Your search
Results 44 resources
-
This article reviews the literature on trends and practices of recognition of prior learning (RPL) in Africa and internationally with specific reference to some of the key elements of the RPL system, including; purpose; assessment methods; quality assurance; and legislative and regulatory frameworks. In addition, a theoretical foundation of RPL is discussed underpinned by the experiential learning theory principles with a brief description of other learning theories related to RPL. The...
-
© 2018 African Federation for Emergency Medicine Introduction: Emergency nurses are usually the first to interact with critically ill patients and victims of violence and injuries, and require advanced skills and knowledge to manage such patients. Inadequate training prevents nurses from providing optimal emergency care, and it is important to investigate if there are any skills and competencies lacking in these emergency nurses. We sought to describe the self-perceived educational needs of...
-
© 2018 The Author(s). Background: Africa's health systems rely on services provided by mid-level health workers (MLWs). Investment in their training is worthwhile since they are more likely to be retained in underserved areas, require shorter training courses and are less dependent on technology and investigations in their clinical practice than physicians. Their training programs and curricula need up-dating to be relevant to their practice and to reflect advances in health professional...
-
Background: “Capacity building” is an international development strategy which receives billions of dollars of investment annually and is utilized by major development agencies globally. However, there is a lack of consensus around what “capacity building” or even “capacity” itself, means. Nurses are the frequent target of capacity building programming in sub-Saharan Africa as they provide the majority of healthcare in that region. Objectives: This study explored how “capacity” was...
-
Education and Disability in the Global South brings together new and established researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore the complexities and dilemmas encountered in providing education to children and young people with disabilities in countries in South Asia and Africa. Applying a range of methodological, theoretical and conceptual frameworks across different levels of education systems, from pre-school to higher education, the contributors examine not just the barriers but...
-
We experimentally compare two modes of in-service professional development for South African public primary school teachers. In both programs teachers received the same learning material and daily lesson plans, aligned to the official literacy curriculum. Pupils exposed to two years of the program improved their reading proficiency by 0.12 standard deviations if their teachers received centralized Training, compared to 0.24 if their teachers received in-class Coaching. Classroom observations...
-
Developing sustainable and scalable educational initiatives is a key challenge in low-income countries where donor-funded short-term projects are limited by both contextual factors and programme design. In this commentary we examine some of the issues related to in-service teacher development in the context of sub-Saharan Africa, grounded predominantly in our work of over five years of iteratively developing, refining and evaluating an intensive school-based professional learning programme...
-
Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution and against which use of OER might be evaluated. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education. The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year...
-
In a highly unequal society such as South Africa, higher education is seen as having a social justice mandate to widen participation, and using technology is one way to achieve this. One university in South Africa made mobile devices compulsory for all first-year students since 2014. This article, drawing on data collected from first-year Humanities students at this university, attempts to understand whether the use of mobile devices for learning met requirements for a socially just...
-
Structured learning programmes have emerged as a promising way to address the low learning levels observed in many developing countries. The delivery model of these programmes matters, and on-site teacher coaching has been recommended to be highly effective, especially in early grade literacy. In this paper, we report on a series of government-led randomised experiments in South African primary schools that build on each other to test various models of teacher training and coaching. We find...
-
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub...
-
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub...
-
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by Network Hub...
-
The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project was a four-year (2013–2017), large-scale networked project which set out to contribute a Global South research perspective on how open educational resources can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. The project engaged a total of 103 researchers in 18 sub-projects across 21 countries from South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia, coordinated by central Network...
Explore
Our programmes
Organisations, collaborators and clients
Theme
Location
-
Africa
(27)
-
Eastern Africa
(21)
- Burundi (3)
- Comoros (2)
- Djibouti (2)
- Eritrea (4)
- Ethiopia (8)
- Kenya (16)
- Madagascar (3)
- Mauritius (3)
- Rwanda (9)
- Seychelles (4)
- Somalia (4)
- Somaliland (1)
- South Sudan (2)
- Tanzania (13)
- Uganda (15)
- Zambia (14)
- Zimbabwe (9)
-
Middle Africa
(9)
- Angola (2)
- Cameroon (5)
- Central African Republic (3)
- Chad (3)
- Congo, Democratic Republic (2)
- Equatorial Guinea (1)
- Gabon (2)
- Niger (5)
- São Tomé and Príncipe (2)
- Northern Africa (8)
-
Southern Africa
(27)
- Botswana (9)
- eSwatini (6)
- Lesotho (7)
- Malawi (11)
- Mozambique (6)
- Namibia (10)
- South Africa (27)
-
Western Africa
(16)
- Benin (3)
- Burkina Faso (3)
- Cape Verde (1)
- Gambia (3)
- Ghana (14)
- Guinea (4)
- Ivory Coast (1)
- Liberia (4)
- Mali (3)
- Mauritania (2)
- Nigeria (13)
- Senegal (5)
- Sierra Leone (7)
- Togo (3)
-
Eastern Africa
(21)
-
Americas
(21)
-
Caribbean
(7)
- Antigua and Barbuda (2)
- Bahamas (1)
- Barbados (2)
- Cuba (4)
- Dominica (3)
- Dominican Republic (4)
- Grenada (2)
- Haiti (2)
- Jamaica (4)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis (2)
- Saint Lucia (2)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2)
- Trinidad and Tobago (4)
-
Central America
(10)
- Belize (3)
- Costa Rica (2)
- El Salvador (2)
- Guatemala (2)
- Honduras (4)
- Mexico (7)
- Nicaragua (1)
- Panama (3)
-
Northern America
(20)
- Canada (9)
- United States (20)
- South America (9)
-
Caribbean
(7)
-
Asia
(19)
-
Central Asia
(1)
- Kazakhstan (1)
- Kyrgyzstan (1)
- Tajikistan (1)
- Turkmenistan (1)
- Uzbekistan (1)
-
Eastern Asia
(13)
- China (12)
- Japan (9)
- Korea, Democratic People's Republic (1)
- Korea, Republic (3)
- Mongolia (3)
-
South-eastern Asia
(16)
- Brunei Darussalam (2)
- Cambodia (8)
- Indonesia (6)
- Laos (2)
- Malaysia (10)
- Myanmar (2)
- Philippines (3)
- Singapore (11)
- Thailand (8)
- Timor-L'este (2)
- Viet Nam (9)
-
Southern Asia
(16)
- Afghanistan (5)
- Bangladesh (11)
- Bhutan (4)
- India (13)
- Iran (6)
- Maldives (3)
- Nepal (9)
- Pakistan (12)
- Sri Lanka (7)
- Tibet (1)
-
Western Asia
(14)
- Armenia (1)
- Azerbaijan (1)
- Bahrain (2)
- Cyprus (4)
- Georgia (2)
- Iraq (3)
- Israel (5)
- Jordan (5)
- Kuwait (2)
- Lebanon (5)
- Oman (5)
- Qatar (2)
- Saudi Arabia (3)
- State of Palestine (4)
- Syrian Arab Republic (4)
- Turkey (12)
- United Arab Emirates (2)
- Yemen (3)
-
Central Asia
(1)
-
Europe
(19)
-
Eastern Europe
(8)
- Belarus (2)
- Bulgaria (2)
- Czech Republic (4)
- Hungary (2)
- Poland (4)
- Republic of Moldova (2)
- Romania (2)
- Russian Federation (6)
- Slovakia (3)
- Ukraine (2)
- Northern Europe (17)
-
Southern Europe
(14)
- Albania (2)
- Andorra (1)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
- Croatia (3)
- Greece (6)
- Italy (6)
- Kosovo (2)
- Malta (3)
- Montenegro (2)
- North Macedonia (3)
- Portugal (4)
- San Marino (1)
- Serbia (2)
- Slovenia (3)
- Spain (8)
-
Western Europe
(11)
- Austria (2)
- Belgium (5)
- France (8)
- Germany (7)
- Luxembourg (1)
- Monaco (1)
- Netherlands (6)
- Switzerland (4)
-
Eastern Europe
(8)
-
Oceania
(15)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(15)
- Australia (14)
- New Zealand (10)
-
Melanesia
(6)
- Fiji (3)
- Papua New Guinea (5)
- Solomon Islands (2)
- Vanuatu (3)
-
Micronesia
(3)
- Federated States of Micronesia (1)
- Kiribati (3)
- Marshall Islands (1)
- Nauru (1)
- Palau (1)
- Polynesia (4)
-
Australia and New Zealand
(15)