African Health OER Network: Towards a Sustainable Inter-Institutional Collaborative Framework for Open Educational Resources

Despite the potential benefits of a collaborative approach to OER production, sharing and distribution, little research has been directed to it. Furthermore, collaboration is not a panacea to the complex OER agenda, which is not limited to intellectual property rights, cost implications and academic concerns often evidenced through resistance to giving away educational resources for free. In this book chapter, through examining the development of the Health OER Network, we focus on exploring how sustainable inter-institutional collaboration can facilitate OER production and sharing.

Publication: PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice. 

Institutions: University of Cape Town, University of Michigan

Authors: Dick Ng'ambi, Airong Luo