Presentation made at the Kenya Symposium on Open Education

1. OPEN EDUCATIONAL
RESOURCES FOR OPEN
SCHOOLS
Frances Ferreira, Education Specialist,
Commonwealth of Learning

2. Open Schooling
Open schooling is an
appropriate response
to the rapidly
increasing demand
for secondary
education, it can be
conducted at scale
and cost-effectively.
It has the potential for
complementing the
conventional school
system and using
ICTs to scale up
education.

3. What is Open Schooling?
 The physical separation of learner from the
teacher
 The use of unconventional teaching
methodologies, and information and
communications technologies (ICTs)
 Flexible approach

4. OER4OS
• COL/WFHF
• Policy Shift
• Assistance – Ministries of Education / Teachers
• OER in 20 subjects
• Multi media 5 subjects
• 12 Subjects in Moodle

5. Building the
capacity of
teachers is KEY
when developing
OER and for
achieving
effective use of
technology in the
classroom.

6. Enabling Environment
• Ignorance re OER/CC
• Instructional Design
• Culture and work habits
• Additional workload
• Connectivity
• Bandwidth
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7. Challenges
Getting Subject Teams to Use Basecamp
for all Communication (administrative &
OER development)
Timely authoring of print-based course
units
Effective and timely communication with
Country Coordinators & Participants
Online training
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8. Challenges
The evaluation was discouraging to some participants and the project
team had to work hard to keep the teams motivated. The time and effort
which went into addressing the evaluation’s recommendations delayed
the outcome of the project significantly.
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9. Critical elements of success
Leadership
Monitoring and Evaluation
Community
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10. Open Schooling Raised the
Game…

11. Learning materials are available as OER in multiple
formats to suit as wide a range of users as possible
www.col.org
www.col.org/resources/crsMaterials/osoer/Pages/default.aspx

13. Platforms for Innovation

14. THANK YOU !