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Open Educational Resources (OER) are becoming more and more important in Africa, but teaching and learning strategies involved are not necessarily effective.

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa facilitates the deployment of OER at several universities on the African continent. In this podcast, Neil Butcher, Educational Consultant at the South African Institute for Distance Education, Johannesburg, talks about this initiative, the role of OER in Africa, and how their benefits can be harnessed effectively.

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For more information, please see:
www.oerafrica.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.oerafrica.org/phea

The Bishop of West Africa, a group of teenage “beach boys” on the island of Zanzibar and a young woman journalist in Tunisia have one thing in common: They pioneer surprising and unconventional uses of online and mobile technology.

Several of these self-taught “digital pioneers” in Africa keep diaries of their work and will present them at eLearning Africa 2010 - either directly or online - bringing authentic voices of ICT users to the Conference and inspiring a discussion on the power of unstructured learning.

In this podcast, Stephen Haggard, one of the initiators of the project, tells us more about his “African Online Heroes”.

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For more information on the project, please click:
sites.google.com/site/africandigitaldiarieslusaka/