OER in Higher Education

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OER in Higher Education

This section provides links to African OER initiatives and repositories to which African higher education institutions may contribute. The What’s New section provides targeted, singular messages aimed at educators, students, and the global OER community. The communications explore relevant OER-related topics. They primarily highlight OER from Africa, but might also feature resources from elsewhere in the world that are pertinent to Africa. This includes journal articles, blog posts, courseware, and research.

OER Initiatives in Africa

12 January 2018

Find a list of OER initiatives in Africa in various areas, including OER adaptation, OER reuse, OER repositories or portals, continuous professional development, and research.

OER Websites and Repositories to Which Africa Contributes

14 May 2018

Where do you find OER? There is no one-stop shop for OERs, no single repository where they are stored. Below are some websites and repositories where OER from Africa and other parts of the world can be located and used.

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What's Happening in OER in Africa

14 August 2018

This section provides the latest blogs, news, and events relating to OER in African higher education, including notices about new policies, research, events/conferences.

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Featured Initiatives

Open access to picture storybooks in the languages of Africa. For children's literacy, enjoyment and imagination.

All the materials of AfriVIP are Open Education Resources (OER) and therefore carry an open license (Creative Commons), allowing it to be freely copied, distributed, and adapted without asking copyright permission.

The African Virtual University (AVU) is a Pan African Intergovernmental Organization established by charter with the mandate of significantly increasing access to quality higher education and training through the innovative use of information communication technologies.

OpenUCT is the open access institutional repository of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It makes available and digitally preserves the scholarly outputs produced at UCT, including theses and dissertations, journal articles, book chapters, technical and research reports, and open educational resources. These resources are organised into collections that are mapped against the university's organisational structure.