Another two advance chapters released
This week ROER4D released two advance chapters emerging from the research of our sub-projects in South and Southeast Asia. Chapter 13 – IT for Change examines the sociocultural, linguistic, technological and pedagogical challenges faced by school teachers in Karantaka, India. The research team adopted an action research approach, employing face-to-face workshops, focus groups and online interactions to help develop a bottom-up approach of collaborative OER adoption. After the intervention it was found that the teachers involved had improved techno-pedagogical efficacy, were more open and collaborative in materials production, and had greater understanding of copyright and OER.
Royal Roads University acknowledges Dr Oates
We are pleased to note that Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia recently publicised the work of Dr Lauryn Oates and the SP10.4 research team in Afghanistan by writing a short article in the university’s online newsletter.
New monograph on OER in India by Sanjaya Mishra
Dr Sanjaya Mishra, Sub-project 3’s lead researcher, has published a monograph arising from their work with teachers in India. The monograph, available on the formal review of the monograph by Santosh Panda, written for the Journal of Learning for Development.
Check the comprehensiveness of the ROER4D outputs
We are busy preparing our final Technical report and would be most grateful if you could check on your outputs in the consolidated Thomas.King@uct.ac.za by 1 December 2017.
