Project Name
ECD Fundamentals
Project Description
Services
Early Childhood Development
Bringing together key
stakeholders in the ECD sector to
explore options for a
fundamentals learning
programme and developing
materials to support such a
programme.
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Support policy
development
Facilitate programme and
course design
Facilitate materials design
and development
Schooling
Gauteng Primary
Literacy and
Mathematics
Strategy (GPLMS)
Materials and
Versioning Review
Reviewing Foundation Phase
mathematics lesson plans and
learner materials and versioning
the new content into ten SA
languages.
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QA Policy
Development for
Open Schools
Supporting the development of
quality assurance policies for
Open Schools in Commonwealth
countries.
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Facilitate design and
development and
quality assure
materials
Project management
Support policy
development
Project management
Further Education and Training (Post Schooling)
Namcol Learner
Support Services
Harambee Step Up
Programme
Conducting research on the
nature, appropriateness and
quality of learner support
services offered by the college.
Designing experiments for
Harambee employment
candidates. Briefing tutors,
sourcing content and tracking
lessons of experience for
incorporation into pilot
programme.
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DHET FET College
Improvement
Project: Student
Academic Support
DPME/DHET Design
Evaluation of Policy
Developing a model and process
map for implementation of an
academic support system for
students in the Eastern Cape and
Limpopo FET Colleges.
Conduct a Design Evaluation of
Policy on Community Colleges.
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Conduct a stuy on
quality of learner
support services
Project management
Facilitate programme
and course design
Facilitate materials
design and
development,
Monitoring and
Formative evaluation,
Create and promote use
of OER,
Educational technology
Support
for
policy
implementation
Support for
government policy
development
Project Name
Project Description
Services
on Community
Colleges
Higher Education
Contributing to the establishment
of Sol Plaatje University
Northern Cape, as interim chair
by Saide Director Jenny Glennie.
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Supporting INED
(Mozambique) with
accreditation
processes
Supporting INED refine/develop
appropriate accreditation tools
and get orientation on
institutional and programme
accreditation.
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Mangosothu
University of
Technology
Materials
Development
Supporting the Teaching and
Learning Centre to provide
professional development for
staff from all three faculties in
Activity based Resource Based
Learning, Course Design,
Development of a generic Study
Guide Template, and e-Learning
design using Moodle/Blackboard.
Providing further support to
MUBS, Uganda on behalf of
COL, in relation to curriculum
and learning resource
development.
Developing a good practice
guide for distance education and
eLearning on behalf of the
HEQC.
Providing support as distance
education materials specialists
for online course in child
protection hosted by UKZN.
Providing instructional design
and Moodle development
support for the completion of the
Food Safety and Quality
Standards course and
practitioners version. The course
will be released as an OER.
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Sol Plaatje University
Interim Chair
Commonwealth of
Learning/Makerere
University Business
School
Council on Higher
Education Quality
Assurance Support
CPIE – Child
Protection Postgraduate Diploma
University of Cape
Coast Food Safety
and Quality
Standards Course
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Support policy
development
Build capacity
Support policy
development
Build capacity in
accreditation of
distance education
programmes
Facilitate materials
design and
development
Educational technology
Facilitate programme and
course design
Support policy development in
quality assuring dfistance
education provision
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Facilitate programme and
course design.
Facilitate materials design
and development.
Facilitate programme and
course design.
Create and promote use of
OER
Project Name
Project Description
ROER4D
(Researching OER
for Development)
Mapping of OER projects,
policies and research in subSaharan Africa.
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Create and promote use of
OER.
University of
Johannesburg School
of Leadership
Supporting UJ School of
Leadership to develop
blended/distance courses for
four Honours Level programmes
in public leadership open to all
Africans.
Facilitating the institutional
integration of the AgShare
method at Makerere, Mekelle
Sokoine and Haramaya
Universities through the
production & dissemination of
OER.
Participation by Saide Director in
the UNISA Council, its Audit
Committee (Deputy Chair)and its
ICTs Committee (Deputy
Chair).
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Facilitate programme and
course design
Educational technology
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Support policy
development
Supporting faculties in Englishspeaking African universities to
develop and implement
institutional strategies and
policies to promote the use and
creation of OER to improve
teaching and learning.
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Create and promote use of
OER
Build capacity
Strengthening
Critical Value Chains
with AgShare Open
Knowledge
UNISA Council
Jenny Glennie
OER Africa
OER Africa
2014-2017
Services
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In this next phase OER Africa will 
take the innovative approach of
integrating a Participatory Action 
Research (PAR) agenda into each of 
our institutional engagements. We
believe
that
more
focused
interactions will facilitate a
collaborative agenda and will
therefore support four carefully
selected institutional partners to:
1. build a deepened
understanding of how OER
practices can support
transformation of teaching
and learning
Facilitate programme and
course design
Create and promote use of
OER
Create and promote use of
OER
Build capacity
Contribute to African
research output
Project Name
Project Description
Services
2. ensure that such
accumulating
understanding is widely
shared and incorporated
into policy and advocacy
HEAIDS/DHET
Monitoring &
Evaluation of HIV
and AIDS
programme
implementation in
universities and
TVET colleges
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Monitoring & Evaluation of HIV
and AIDS capacity building and
curriculum programme
implementation across
universities and TVET colleges in
partnership with CEPD.
ACDE Quality
Facilitating a train-the-trainer
Assurance Workshop workshop on the use of the
ACDE Quality Assurance
Toolkit.
Unisa OER
Facilitating a workshop on OER
Workshop
for the Institute for Open
Distance Learning and Unisa.
Distance Learning
CHERTL seeks to extend their
for CHERTL, Rhodes current blended delivery mode of
University
provision for the Post Graduate
Diploma in Higher Education
(PGDHE) to encompass distance
learners, in order to serve a wider
audience of academic
development practitioners.
Monitoring and evaluation
Build capacity in quality
assuring distance education
programmes
Create and promote use of
OER.
Support for Planning
migration to DL, and
Building Capacity.
the
Teacher Education
JET initial teacher
education research
UKZN Advanced
Certificate in
Teaching Materials
Development
Preparing a report on the
structure and implementation of
initial teacher education
programmes at Unisa with a
focus on the content and
methodology for Maths and
English teacher education.
Developing Foundation Phase
materials for a mixed mode
Advanced Certificate in Teaching
for UKZN.
Applied research
Facilitate materials design and
development
Project Name
Project Description
ICDE OER Digital
Resources for DE
Teacher Educators
Developing a digital resource to
support distance education
teacher educators in
collaboration with Univesity of
Catalunya.
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Supporting the EU FP project at
CPUT to design and develop
Teacher Educator Support
Materials.
CPUT Teacher
Educator Support
Guides for EU
Project
National Institute for
the Deaf Higher
Certificate for
Educators of the
Deaf
Services
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Facilitate materials design
and development
Educational technology
Facilitate materials design and
development
Supporting the development of
the curriculum, course outlines
and development of two of the
eight modules.
Facilitate curriculum design
and materials development
Exploring how various
stakeholders may understand,
document and promote the
benefits of sharing and using
high quality OER data pools such
as the GLN/Agshare.
Supporting curriculum reform
processes in Botswana through
the Department for Curriculum
Development and Evaluation.
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Generic
Green Learning
Network
Collaboration
Curriclulm reform in
Botswana
Tony Mays
NADEOSA
Secretariat
Secretarial and information
service support to the National
Association of Distance
Education and Open Learning in
South Africa
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Build and disseminate
knowledge
Create and promote use of
OER.
Build and disseminate
knowledge
 Build capacity
 Facilitate design and
development
Build and disseminate
knowledge