Accra, Oct. 18, GNA – A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) seeking to increase collaboration and networking among university leaders, managers and academics across African has been signed in Accra on Tuesday.It was signed by the Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa, and Association of African Universities (AAU) to help improve curricula and promote access to better quality and more affordable educational materials....
Monday, May 2, 2011
The eLearning Africa conference programme for 2011 features contributions from 260 speakers from 49 countries, including representatives from global organisations such as UNEP, UNESCO/UNEVOC and the World Bank, as well as from national educational institutions across Africa. Berlin, Germany. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. eLearning Africa 2011 has set its sights [...]
Monday, February 21, 2011
The African Virtual University (AVU) launched the interactive Open Education Resources portal OER@AVU in January this year. The portal can be accessed at http://oer.avu.org and contains quality resources developed together with twelve universities in ten African countries. The resources are released under the Creative Commons open licence...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Open Education: Changing Educational Practices (extended deadline 22 January 2011). The presence of open education has spread to hundreds of educational institutions across the globe, in particular centres for higher education and adult learning. Starting with important initiatives demanding access to information and spreading quickly into the making available of educational resources, it has became [...]
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning extend an open invitation to attend a Policy Forum on Open Educational Resources (OERs) next month in Paris within the framework of the UNESCO-COL initiative, “Taking OER beyond the OER community: Policy and Capacity”. The UNESCO/COL OER Policy Forum will examine the results of the “Taking OER beyond the [...]
Saturday, July 31, 2010
This year’s EFQUEL Innovation Forum, the fourth in the highly successful series of European gatherings, will take place in Lisbon, Portugal in collaboration with the Catholic University of Portugal and the National Institute for Public Administration of Portugal. From September 8-10, 2010, in the Palace of the former Marquises of Pombal, in Oeiras, Lisbon, and [...]
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
The Open Educational Quality Initiative will focus on provision of innovative open educational practices and promote quality, innovation and transparency in higher and adult education. The OPAL Initiative is a partnership between seven organizations including the ICDE, UNESCO, European Foundation for Quality, the Open University UK, Aalto University and the Catholic University Portugal. It is [...]
Friday, June 18, 2010
In many African schools, teachers face not only a lack of student materials, but also a lack of access to teaching resources. In spite of the operative attempt of generous donors to solve the problem by supplying schools by equipment such as book copies, the difficulties are not relieved. In many countries; there is a [...]
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Arabgridforlearning.com is part of a global collaboration “Global Grid for learning” to connect a billion digital resources to education by 2018. That is why it works for supporting the Arab education community in the creation of open education content and professional development along with facilitating the sharing of free resources. Being innovative and leader in [...]
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
iMedPub is an open-access editorial, translation, and publishing service created to provide medical content for health professionals, patients and families. iMedPub aims to raise the visibility and utility of medical information originating in English- and Spanish-language research and publications. The success of this editorial, translation, and publishing service will depend on sponsors and support from [...]
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
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