Open Educational Resources

I've just completed facilitating a workshop to develop open educational resources for the Commonwealth of Learning (COL). I was working with 2 subject teams from the Botswana College of Distance & Open Learning. The purpose of the project is to develop local online content for secondary education and to help increase the use of new teaching and learning technologies in the classroom. There are 6 countries in the project - Seychelles, Trinidad & Tobago, Namibia, India & Lesotho.

It was a really interesting group of participants and we had a fun - but exhausting - 2 weeks. We got to play with all sorts of exciting things like podcasts and blogs as well as revise some courses to include multimedia elements. They have all gone away to write the materials and we will come together again for another workshop later in the year.

I was asked to be the Country Consultant for Botswana by my colleague at COL who used to be the Director of NAMCOL in Namibia when I was the Technical Adviser there 10 years ago - so that was great!