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Thakrar, Jayshree; Wolfenden, Freda; Zinn, Denise

The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to ...

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Lane, Andy; Iiyoshi, Toru; Kumar, M. S. V.

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Ferreira, Giselle

As a source of materials for education the Web is, to a large extent, shifting ground. Open Educational Resources (OER) provided by Higher Education Institutions constitute, at least in principle, a reliable category of ...

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Reischer, Matthias; Khalil, Mohammad; Ebner, Martin; Kloos, Carlos Delgado; et al.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new form of learning environment aimed towards accessibility and openness using contemporary technologies. One of the MOOC's key features is the social interaction which usually ...

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Windle, Richard J.; Wharrad, Heather; McCormick, Damion; Laverty, Helen; Taylor, Michael G.

The open educational resource (OER) movement has the potential to have a truly transformative effect on higher education, but in order to do so it must move into the mainstream and facilitate widespread participation in ...

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South African Institute for Distance Education; OER Africa

This is a short, simple tutorial to acquire the skills necessary to search for open content, decipher Creative Commons rights and permissions and evaluate the usefulness of Open Educational Resources (OER) for new ...

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Aleman de la Garza, Lorena; Sancho Vinuesa, Teresa; Gomez Zermeño, Marcela Georgina

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have generated high expectations and revolutionized some educational practices by providing open educational resources for reference, usage and adaptation; therefore, their ...

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Santos-Hermosa, Gema; Ferran-Ferrer, Núria; Abadal, Ernest

This article provides an overview of the current state of repositories of open educational resources (ROER) in higher education at international level. It analyses a series of educational indicators to determine whether ...

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Harley, Ken

As part of the Hewlett Foundation grant for the African Health OER Network, Professor Ken Harley (University of KwaZulu-Natal) conducts an annual external evaluation of the project. For his 2009 evaluation, Prof Harley ...

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Balaji, Venkataraman; Sodhi, Balwinder; Prabhakar, T V

Presentation slides of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences Brainstorming Session in partnership with COL, New Delhi, India, 5 March 2014. By Venkataraman Balaji, Commonwealth of Learning, co-written with ...

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