Fwd: UNESCO supports SOO-Africa OERising move - great!!

[Primah Kwagala]

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Announcement updated by Lindsay Young via Open Educational Resources (OER)

High Level Workshop on OpenupEd OER and MOOCs for the National Open University of Nigeria

UNESCO and the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities (EADTU) are conducting a High Level OpenupEd Workshop on 10 - 11 September 2014 at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) in Lagos. More info here: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/events/calendar-of-events/communication-and-information-events/?tx_browser_pi1%5bshowUid%5d=29253&cHash=9988308b1a
 
 
 
 
 
 

http://www.wsis-community.org/pg/announcements/view/1880748/

On 22 Aug 2014 13:36, "Alex Gakuru" <gak...@creativecommons.org> wrote:

Thanks to those whom have responded. Whom else is interested in getting involved?

On 21 Aug 2014 17:56, "Alex Gakuru" <gak...@creativecommons.org> wrote:

Dear friends,

Your great interest in School of Open Africa launch and connected activities has been both very inspiring and challenging us to support it even more! I am delighted to report that UNESCO is interested in supporting OER initiatives initiated by SOO-Africa thanks to Creative Commons.  

Firstly, exciting developments from Kenya.

In addition to what you have read at Kayode's blog post, Jamlab crew (high schoolers) will also be trained on fine curriculum development by a team led by a senior lecturer at University of Nairobi www.C4Dlab.ac.ke. This will capacitate them with professional OER curriculum development skills for high schools, from SOO-Africa launch onwards. The C4DLab team of lecturers will themselves produce at least 4(university level) OER curriculum products. Very exciting!

Would you be similarly interested in OERising specific education resources for your country? Can you OERise items from your official national curriculum? Can you forge an OERisation collaboration with your national curriculum institution?  

If “yes” and any or all of the above, then please, answer “what”, “when”, “where”, “who”, “why” and “how” questions providing...

a. Programme

b. List of training materials, experts
c. List of items to be OERized

Next,

Urgently prepare a budget clearly indicating your OER outputs and due dates.

You are permitted to submit more than one proposal. Send them to me for onward conveyance to UNESCO.

Don't just sit back and let your country be left out of the great Africa OERisation move.

Asante sana!

Alex

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[Reinier Battenberg]

Hi Primah,

Can you explain a bit wat OER curriculum development is? And what type of
initiatives will UNESCO sponsor? Could you point to some (online) examples?

rgds,

reinier


On Wednesday 03 September 2014 13:09:57 Primah Kwagala wrote:
> OER curriculum development

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rgds,

Reinier Battenberg
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[Primah Kwagala]

Hello Reinier,

Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning or research materials that are in the public domain or released with an intellectual property license that allows for free use, adaptation, and distribution. -See http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to-knowledge/open-educational-resources/

UNESCO and Creative Commons are seeking teams that can OERise information that should be publicly accessible for educational purposes. If you can identify curricullar/ texts/books/ information and are able to make it publicly accessible then refer to the e-mail below / get back to me should you need guidance

On 21 Aug 2014 17:56, "Alex Gakuru" <gak...@creativecommons.org> wrote:

Dear friends,

Your great interest in School of Open Africa launch and connected activities has been both very inspiring and challenging us to support it even more! I am delighted to report that UNESCO is interested in supporting OER initiatives initiated by SOO-Africa thanks to Creative Commons.  

Firstly, exciting developments from Kenya.

In addition to what you have read at Kayode's blog post, Jamlab crew (high schoolers) will also be trained on fine curriculum development by a team led by a senior lecturer at University of Nairobi www.C4Dlab.ac.ke. This will capacitate them with professional OER curriculum development skills for high schools, from SOO-Africa launch onwards. The C4DLab team of lecturers will themselves produce at least 4(university level) OER curriculum products. Very exciting!

Would you be similarly interested in OERising specific education resources for your country? Can you OERise items from your official national curriculum? Can you forge an OERisation collaboration with your national curriculum institution?  

If “yes” and any or all of the above, then please, answer “what”, “when”, “where”, “who”, “why” and “how” questions providing...

a. Programme

b. List of training materials, experts
c. List of items to be OERized

Next,

Urgently prepare a budget clearly indicating your OER outputs and due dates.

You are permitted to submit more than one proposal. Send them to me for onward conveyance to UNESCO.

Don't just sit back and let your country be left out of the great Africa OERisation move.

Asante sana!

Alex

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