Open Educational Resources: Reflections from Global Perspectives

http://www.wiziq.com/course/28219-the-oer-mooc

Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA)

http://www.tessafrica.net/

TESSA: five distinct characteristics

• it is a global consortium, including organisations like the – BBC World Service Trust– the Commonwealth of Learning– the South African Institute for Distance Education

(SAIDE)• Focusses on the needs of teacher education in

nine African countries.

Audience-specific OERs

• audience-specific OERs• Teacher educator: centre of the initiative {vast

majority of the OER's have been created collaboratively by teacher educators from across Africa}

Different formats

• creatively exploring the use of OER audio content.

• different formats - drama, interviews, features - and modes of delivery including radio, CD and use of mobile phones.

Implementation and use of the resources

• Significant time and resources is being put into the implementation and use of the resources, an aspect given insufficient attention in many OER initiatives (Atkins et al 2007).

• Project design: stress on issues such as – adoption of the resources for different environments

and – how best 'users' can be supported in understanding

ways of integrating the materials into ‘learning pathways'. Atkins, D. E., Brown, J. E. and Hammond, A. L. (2007) A review of the Open Educational resources (OER)

Movement: Achievement, Challenges and New Opportunities. Report to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Open Educational Quality (OPAL) Initiative

Why is OPAL Innovative?

• It extends the model of OER with the concepts of quality and innovation into the concept of open educational practices (OEP) where OER are used in innovative educational scenarios to raise quality for higher education (HE) and adult education (AE)

OPAL: innovation and quality

It focuses on innovation and quality through OEP and thus aims at impact of OER use in the field of HE and AE. Existing approaches for fostering the use of OER have made achievements by focussing on building access to resources (e.g. MERLOT, MIT OCW, Stanford iTunes, Openlearn, Rice University, Opentrain UNESCO, OER WIKI UNESCO etc.) and licence models (e.g. creativecommons.org).

OPAL: multi-stakeholder environment

• It is building a multi-stakeholder environment which is taking into consideration the OEP governance community in order to root quality and innovation in a deep consensus, concert activities and provide a European interface to international initiatives.

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