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...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cape Town [South Africa] : Research on Open Educational Resources for Development, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • section 1. Overview
  • 1. Research on Open Educational Resources for Development in the global south : project landscape
  • 2. Factors influencing open educational practices and OER in the global south : meta-synthesis of the ROER4D project
  • 3. OER use in the global south : a baseline survey of higher education instructors
  • section 2. South America
  • 4. Open access and OER in Latin America : a survey of the policy landscape in Chile, Colombia and Uruguay
  • 5. Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia
  • 6. Effectiveness of OER use in first-year higher education students' mathematical course performance : a case study
  • section 3. Sub-Saharan Africa
  • 7. Tracking the money for open educational resources in South African basic education : what we don't know
  • 8. Teacher educators and OER in East Africa : interrogating pedagogic change
  • 9. Factors shaping lecturers' adoption of OER at three South African universities
  • 10. OER in and as MOOCs
  • section 4. South and Southeast Asia
  • 11. Cultural-historical factors influencing OER adoption in Mongolia's higher education sector
  • 12. Higher education faculty attitude, motivation and perception of quality and barriers towards OER in India
  • 13. Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka
  • 14. Teacher professional learning communities : a collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India
  • 15. An early stage impact study of localised OER in Afghanistan
  • section 5. Conclusion and recommendations
  • 16. OER and OEP in the global south : implications and recommendations for social inclusion.