[Oer-community] educational policy and OER

[Paul Silva]

Dear All,
 
Poncelet's remark that ICT Teacher Training as part of OER capacity building is still necessary in Africa and some other regions ties into the response by Bakary Diallo on “using OCW/OER as a platform”; raising the question of what is the participatory level of the sub-Saharan Africa to the African Virtual University’s Teacher Education Programmes? 
Does AVU work collaboratively across the region, and how supportive have the various governments been to the work of the AVU and how have such relationships impact ICT capacity building in the region? On the surface, these questions may seem redundant as Diallo’s posting provides impressive links of partners. 
However, these are pertinent questions that should concern the OER community here when considering the OER Policy (in view of Mary Lou’s very useful examples) and the AVU’s in relation to not only the African continent, but as part of the global reach of the OER model. 
Why is this so? Without sound humanistic principles underpinning the OER global and regional policy framework, a situation I gleaned from the AVU links, which Diallo kindly provided suggest that AVU has a strong partnership with Senegal, but none whatsoever with the Gambia for whatever reason. If I’m not wrong Senegal and Gambia are neighbours and at one time in their history had tried to combine to form one country, Sene-Gambia…? The relationship between political strife and regressive competitiveness amongst some African regions vis-à-vis West vs. East; South, East, West’s very weak relationship with North Africa, if any should help policy makers to think carefully on progressive policies and not make policies to maintain the status quo. I’m not suggesting this is the case with the AVU, rather that such issues should be examined when discussing OER policy. I would like to thank Prof. Bakary Diallo for the ongoing work at the African Virtual
 University. 
Paul A. SILVA PhD 
Professor of Literary Studies & Education 
www.uie.edu.es/moodle 

Re: [Oer-community] OER Funding and Sustainability
Thursday, 7 October, 2010 12:48
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"Poncelet Ileleji" <pileleji at ymca.gm>

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{“}Dear Paul, 
Greetings from The Gambia, your write up is well noted, in fact as you rightly said {…} Capacity building is still an issue especially within the African continent {…} 
I will like to know if support for practitioners in terms of more professional training exist in terms of grants or fellowships and what the community in general can do, the sooner it becomes a main agenda the better, we can see 2015 is not far away can a lot o f developing countries really reach the UN MDG objective by then?{”} 
  
Re: [Oer-community] Using OCW/OER as a platform Friday, 8 October, 2010 8:35 

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"Bakary Diallo" <bdiallo at avu.org>

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{“} The process has generated lot of enthusiasm from the 12 participating universities who have requested AVU to form a Teacher Education Virtual Consortium www.avu.org/Teacher-Education-Virtual-Consortium/teacher-education-virtual-consortium.html  {…} 
Member States means the Republic of Kenya, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali and Cote d'ivore {”}

--- On Fri, 8/10/10, Mary Lou Forward <mlforward at ocwconsortium.org> wrote:

 


      
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