The COL Open Schools Initiative launched an Open Educational Resources (OER) Project in 2012 to provide materials under the Creative Commons licence agreement to support independent study in 17 specially selected secondary school subjects. Funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation its aim is to broaden access to secondary education through the development of high quality Open Distance Learning (ODL) or self-study materials.
These specially selected OER subjects include:
- Commerce 11 (2.4 MB PDF)
- Coordinated Science 10 (Biology, Chemistry and Physics) (7 MB PDF)
- English 12 (1 MB PDF)
- English Second Language 10 (4.3 MB PDF)
- Entrepreneurship 10 (5.2 MB PDF)
- Food & Nutrition (7.8 MB PDF)
- Geography 10 (10.3 MB PDF)
- Geography 12 (17 MB PDF)
- Human Social Biology 12 (5 MB PDF)
- Life Science 10 (4.3 MB PDF)
- Life Skills (2.6 MB PDF)
- Mathematics 11 (7.2 MB PDF)
- Mathematics 12 (13.3 MB PDF)
- Physical Science 10 (5.8 MB PDF)
- Physical Science 12 (9.2 MB PDF)
- Principles of Business (4.4 MB PDF)
- Spanish (3.2 MB PDF)
Open Educational Resources are free to use and increase accessibility to education. These materials are accessible for use in six countries: Botswana, India, Lesotho, Namibia, Seychelles and Trinidad & Tobago. Other interested parties are invited to use the materials, but some contextual adaptation might be needed to maximise their benefits in different countries.
The OER for Open Schooling Teachers’ Guide has been developed to guide teachers/instructors on how to use the Open Educational Resources (OER) in five of these courses. The aim of this teachers’ guide is to help all teachers/instructors make best use of the OER materials. This guide is generic, but focuses on Namibian examples.
- English
- Entrepreneurship
- Geography
- Life Science
- Physical Science
Acknowledgements:
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- Namibian College of Open Learning (NAMCOL)
- National Institute of Educational Development (NIED)
- Ministry of Education of the Republic of Namibia (MoE)
- Ministry of Education, Seychelles
- Ministry of Education and Training, Lesotho
- Ministry of Education, Trinidad & Tobago
- National Open School of Trinidad & Tobago (NOSTT)
- Ministry of Education and Skills Development, Botswana
- Botswana Open University, formerly Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL)
- Ministry of Education, Zambia
