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William & Flora Hewlett Foundation/COL open education resources for open schools
Bialobrzeska, Maryla · Hellmann, Liora · Moore, Andrew

PublishedOctober 2011
PeriodicalPages 1-103
PublisherSouth African Institute for Distance Education
CountrySouth Africa, Africa

ABSTRACT
The project has been developed for a range of stakeholders including the funder, the COL project team, the country consultants and the teachers.Specifically, for the funder, the report provides an analysis of the project’s overall achievement in terms of the main objectives of the study. And for The COL project team, the report provides an analysis of the project activities, achievement of high quality, relevant and effective materials and an analysis of the potential for increased quality of education in countries where OERs are used and where teachers’ professional capacity was extended to the use of technology.

Keywords William and Flora Hewlett Foundation · best practices · open schools · alternate schools · Commonwealth of Learning · OER creation · policy

Languageeng
RefereedDoes not apply
Rightsby/4.0
URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/11599/202
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