OER Africa’s mission is to encourage the African education community to use existing OER and share the continent’s wealth of teaching and learning resources with others. For more detail see About Us | OER Africa
OER Africa considers this resource of high quality and ideal for repurposing for use in African and other developing world contexts.
(We obviously will only endorse OER that permit adaptations and are in a format that encourages re-editing)
This unit of study will investigate different hardware and devices which can be used in education. An overview will be provided of how to use each device as well as how to maintain the device.
This unit of study explores some of the resources which are available on the internet and how they can add value and interaction to your lessons.
This unit of study will brainstorm ideas on how MS Word can be effectively used in your classrooms in a way that will benefit both teachers and learners. (This unit focuses on MS Word but the same principles can be applied to other Word processors like Google Docs, LibreOffice Writer and Apple Pages).
This unit of study explores how using a presentation package (like MS PowerPoint or Google Slides) can enhance lessons by providing visual stimulation to assist in the communication of the teaching content.
This course has been developed to support the training of teachers to integrate ICT into their teaching practices. The materials, guides and activities are strongly aligned with the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (CFT).
While the course embraces the role ICT can bring to the classroom it is also not held prisoner by the need for high end or sophisticated technology platforms. The course can be deployed in areas of limited or no connectivity via CD ROM or memory stick as most of the resources have been previously downloaded and collected. There are also web and paper based versions of the lessons and guides.
This course uses materials that are Open Education Resources (OER) or free to use for educational purposes, allowing the use and distribution, and in some instances the repurposing of the materials, at no additional cost. (See the Open License tab for more information).
But most importantly we hope the lessons are fun and engaging enough to introduce new possibilities and refresh the participant's passion for teaching and learning.
In this unit of study we will investigate what has emerged as global good practice in terms of ICT and education, as well as identify what your role as a teacher is in this regard. In this unit we will look specifically at ICT in Education Policy and the role of the teacher.
This unit of study investigates how ICT can support the curriculum and the delivery of skills necessary to function in the 21st century.
This unit of study covers how to efficiently search for, and identify, useful OER.