eLearning Africa 2007 - Open Content: Lessons From Practice (OPE19)

There is an emerging trend to promote and adopt open source schemes to manage and share information. There are important experiences about how Open Content is being offered by Universities and learning providers from around the world. This session offers a valuable opportunity to understand the scope and limitations of such an approach and to compare different tools and strategies related to it.

• Guilaine Thébault, Centre d'Etude d'Afrique Noire (CEAN), Senegal; Open Source and Open Content: Possibilities for eLearning? Case Studies of the AUF and the AVU in Senegal
• Gerald Rwagasana, National University of Rwanda, Rwanda; How Open Educational Resources can Contribute in Improving Physics Teaching at the University's Undergraduate Level
• Stephen Marquard, University of Cape Town, South Africa; Informal Student Use of eLearning Environments: A Case Study of Student Use of Sakai
• Chairperson: Sebastian Hoffmann, Hoffmann & Reif Consultants, Germany