Open Learning Network

Name

Dele Yaya

Project Title

Sustainable and Successful Use of OER in the Programmes of the National Teachers’ Institute, Nigeria

Dates visited the UK

15 to 27 May 2011

Institution

National Teachers Institute, Nigeria

Name

Professor Fred Keraro

Project Title

The Readiness for Sustainable and Successful Use of OER in Higher Education in Kenya: A case study of Egerton University

Dates visited the UK

15 to 27 May 2011

Institution

Egerton University, Kenya

Name

Doris Kaije

Project Title

Large Classes as a Challenge to Implementing TESSA Materials in Rural Primary Schools in Uganda

Dates visited the UK

Did not visit the UK

Institution

Kyambogo University, Uganda

Name

Juliana Bbuye

Project Title

Skills for Sustainable and Successful Use of OER: A case study of TESSA Materials in use in Primary schools of Uganda

Dates visited the UK

15 to 27 May 2011

Institution

Makerere University, Uganda

Mrs Juliana Bbuye visited The OU in May 2011 as an OLnet fellow linked to TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa, www.tessaafrica.net), which is a major research and development initiative led by The OU and involving eighteen institutions.

Anuradha (Anu) Gungadeen is a Lecturer in Open and Distance Learning at the Centre for Open and Distance Learning, Mauritius Institute of Education, Mauritius, keen to learn more about what Olnet members are using, developing and researching in the area of open source software and digital media in Open Educational Resources (OER) creation.

OLnet is working in partnership with the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA – see http://www.tessafrica.net) project to support five Fellowship places.