The Open AIR project focuses on the future of innovation, open IP, and innovation in Africa. The workshop examines assumptions regarding the necessity for strong Intellectual Property (IP) protection as a prerequisite for innovation (i.e.
Lack of an Open Educational Resources (OER) strategy or policy by most provincial and state employers makes sharing of educators’ materials unlikely.
A broad overview of Research on Open Educational for Development (ROER4D) is presented with Open Educational Resources (OER) promoted as a response to some challenges facing education in developing countries; a discussion of degrees of openness in
Distance learning institutions intending to reuse Open Educational Resources (OER) for development of course materials need to orient and train course writers in basic understanding about OER, open licencing, and skills related to findability and
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) operational definition of Open Research is: the process of conducting and sharing research on publicly accessible platforms in order for others to freely access, use, modify, and
The PowerPoint presentation reviews aspects of e-learning as a response to growing populations and educational economies, changing technologies, lack of infrastructure, expensive connectivity, limited bandwidth and changing and contested conceptio
This paper examines three tools for analysing lecturers’ adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher educational settings: an analytical framework (OER Adoption Pyramid); a comparative heuristic (OER Readiness Tables); a differentiating
The objective is to improve educational policy, practice and research in developing countries by better understanding the use and impact of Open Educational Resources (OER).
One of the core underpinnings of the open access publishing movement is public access to publicly funded research.
The longstanding crisis of the developing world library is coming to an end, but not in the way most observers anticipated. Resource scarcity, limited holdings and poor infrastructure remain the norm.