Saide is very proud to announce that our Education Studies series are now available on our OER Africa website. They consist of a comprehensive multi-media series aimed to develop teachers' abilities to use theory in practice as teachers. The modules consist of learning guides, edited readings, audio and video resources.
This Unisa accredited Short Learning Programme was designed and developed by the Unisa College of Agriculture and Environmental Science (UCAES) and the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) together with a number of other community development stakeholders from various institutions (e.g. Agricultural Research Council, Medical Research Council, University of KwaZulu-Natal) with expertise in dealing with Food Security and Nutrition issues. The development of the programme was made possible through donor funding provided by the WK Kellogg Foundation.The remaining three modules of the programme are in the final stages of development and will be uploaded shortly. The programme is currently being piloted in the Eastern Cape. The materials are being released as open education resources under a creative commons licence.
Creating a Caring School: A Guide for School Management Teams with an accompanying Toolkit, is SAIDE's most recent publication. It is intended to assist school leadership and management to better understand and address the socio-economic context of schooling and the barriers to education that many of South Africa's vulnerable learners face daily.The guide is now available online licenced under a Creative Commons: Attribution licence.
Supporting Distance Learners in the 21st Century
This recently developed resource is a set of course materials intended for tutors in blended learning or fully online programmes. It takes readers reflectively through what it means to support learners in e-learning environments of a variety of kinds – both at a distance, and in conventional contact tuition environments that are web supported.It is available on SAIDE's OER Africa website. Supporting Distance Learners is also available on JorumOpen and in the University of Leicester OER repository. The development of the resource was a case study by the recently concluded Otter Project which aimed at the production and release of high quality open educational resources (OERs) drawn from teaching materials delivered at the University of Leicester.