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084 |a EJ861321 
100 1 |a Thakrar, Jayshree 
245 1 |a Harnessing Open Educational Resources to the Challenges of Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa 
260 |b Athabasca University  |c Sep 2009 
513 |a Article Report 
520 3 |a The challenges to teacher educators in sub-Saharan Africa are acute. This paper describes how the Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) consortium is working within institutional and national policy systems to support school-based teacher professional development. The TESSA consortium (13 African institutions and 5 international organisations delivering teacher education across 9 countries) designed and produced a bank of open educational resources (OERs) to guide teachers' classroom practices in school-based teacher education. Drawing on examples from the TESSA consortium and from the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, the authors categorize the forms of TESSA OER integration as highly structured, loosely structured, or guided use. The paper concludes by outlining success factors for the integration of OERs: accessibility, adequate resources, support for teachers, accommodation of local cultural and institutional practices, and sustainable funding. (Contains 1 table and 2 footnotes.) 
651 4 |a Ghana 
651 4 |a Kenya 
651 4 |a Nigeria 
651 4 |a Rwanda 
651 4 |a South Africa 
651 4 |a Sudan 
651 4 |a Tanzania 
651 4 |a Uganda 
651 4 |a Zambia 
653 |a Educational Change 
653 |a Foreign Countries 
653 |a Consortia 
653 |a Educational Resources 
653 |a Professional Development 
653 |a Elementary School Teachers 
653 |a Units of Study 
653 |a Open Universities 
653 |a Educational Cooperation 
653 |a Developing Nations 
653 |a Barriers 
653 |a Access to Education 
653 |a Educational Environment 
653 |a Educational Development 
653 |a Economically Disadvantaged 
653 |a International Education 
653 |a International Organizations 
653 |a Educational Policy 
653 |a Policy Analysis 
653 |a Inservice Teacher Education 
653 |a Rural Areas 
653 |a Program Effectiveness 
653 |a Program Implementation 
653 |a Instructional Effectiveness 
653 |a Higher Education 
653 |a Web Based Instruction 
653 |a Electronic Learning 
653 |a Instructional Design 
653 |a Educational Technology 
653 |a Computer Assisted Instruction 
653 |a Technology Integration 
653 |a Computer Mediated Communication 
653 |a Distance Education 
653 |a Access to Computers 
653 |a Web Sites 
653 |a Program Descriptions 
700 1 |a Zinn, Denise 
700 1 |a Wolfenden, Freda 
773 0 |t International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning  |g vol. 10, no. 4 (Sep 2009), p. 1-15 
786 0 |d ProQuest  |t ERIC 
856 4 1 |3 Citation/Abstract  |u https://www.proquest.com/docview/61840904/abstract/embedded/7BTGNMKEMPT1V9Z2?source=fedsrch 
856 4 0 |3 Full text outside of ProQuest  |u http://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ861321