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Megan Beckett megan@siyavula.com www.siyavula.com Open Education - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Megan Beckett megan@siyavula.com www.siyavula.com Open Education - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Megan Beckett megan@siyavula.com www.siyavula.com Open Education breaking down barriers What does this mean to us at Siyavula and to South Africa? South Africa's context and challenges South Africa's context and challenges South Africa's
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South Africa's context and challenges
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South Africa's context and challenges
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South Africa's context and challenges
All contexts are challenging Every child deserves a chance
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Opening up access to education and resources will help
Build capacity by providing access to tools, content and communities of practice Reduce the cost of access to educational materials Adapt and develop materials relevant to Africa
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Siyavula – 'we are opening'
Siyavula is a social enterprise built on community, openness and technology, working to make high quality education available to every learner and teacher in South Africa.
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Siyavula's OER content
Curriculum aligned Collaboratively authored Gr 4-12 Maths and Science focused English and Afrikaans
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Technology enables and enriches
Available on web, mobile and Mxit (chatroom service in South Africa) Over 800 000 learners reading content on mobile every month Embedded videos and simulations Make it easy for teachers to implement technology in the classroom
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Creating an open textbook
An open, transparent and collaborative process for maximum impact
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Benefits of collaborative OER production
Relevant to many different contexts and backgrounds Scrutiny of the content Space for people to give back meaningfully to education in South Africa Build a community around the open textbooks
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Seed communities of open practice
Share ideas Learn about OER Build skills Adopt and adapt Localize Translate
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National distribution in South Africa
Work in collaboration with government Department of Education reviews and endorses content in workshops and
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Printed and distributed open textbooks for whole country About 10 million books so far
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South African education system is in a crisis
Opening up education and making resources openly available will help enormously We also need equality, training, capacity and accountability We are all part of the solution “Some children are more equal than others” YouTube: bit.ly/equalchildren
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What have our open efforts achieved in South Africa?
Breaking down the barriers to education in South Africa
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What have our open efforts achieved in South Africa?
Breaking down the barriers to education in South Africa Open processes and collaboration builds a community of sharing Strengthens the work we do
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What have our open efforts achieved in South Africa?
Breaking down the barriers to education in South Africa Open processes and collaboration builds a community of sharing Strengthens the work we do Broader impact in South Africa (and beyond) Government: understanding benefits of open policy General public: involved in an education project with huge impact Educators: learning about and using OER Learners: engage with a 'living' resource and understand OER
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Challenges and sustainability
Technology Awareness Sustainability Open business models
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