Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Jayshree Thakrar, Freda Wolfenden, Denise Zinn
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2009
Materias:	open educational resources teacher education sub-saharan Africa TESSA integration university of fort hare Special aspects of education LC8-6691
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/21ea2aa4ca67471d87c3e002d57d3b3d
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:21ea2aa4ca67471d87c3e002d57d3b3d
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:21ea2aa4ca67471d87c3e002d57d3b3d2021-12-02T19:25:15ZHarnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa10.19173/irrodl.v10i4.7051492-3831https://doaj.org/article/21ea2aa4ca67471d87c3e002d57d3b3d2009-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/705https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international organisations delivering teacher education across 9 countries) designed and produced a bank of open educational resources (OERs) to guide teachers’ classroom practices in school-based teacher education. Drawing on examples from the TESSA consortium and from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, the authors categorize the forms of TESSA OER integration as highly structured, loosely structured, or guided use. The paper concludes by outlining success factors for the integration of OERs: accessibility, adequate resources, support for teachers, accommodation of local cultural and institutional practices, and sustainable funding.Jayshree ThakrarFreda WolfendenDenise ZinnAthabasca University Pressarticleopen educational resourcesteacher educationsub-saharan AfricaTESSAintegrationuniversity of fort hareSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 10, Iss 4 (2009)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	open educational resources teacher education sub-saharan Africa TESSA integration university of fort hare Special aspects of education LC8-6691
spellingShingle	open educational resources teacher education sub-saharan Africa TESSA integration university of fort hare Special aspects of education LC8-6691 Jayshree Thakrar Freda Wolfenden Denise Zinn Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
description	The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international organisations delivering teacher education across 9 countries) designed and produced a bank of open educational resources (OERs) to guide teachers’ classroom practices in school-based teacher education. Drawing on examples from the TESSA consortium and from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, the authors categorize the forms of TESSA OER integration as highly structured, loosely structured, or guided use. The paper concludes by outlining success factors for the integration of OERs: accessibility, adequate resources, support for teachers, accommodation of local cultural and institutional practices, and sustainable funding.
format	article
author	Jayshree Thakrar Freda Wolfenden Denise Zinn
author_facet	Jayshree Thakrar Freda Wolfenden Denise Zinn
author_sort	Jayshree Thakrar
title	Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_short	Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full	Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_fullStr	Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_full_unstemmed	Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
title_sort	harnessing open educational resources to the challenges of teacher education in sub-saharan africa
publisher	Athabasca University Press
publishDate	2009
url	https://doaj.org/article/21ea2aa4ca67471d87c3e002d57d3b3d
work_keys_str_mv	AT jayshreethakrar harnessingopeneducationalresourcestothechallengesofteachereducationinsubsaharanafrica AT fredawolfenden harnessingopeneducationalresourcestothechallengesofteachereducationinsubsaharanafrica AT denisezinn harnessingopeneducationalresourcestothechallengesofteachereducationinsubsaharanafrica
_version_	1718376544658784256

Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ejemplares similares