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= Introduction=
'''''"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."
John Dewey


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[[Image:CCElogo.jpg|link=CCE|150px|The Centre for Commonwealth Education|thumb]]
[[Image:CCElogo.jpg|link=CCE|150px|The Centre for Commonwealth Education|thumb]]
[[Image:CETlogo.png|link=http://www.commonwealtheducationtrust.org/|150px|The Commonwealth Education Trust|thumb]]
[[Image:CETlogo.png|link=http://www.commonwealtheducationtrust.org/|150px|The Commonwealth Education Trust|thumb]]
This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the [[CCE|Centre for Commonwealth Education]]. For more information about this project, visit [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/oer4schools/ the OER4Schools project page]. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see [[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview]]. If you are planning to use this resource, then do contact us to see whether we can collaborate in some way.
This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the [[CCE|Centre for Commonwealth Education]]. For more information about this project, visit [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/oer4schools/ the OER4Schools project page]. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see [[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview]]. If you are planning to use this resource, then do contact us to see whether we can collaborate in some way.  


The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy/ Sara Hennessy], [http://www.bjohas.de Bjoern Hassler], Nitu Duggal, Wei Shin Leong, and Janet Blair of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo of Chalimbana Basic School (Chalimbana, Zambia). Other contributors to specific pages are acknowledged there. A number of aspects of the OER4Schools programme at Chalimbana Basic School have been supported by http://www.aptivate.org.
The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy/ Sara Hennessy], [http://www.bjohas.de Bjoern Hassler], Nitu Duggal, Wei Shin Leong, and Janet Blair of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo of Chalimbana Basic School (Chalimbana, Zambia). Other contributors to specific pages are acknowledged there. A number of aspects of the OER4Schools programme at Chalimbana Basic School have been supported by http://www.aptivate.org.
= The OER4Schools community =
OER4Schools started in Zambia in 2009/2010, and since then has expanded into a number of different countries, including Kenya, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone.
<gallery> 
File:Flag_of_Zambia.svg | Zambia
File:Flag_of_Kenya.svg | Kenya
File:Flag of Rwanda.svg | Rwanda
File:Flag of Sierra Leone.svg | Sierra Leone
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The OER4Schools is an open programme, and we invite you to participate, and adapt the resource, which can be done right here on our collaborative site. You can have a look at a number of different adaptations [[OER4Schools/versions|adaptations here]]. To find out more, join our [https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/ facebook group].
= Overview of the resource =
Through our research in Zambia we developed a practical professional development (PD) programme for school-based
teacher education, supporting teachers to embed interactive
methods of teaching and learning into classroom practice through
the exploitation of mobile technologies. It moves beyond technology and skills-focused initiatives
by highlighting the crucial role of teacher support in promoting innovation and experimentation
with teaching styles. Our overall goal is to focus on learning, meeting the challenge of moving
away from superficial repetition of facts towards deeper learning and understanding. We aim to
develop teachers’ capability to use tablets, netbooks, e-book readers, Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Source software effectively to support students’ learning in
mathematics and science through active participation, dialogue and collaborative enquiry. Our
participatory approach especially values the ‘voices’ of everybody involved. The research is
founded on principles of effective pedagogy in teacher education and classroom teaching in sub-Saharan Africa. The professional learning programme is suitable for low-resourced primary
schools and colleges (combined with teaching practice), and freely available as an OER. The
resource consists of 28 two-hour sessions, organised in five units, covering interactive teaching
principles, group work, questioning, dialogue, Assessment for Learning, and enquiry-based
learning. Each session is clearly structured and includes unique, professionally filmed video
exemplars of interactive practices in Zambian and South African classrooms, accompanying texts
co-authored with teachers, and facilitator notes. It builds on an established, sustained teacher-led
process for sharing and trialling new practices and digital resources; peer observation; discussion                                                                                                   
and joint reflection.


= Units in the professional learning resource =
= Units in the professional learning resource =
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You can also join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/
You can also join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/
= A quick overview =
The video below gives an overview of what the resource has to offer and how it has been used and developed:
{{: Video/Africa Colloquium March 2014 }}
{{: Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v }}
This video covers both the iSchool initiative and OER4Schools:
{{: Video/Zambia2014 }}
= How to get the resource =
The best way to access the resource is through this website (http://www.oer4schools.org), which always has the latest version.
However being able access the resource offline is extremely important for many of our users. A set of PDFs is available:
* {{File|OER4Schools_Facilitator_book.pdf}}
* {{File|OER4Schools_Participants_book.pdf}}
* {{File|OER4Schools_additional_pdfs_for_sessions.pdf}}
These are only updated occasionally, but are checked before updating. Alternatively, PDF files generated nightly by our experimental PDF generation
process are available [http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/download/pdf here].
Experimental ZIM files of the wiki are available  [http://oer.educ.cam.ac.uk/download/ here] (without video, about 300MB). A ZIM file containing all the videos from our YouTube account is here: [http://download.kiwix.org/zim/other/oer4schools_en_all_2015-03.zim oer4schools_en_all_2015-03.zim] (2.2GB).
The videos are also available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/oer4schools (see [https://www.youtube.com/user/OER4Schools/playlists playlists]). They can also be obtained in bulk, please contact us.
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