwe and Kirsty von Gogh discussed their upcoming early literacy development course at the mEducation Alliance Symposium on 30 September, 2021. They were joined by country champions to discuss the realities of libraries in Africa.

Conference: The Creative Commons Global Summit: 20-24 September 2021

The Creative Commons Global Summit took place from 20 to 24 September 2021. On 22 September, Mohini Baijnath and Neil Butcher had the pleasure of representing OER Africa at the conference, where they presented the initiative's ongoing work on African OER initiatives in higher education.

Webinar: Early literacy development in African Libraries – Survey Findings

Join us on the 2021 International Literacy Day, 8th September 2021 at 10:30 (GMT) to discuss the findings from a survey we recently conducted find out what infrastructure and early literacy practices exist in African libraries.

African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA) and NBA ran a survey as a baseline study for an Early Literacy Development course for African Librarians. The survey was driven by country champions who ensured that public and community libraries in 18 countries participated.

Call for African graduates/emerging African researchers to join NBA’s research team

NBA is recruiting African graduates, preferably alumni of Mastercard Foundation programs, to join our research team responsible for evaluating the Baobab platform.

We are looking to recruit:

ADEA 2021 High-Level Policy Dialogue Forum

NBA will be presenting key findings from our forthcoming TVET EdTech report at the ADEA Policy Dialogue Forum on “Rethinking the role of Skills Development in future work and lifelong learning, in light of digitalization & 4th Industrial Revolution”. Join us on 8 July for the presentation, titled Quality – Unleashing the power of educational technology (EdTech) in TVSD.

Webinar: OER in EdTech

Neil Butcher participated in a panel dissecting the future of open educational resources in Africa. Africa is fast embracing EdTech. More companies are joining the race to become the number one provider of online education. Does open licensing of study materials offer greater returns to companies and their students, or is it an obstacle?