1. AgShare: Building Community and Content with Multiple PartnersFunded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Karen Vignare Director, MSUglobal Michigan State University

2. What is AgShare? What is Ag? All aspects of African animal, plant, forestry, and fisheries production and value networks. What is Share? Action Collaboration Intentionally creating and sharing African teaching, learning and research resources that are free, openly-licensed and effective.

3. What is the scope of AgShare? Community-Wide Partners Resource Partners

4. What is the scope of AgShare? Building Relationships & Capacity Community-Wide Partners Content Providers

5. AgShare’s Vision of Success To have a scalable, sustainable, and open system for African publishing, localizing, and sharing of teaching and learning materials that fill critical resource gaps in African MSc agriculture curriculum and that can be modified for other downstream uses.

7. by empowering MSc students and graduates of African institutions

8. to achieve change in agriculture

9. by leveraging African knowledge through OER processes and products

11. Pilots Started June 2010 3 Countries: Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya 4 Universities Haramaya University, Ethiopia Moi University, Kenya Makerere University, Uganda United States International University, Kenya 2 University Networks AERC (CMAAE) RUFORUM

13. Promising Pilot Methods Resource Partners Community-Wide Partners Faculty and Curriculum Student Agents of Change (research, internships) Downstreaming OER Upstreaming OER

14. OER Content Publishing Process Commonwealth of Learning Other Publish OER material on Institutional Website/Repository GLOBE Alliance Folksemantic Search code placed on third party sites to search content available on OER Africa database Learning Registry Material ready for release as OER Other Content federated to Global OER Repositories Publish OER material on the OER Africa Website OCWC Content metadata federated to Global OER Links Databases OER Commons Other Generate metadata and collect related assets Content and metadata indexed by search engines Google/Bing/Yahoo News releases about content publicised on various channels Other Facebook/Twitter/Delicious/Digg - Marketing/Social Networking News websites (COL Connexions, Saide newsletter, Open Education News, University News, others

16. AgShare Results in Progress Evidence of impact Increased discoverability Advocacy for open sharing Catalyst role for students (ie. AgShare Fellows)

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