The role of OER in building collaborative curricula and expanding access to education in Africa

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Who we are

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Le Consortium OpenCourseWare est une communauté mondiale de plusieurs centaines d'universités et d’institutions engagées à promouvoir les ressources éducatifs libres et faire progresser ses impacts sur l'éducation globale. Nous sommes là pour aider au démarrage et au suivi des projets OCW en tant qu’organisme de coordination du mouvement à l'échelle mondiale et en tant que creuset d'idées et d’orientations stratégiques.

The OCW Consortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of universities and associated organizations committed to advancing Open Educational Resources and their impact on global education. We serve as a resource for starting and sustaining OCW projects, as a coordinating body for the movement on a global scale, and as a forum for exchange of ideas and future planning.

300+ institutions and organizations worldwide

We support the open education movement in higher education

OER and OCW as building blocks

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Indonesia

• Distributed over 1000+ islands• Challenge of a shortage of local highly competent instructors• Support for creating high quality courses as OER • Raises the profile of these professors• Students can complete a percentage of degree requirements through

these OER

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Brazil

Successful achievement on test allows learners to print a self declaration of learning

Income range %

77% up to US$ 1250,00

Gender %

>1.5 million printed self declarations of learning from successful completion of open courses

Through open courses they are reaching a population they don’t normally serve>40% have no education or training beyond secondary school

>8.500 enrollments in formal courses

Income range %

77% up to US$ 1250,00

Gender %

>1.5 million printed self declarations of learning from successful completion of open courses

Through open courses they are reaching a population they don’t normally serve>40% have no education or training beyond secondary school

>8.500 enrollments in formal courses

Increased Access

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What about girls?

Percentage of population <15

Can make OERs print and still be cost effective – US $5.23 for 220 page open textbook printed

Challenge of ICT infrastructure

Goal of OER is to improve access to high quality education and facilitate improvements in teaching and learning

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However…

Technology is rapidly changing and impacting daily life across sectors and socio-economic indicators

From nothing to biggest money transfer system in Kenya in 5 years

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Impacting broad swath of societyTransformative change

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Importance of Mobile Devices

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