Week 7 African eductaion

Open Eduactional Resources in Africa

Having read the whole interview Catherine Nuigi had alot of interesting things to say as far as Africa's Open Educational Resources are concerened;"OER Africa seeks to improve teaching and learning within Africa’s institutions of higher education." this is completed successfully by " providing spaces for interaction on the OER Africa website at www.oerafrica.org, we support each other via face-to-face meetings and interactions via Skype or other cost-effective communication tools with other individuals and project leaders involved in OER working on the Continent". This last point is similar to the notion of COPs as they share the same guidelines and when looking at the website as a whole there are indeed COPs available for example ACEMaths for students studying maths.

It also became clear that this form of technology serves as a techno-determinism providing the people of Africa with the education that they reall need. It is also created by a standard which relates to the people of Africa rather than on a global level which would nto relate to them historically, socially and politically; "the meta data for all of this knowledge generated for and by Africa is then sent to global repositories. In this way, OER Africa seeks to showcase the Continent as an active producer of knowledge and not merely a passive consumer of the global knowledge economy."

As a whole i believe this idea and way of learning is revolutionary for this particular country with schools and learning materials minimal compared to England or America for instance this is a sure way for all African citizens being able to get the education they deserve.

However i do wonder whether they have more guidance than the technology gives them and i also wonder how they know whether they are on the right track with their work and making progress??what do youthink