SARUA Handbook 2009: A Guide to Public Universities of Southern Africa
NBA team members compiled statistical information for this report, which provides information regarding all state-funded public universities in Southern Africa.
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Open Licensing Made Plain: A primer on children’s book creation in the global South (2nd edition)
In 2018 we published an open licensing primer for early literacy publishers on open licensing, with a brief section for authors and illustrators.1 So much has changed since then that we decided to take a fresh look at the issues and challenges, this time giving full attention to content creators, such as publishers, authors, illustrators, and teacher, all of whom have a stake in producing high quality and cost effective materials for education.
A Guide to Quality in Online Learning
This guide summarizes the key quality issues in online education in a concise and accessible manner, with an annotated reading list to help you to pursue particular topics further. Academics and professionals in higher education are our primary audience. We consider academics and students as the key stakeholders for online education, and have written the guide with this principle in mind.1 It is structured in the form of 16 ‘Frequently Asked Questions’, followed by an additional reading list focused on quality benchmarks and international best practices.
Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy
The UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) and the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) have published Guidelines on open and distance learning for youth and adult literacy to support literacy providers around the world in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating their open and distance learning-based (ODL) literacy programmes.
OER Policy Clinic for Foundational Literacy and Numeracy
An online clinic on open educational resources (OER) and national policy on 27 September, 2021, was facilitated by Neil Butcher & Associates, in partnership with the EdTech Hub, UNESCO, the mEducation Alliance, and the Education Commission.
The workshop sought to cover the following issues:
Gaining ethical consent from patients for content released as OER
The guide covers general ethical principles to consider as well the importance of obtaining consent in line with the cultural context within which one is working.
A Government Policy Development Template to Progress Effective Implementation of Open Educational Resources (OER)
The concept of OER has emerged as having great potential to support educational transformation, given its principle of the right to education by all. It is considered a worthwhile option, particularly in the context of spiralling education costs and the need to make education more accessible, affordable and useable.
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Professional Development Strategy for Teachers in Guyana: A Case Study
The Guyana case study demonstrates that ICT can be used effectively as a catalyst for educational change. The potential benefits that can be derived from embracing ICT tools and content (in the form of OER) are significant and can enhance teaching and learning, administration and communication.
Using UNESCO’s ICT Competency Framework for Teachers in Guyana
The ICT CFT intends to inform educational policy makers, teachereducators, providers of professional learning and working teachers on the role of ICT in educational reform, as well as to assist countries in developing national ICT competency standards for teachers with an ICT in Education Master Plan approach.
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.