From Qedoc

This page lists Qedoc's official partners with whom official agreements of various kinds exist, or where official agreements are at an advanced stage of negotiation and we have been asked to provide a listing.

Curriki

Website: Curriki

Information about Curriki: More information

Curriki aims to be a repository for open educational resources, with an online resource creation environment for the development and storage of teaching and learning materials.

MERLOT Africa Network - MAN

Website: Merlot Africa Network

The MERLOT AFRICA Network (MAN) is a Network of African higher education institutions affiliated with the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).The MAN organization works collaboratively with MERLOT partner institutions to conduct educational research that leads to best practices in the scholarship of teaching and learning using electronic resources. MAN also strives to enhance the usability and quality of the MERLOT e-learning repository for global access.

The ultimate goal of MAN is to promote the formation of cross-cultural collaborative network of scholars and higer education faculty. MAN will implement a comprehensive research program aiming to evaluate the feasibility and assessing the needs for successfully implementing the following sub-goals.

• Encourage the development and sharing of quality electronic learning resources.
• Develop and validate research instruments to assess the e-learning readiness of MAN institutions.
• Identify professional development needs for integrating modular instructional resources in instructional design and delivery.
• Build capacity to train instructors, faculty, and teachers in the effective use of e-learning resource repositories to develop online courses.
• Initiate International collaborations and linkages between MERLOT and MAN institutions.
• Leverage the availability of open source software (OSS) to facilitate course management and delivery.
• Disseminate research findings and best practices through publications, yearly presentations and forums at academic venues including MERLOT and elearning Africa International conferences.
• Disseminate methodology and findings through doctoral dissertations and master thesis chaired by faculty researchers of MAN and MERLOT.
• Enhancing the usability of the MERLOT repository to accommodate Multilanguage audience.

See also: Qedoc Africa Project