Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Acknowledgements; About the editors; Foreword by Tel Amiel, UNESCO Chair in Open Education; Foreword by Matthew Smith, IDRC SECTION 1: OVERVIEW; Chapter 1: Research on Open Educational Resources for Development in the Global South: Project landscape; Chapter 2: Factors influencing Open Educational Practices and OER in the Global South: Meta-synthesis of the ROER4D project; Chapter 3: OER use in the Global South: A baseline survey of higher education instructors; SECTION 2: SOUTH AMERICA; Chapter 4: Open Access and OER in Latin America: A survey of the policy landscape in Chile, Colombia and Uruguay; Chapter 5: Co-creation of OER by teachers and teacher educators in Colombia; Chapter 6: Effectiveness of OER use in first-year higher education students’ mathematical course performance: A case study; SECTION 3: SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; Chapter 7: Tracking the money for Open Educational Resources in South African basic education: What we don’t know; Chapter 8: Teacher educators and OER in East Africa: Interrogating pedagogic change; Chapter 9: Factors shaping lecturers’ adoption of OER at three South African universities; Chapter 10: OER in and as MOOCs; SECTION 4: SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA; Chapter 11: Cultural–historical factors influencing OER adoption in Mongolia’s higher education sector; Chapter 12: Higher education faculty attitude, motivation and perception of quality and barriers towards OER in India; Chapter 13: Impact of integrating OER in teacher education at the Open University of Sri Lanka; Chapter 14: Teacher professional learning communities: A collaborative OER adoption approach in Karnataka, India; Chapter 15: An early stage impact study of localised OER in Afghanistan; SECTION 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS; Chapter 16: OER and OEP in the Global South: Implications and recommendations for social inclusion.