OER1005 Poster

Forging meaningful, equal partnerships in OER between the UK and Africa

Steven Stapleton, University of Nottingham

Conference Theme: Open Educational Communities

Abstract: The University of Nottingham is one of 7 Higher Education Institutions that received funding as part of the JISC UK OER Programme to investigate Open Educational Resources. A key component of Nottingham’s ‘BERLiN’ project is to build and become part of open educational communities.  To this end The University of Nottingham is facilitating a meeting in November 2009 being chaired by OER Africa and the UK Commission for UNESCO with the working title of 'Forging meaningful, equal partnerships in OER between the UK and Africa'. One of the key aims of this initiative is to build a community of UK open resource providers that are willing to work with OER Africa and respond to requests for specific open resources from them.  At the heart of the long term success of this initiative is the ability to engage an Open Educational Community. 
The poster will present the outcomes of the meeting including:

• The agreements decided upon and the process by which they were achieved
• The strategies that were implemented for moving forward
• What was achieved by the community
• What the challenges were for the community
• What was learnt as part of the process

Keywords: OER, BERLiN Project, OER Africa, UK Commission for UNESCO, Open Educational Communities