Publisher: African Minds Publishers, South Africa
Pages: 610
Year: 2017
Category: Book Publishing & The Book Trade, Education & Teaching, Educational Reform, Curricula, Publishing & Writing
Dimensions: 254 x 178mm
Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated
challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be
part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to
education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and
student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the
sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources
for Development (ROER4D) project seeks to build on and contribute to the
body of research on how OER can help to improve access, enhance quality
and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. This volume
examines aspects of educator and student adoption of OER and engagement
in Open Educational Practices (OEP) in secondary and tertiary education
as well as teacher professional development in 21 countries in South
America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. The ROER4D
studies and syntheses presented here aim to help inform Open Education
advocacy, policy, practice and research in developing countries.
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About the editors
Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams is an Associate Professor in the Centre
for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of
Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. She holds a PhD in computer-assisted
learning and has taught and supervised in the field of information
communication technologies (ICT) in education since 1994, first at the
University of Pretoria, then at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and
now at UCT. She teaches online learning design and research design in
the Educational Technology postgraduate programme and is the
coordinator of the Mellon-funded scholarships for this programme. She
supervises PhD and masters students and is a supervisor for the
Global OER Graduate Network (GO-GN). Her particular research interests
include online learning design, electronic portfolios and the adoption
and impact of OER. She is the Principal Investigator of the IDRC-funded
Research on Open Educational Resources for Development in the Global
South (ROER4D) project.
Patricia Brazil Arinto is a Professor and former Dean of the Faculty of
Education at the University of the Philippines – Open University
(UPOU). She has a Doctor in Education degree from the Institute of
Education, University of London, and has designed training programmes
on technology-supported teaching and learning for secondary school
teachers, teacher educators and university faculty in the Philippines,
Cambodia and Laos. She has also led several funded research programmes
on ICT integration in Philippine schools, including a United States
Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded blended teacher
professional development program in early literacy instruction for K-3
teachers in 2015-2017, an Australian Government-funded study on use of
tablet computers in nine public secondary schools in 2012-2014, and a
USAID-funded national assessment of the state of ICT in Philippine basic
education in 2012. She is the theme advisor for MOOC research in the
Digital Learning for Development (DL4D) project and the Deputy Principal
Investigator of the ROER4D project, both of which are funded by the
IDRC.
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