Blog: A look at the open learning policy framework for post-school education and training in South Africa
In our latest blog post ROER4D Network Hub member Sarah Goodier reviews the Open Learning Policy Framework for Post-school Education and Training, which was released for public consultation by the South African Minister of Higher Education and Training, and to which ROER4D responded with comments and suggestions. Of particular interest in the draft policy framework is the definition of “open learning” and of the role OER is envisaged to play in the implementation.
ROER4D publishes Open Dataset from Afghanistan
Last week the ROER4D Curation & Dissemination team, in conjunction with DataFirst, published The dataset can be viewed on the ROER4D portal on DataFirst. This is the sixth open dataset published by ROER4D.
New MOOC on Open Education launched
A new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) entitled Introduction to Open Education has been launched and is currently open for enrollment. The MOOC is convened by David Wiley (Lumen Learning) and George Siemens (University of Texas at Arlington) and is offered via the edX platform. Enrollment is currently open with the course starting 1 October 2017.
Report on Open Universities in the Commonwealth now available Open Education Degrees Panel Discussion part of August’s
All the best for this week Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and the ROER4D Network Hub team.
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has published a report of the results of a survey of open universities in the Commonwealth. The report entitled