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A Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education

This Guide aims to help individuals and institutions that are adopting post-traditional approaches by outlining key issues to consider when assuring the quality of their offerings.

Harnessing OER to Drive Systemic Educational Change in Secondary Schooling

This paper reports on two action research projects which explored the challenge of determining the conditions under which use of OER can drive a transformative educational agenda in schooling systems.

Harnessing OER to Develop Teachers: The Guyana Experience

This paper describes the process used to redesign the teacher training curriculum in Guyana to achieve the goals of a newly-developed ICT Professional Development Strategy.

A Basic Guide to Open Educational Resources

This Guide comprises three sections. The first – a summary of the key issues – is presented in the form of a set of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’. The second section is a more comprehensive analysis of these issues, presented in the form of a traditional research paper. The third section is a set of appendices, containing more detailed information about specific areas of relevance to OER.

Understanding Open Educational Resources

We will explore OER in general to give you an understanding of what they are and who the key players are in the progress of OER. By the end of the lesson, you should be able to make an informed decision about the worth of OER and how they might add value to your work as an educator or materials developer.

Open Practices in Higher Education: Trends and Possibilities for Africa

The report provides an outline of recommendations on how African universities can reinvent themselves through making certain changes that will enable them to be more relevant and responsive to 21st century skills demands and ultimately to serve their communities more effectively and efficiently.

The South African National Qualifications Framework and the Fourth Industrial Revolution

For the first time in the history of the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) Bulletins, the writing of papers and the production phases of the Bulletin materialised within the context of a global pandemic. The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) has become a topical area of discussion and engagement across various sectors, including education and training, and developments have gained momentum under Covid-19.

Guide to Developing Open Textbooks

This manual provides a number of different technological solutions for the effective location and use of existing OER to develop an open textbook platform.

UNESCO ICT-CFT & OER

How do we get teachers to integrate ICT effectively into teaching and learning, and into their other administrative duties? This presentation explores how to use the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (CFT) and the OER Commons repository of aligned OER to build teacher professional development courses.