OER Websites and Repositories to Which Africa Contributes
This section provides links to African repositories and international repositories to which African Higher Education Institutions may contribute. This collection of OER and open access repositories was collected in relation to our themes, namely, Agriculture, Health, Teacher Education and Early Literacy Skills. There are also however repositories covering all subjects.
Open Education Global (OEG)
Open Education Global is a member-based, global, non-profit supporting the development and use of open education around the world
Teachers without Borders
Teachers Without Borders promotes the free and open use of collective wisdom generated by teacher leaders from every culture to help all teachers work more effectively. In essence they provide training material for teacher by teachers to help accelerate the learning process and improve classroom conditions and involvement
Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ (Open Access Research Site)
DOAJ is a community-curated list of open access journals and aims to be the starting point for all information searches for quality, peer reviewed open access material. It contains approximately 10000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
OpenDoar (Open Access Research Site)
OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. They provide tools and support to both repository administrators and service providers in sharing best practice and improving the quality of the repository infrastructure
OER4Schools (University of Cambridge)
OER4Schools is a practical professional development (PD) programme for school-based teacher education, supporting teachers to embed interactive methods of teaching and learning into classroom practice through the exploitation of mobile technologies.
OER Africa
OER Africa has a search facility that looks specifically at OER generated by African contributors.
University of South Africa (UNISA) Institutional Repository
University of South Africa (UNISA) has a OER section in its institutional repository, where they have made available resources and journals open to the public.
National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is an open and distance learning (ODL) institution. It offers a wide range of courses and downloadable material for educational purposes and a integrated search engine that allows for multiple filters for maximun efficiency
Brigham Young University
BYU offers 6 courses under its opencourseware link that might pique your interest.
Carnegie Mellon University, Open Learning Initiative
Opening Learning Initiative is a website providing free online courses. It offers courses and learning material for fields such as Anatomy, physiology , biology, biochemisty and psychology.
College of Eastern Utah's OpenCourseWare
College of Utah has a comprehensive list of available courses on their OCW website. The list is comprehensive and incliudes Agriculture, Education, Engineering and many others.
Grenoble Ecole de Management
Futurelarn is the OCW for GEDM which provides free courseware to the public. The courses are listed along with the time for completion and a brief description.