Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

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dc.contributor.authorEdited by Williams, Cheryl Hodgkinson
dc.contributor.authorEdited Arinto, Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-25T11:08:19Z
dc.date.available2019-01-25T11:08:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was proposed to investigate in what ways and under what circumstances the adoption of Open Educational Resources (OER) could address the increasing demand for accessible, relevant, high-quality and affordable education in the Global South. The project was originally intended to focus on post-secondary education, but the scope was expanded to include basic education teachers and government funding when it launched in 2013. In 2014, the research agenda was further expanded to include the potential impact of OER adoption and associated Open Educational Practices (OEP). ROER4D was funded by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Open Society Foundations (OFS), and built upon prior research undertaken by a previous IDRC-funded initiative, the PAN Asia Networking Distance and Open Resources Access (PANdora) project. This chapter presents the overall context in which the ROER4D project was located and investigated, drawing attention to the key challenges confronting education in the Global South and citing related studies on how OER can help to address these issues. It provides an abbreviated history of the project and a snapshot of the geographic location of the studies it comprises, the constituent research agendas, the methodologies adopted and the research-participant profile. It also provides an overview of the other 15 chapters in this volume and explains the peer review process.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHodgkinson-Williams, C. & Arinto, P. B. (2017). Adoption and impact of OER in the Global South. Cape Town & Ottawa: African Minds, International Development Research Centre & Research on Open Educational Resources. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1005330en_US
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-55250-599-1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12342/482
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAfrican Minds, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project.en_US
dc.subjectAdoptionen_US
dc.subjectImpact of OERen_US
dc.subjectGlobal Southen_US
dc.subjectAfrican Mindsen_US
dc.subjectResearch on Open Educational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectFactors influencing Open Educational Practicesen_US
dc.subjectOpen Access and OER in Latin Americaen_US
dc.subjectTracking the money for Open Educational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectCo-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Cen_US
dc.subjectEffectiveness of OER use in first-year higher education studentsen_US
dc.subjectHigher education faculty attitudeen_US
dc.subjectCultural–historical factors influencing OER adoption in Mongolien_US
dc.subjectFactors shaping lecturers’ adoption of OER at three South African universitiesen_US
dc.subjectTeacher professional learning communitiesen_US
dc.subjectOER and OEP in the Global Souten_US
dc.titleAdoption and Impact of OER in the Global Southen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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