This section provides links to African repositories and international repositories to which African institutions contribute.
Siyavula Open Textbooks
12 April 2018
Siyavula is a South African website that offers quality, curriculum-aligned maths and science textbooks span Grades 4-12. You can read them online, or download them all totally for free. It urges learning through practising and offers books with quizzes and questions for learner engagement
Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)
12 April 2018
TESSA is a network of teachers and teacher educators stretching across Sub-Saharan Africa. At the heart of the network is a bank of open educational resources (OER), linked to the school curriculum, and designed to support teachers and teacher educators in developing active approaches to learning. The network is co-ordinated by The Open University, UK.
Open Education Global (OEG)
12 April 2018
Open Education Global is a member-based, global, non-profit supporting the development and use of open education around the world
Teachers without Borders
12 April 2018
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
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)
12 April 2018
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)
12 April 2018
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
12 April 2018
OER Africa has a search facility that looks specifically at OER generated by African contributors.
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)
12 April 2018
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
CCCOER provides links to journals, articles and other sites that have different subjects and topics for OER purposes
Open Learning Initiative
12 April 2018
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.