William & Flora Hewlett Foundation/COL Open Education Resources for Open Schools: Input Indicator Evaluation Report

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2009
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South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE)
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Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver
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This report is the first of two indicator Report on the Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) Open Educational Resources (OERs) project implemented in six countries: Namibia, Botswana, India, Lesotho, Trinidad & Tobago and Seychelles. The project has as its main aim the training of a 100 master teachers in the development of high quality, self-instructional, learning materials. Materials to support independent study in twenty selected secondary schooling subjects will be developed and made available electronically as OERs. Basecamp software (together with the CoL instructional design template) has been used to facilitate a collaborative, online approach to materials development and as a tool for managing the process. It is intended that the materials developed will, with some contextual adaptation, be suitable for use across the six countries thus maximising their usage. It is also anticipated that after the project itself has been completed, the master teachers will be able to cascade their training and train other teachers in their respective countries in this type of materials development
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Open Educational Resources (OER), Open Schooling
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Namibia, Botswana, India, Lesotho, Trinidad and Tobago, Seychelles
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