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Abstract

Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasing cost and concern about the sustainability of education.

The Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project seeks to build on and contribute to the body of research on how OER can help to improve access, enhance quality and reduce the cost of education in the Global South. This volume examines aspects of educator and student adoption of OER and engagement in Open Educational Practices (OEP) in secondary and tertiary education as well as teacher professional development in 21 countries in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and South and Southeast Asia. The ROER4D studies and syntheses presented here aim to help inform Open Education advocacy, policy, practice and research in developing countries.

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ISBN (Print): 978-1-928331-48-3

ISBN (Electronic): 978-1-55250-599-1

Publication date (Print): 12 December 2017

Publication date (Electronic): 15 December 2017

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Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2794-8638

Patricia Arinto https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0262-9561

DOI: 10.47622/9781928331483

SO-VID: 4eb5b1ec-03f1-4805-b66b-324251396cd6

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Published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International ( CC BY 4.0). Users are allowed to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), as long as the authors and the publisher are explicitly identified and properly acknowledged as the original source.

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IDRC

Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

Keywords: Education

Data availability: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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