The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource

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Introduction

This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. For more information about this project, visit the OER4Schools project page. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see Overview.

     


The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by Sara Hennessy, 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.

Units in the professional learning resource

Overview of the resource:

See the detailed outline for more information.

The contents of these units will be added throughout 2012. The content is developed collaboratively between our facilitators Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo at Chalimbana Basic School and our team at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. We currently only have English language versions. However, you can use Google Translate to view French, Portuguese, Swahili and other language versions.

Lesson and activity templates

Classroom activities


Further resources

There are a number of key texts, often given in references in the OER4Schools units. These include:

  • Alexander, R. (ed) (2010), Children, Their World, Their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. London: Routledge.
  • Maddock, M., Peacock, A., Hart, S. & Drummond, M.-J. (2012). Creating Learning Without Limits. Maidenhead: Open University Press.
  • index for inclusion, http://www.csie.org.uk/

Taster sessions

Videos

Many of the videos used in our resource are also available from our YouTube site, http://www.youtube.com/user/OER4Schools.

VIDEO

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School

Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v, https://oer.opendeved.net/wiki/Video/Introduction_to_Chalimbana_Basic_School.m4v,This video is available on your memory stick in the video/Talks folder.About this video. Duration: 1:57 (watch on YouTube, local play / download options / download from dropbox)(Series: Talks, episode 03)

Conference presentations

Alternative page versions

All-in-one pdf

  • You can get a full pdf of all units so far here: ORBIT:Books/OER4Schools Note that some of the formatting isn't perfect just yet!!