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OER@AVU Case Study

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The African Virtual University (AVU) launched its OER initiative called OER@AVU in 2011. It was part of a larger project designed to increase access to affordable education at AVU’s 27 partner institutions spanning 22 countries. It sought to encourage the collaborative creation and sharing of open, distance, and e-learning resources. Specific aims of the initiative included:

  • Providing capacity building to partner institutions through a collaborative approach to the development, alignment, and quality assurance of OER and distance curricula; and foster subject matter expert interaction as educators work to develop curricula.
  • Increasing access to higher education in sub-Saharan Africa by providing affordable education programmes in mathematics and science that are accessible outside of an institution’s physical campus.
  • Creating opportunities for women, and employees more broadly, to advance their skills through flexible learning approaches available through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)-enhanced education and OER.
  • Providing a space for African educators to discover, share, and localize OER.