OER AFRICA LAUNCHED

OER Africa is a new project aimed at leading the development and use of open educational resources (OERs) on the African continent. An initiative of the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) with seed funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, OER Africa seeks to deploy African experts and expertise to harness the concept of OERs to the benefit of higher education systems, institutions, academics and students on the continent and around the world.

OER HANDBOOK

A team led by the Center for Open and Sustainable Learning at Utah State University is creating a handbook to help people learn how to create open education resources (OERs). The project is supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, with content development hosted by COL's WikiEducator. The handbook will be a practical how-to guide for anyone getting started in the creation of OERs. It will cater to various audiences, including educators, institutions and policy makers.
www.WikiEducator.org/OER_Handbook 

MINDSET RECOGNISED FOR INNOVATION

The Society of Satellite Professionals International recently named Mindset Network as one of two 2008 Industry Innovators for System Development & Application in the for-profit sector. The award was presented in February 2008 in Washington, DC. A partner in several COL projects, Mindset Network is a non-profit, South African organisation that creates quality educational resources for primary and secondary schools, healthcare, technical/vocational education and under-resourced communities.
www.mindset.co.za 

COL JOINS GKP EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

COL has been elected to the Executive Committee that governs Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP). A network of 100 members spanning 50 countries, GKP is the world's first multi-stakeholder network dedicated to bringing together public sector, private sector and civil society organisations to share knowledge and build partnerships in support of the use of information and communication technology for development.  COL was a founding member of GKP in 1997.
www.globalknowledge.org