Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG

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dc.contributor.authorRaju, Reggie
dc.date2017-08-19
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-17T13:42:50Z
dc.date.available2017-07-17T13:42:50Z
dc.date.issued2017-07-17
dc.description.abstractThe high levels of poverty and poor access to quality education, among a myriad of other challenges, have contributed to economic and social exclusion in Africa. These exclusions must be viewed against the backdrop of the emergence of a global knowledge-based society in which the production and dissemination of knowledge has become critical for meeting social and economic needs. Education, in the view of Breidlid (2009), is critical for poverty alleviation and economic and social inclusion. Education is central to promoting sustainable development. It is therefore essential to mobilize necessary resources, including openness resources to steer the global south towards economic and social inclusion. This paper will discuss the exploration of a ‘knowledge system’ that facilitates the networking of open educational resources (OERs) to strengthen the educational system in Africa. The bringing together of contributors who use appropriate technology for innovation will enhance the educational process which will in turn advance learning for growth and development. Key to the effective contribution of knowledge systems to SDGs is information and communication technologies (ICTs). Libraries have responded positively to the potential of ICTs and have recently been utilising that potential to offer publishing services using Open Source Systems (OSS) such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), DSpace, and the Open Monograph Press (OMP). These open source systems, which are a significant component of the openness movement, are exploited to deliver open content which includes open access publishing and sharing of scholarly content. The bias in this paper is the publishing of open educational resources for the development of education in the global south. An educated and informed society will contribute to the broadening of access to wealth for social justice, growth and development.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationNyahodza, L., & Raju, R. (2017). <i>Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG</i>. Wrocław Poland, IFLA. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24757en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationNyahodza, Lena, and Reggie Raju. "Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG." 2017-08-19, Wrocław Poland. IFLA. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24757.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationNyahodza, L. and Raju, R. 2017. Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG. Proceedings of 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assembly. 19–25 August 2017. Wrocław, Poland. Available: http://library.ifla.org/1674/1/220-nyahodza-en.pdf [2017, July 17].en_ZA
dc.identifier.risTY - Conference Paper AU - Nyahodza, Lena AU - Raju, Reggie AB - The high levels of poverty and poor access to quality education, among a myriad of other challenges, have contributed to economic and social exclusion in Africa. These exclusions must be viewed against the backdrop of the emergence of a global knowledge-based society in which the production and dissemination of knowledge has become critical for meeting social and economic needs. Education, in the view of Breidlid (2009), is critical for poverty alleviation and economic and social inclusion. Education is central to promoting sustainable development. It is therefore essential to mobilize necessary resources, including openness resources to steer the global south towards economic and social inclusion. This paper will discuss the exploration of a ‘knowledge system’ that facilitates the networking of open educational resources (OERs) to strengthen the educational system in Africa. The bringing together of contributors who use appropriate technology for innovation will enhance the educational process which will in turn advance learning for growth and development. Key to the effective contribution of knowledge systems to SDGs is information and communication technologies (ICTs). Libraries have responded positively to the potential of ICTs and have recently been utilising that potential to offer publishing services using Open Source Systems (OSS) such as Open Journal Systems (OJS), DSpace, and the Open Monograph Press (OMP). These open source systems, which are a significant component of the openness movement, are exploited to deliver open content which includes open access publishing and sharing of scholarly content. The bias in this paper is the publishing of open educational resources for the development of education in the global south. An educated and informed society will contribute to the broadening of access to wealth for social justice, growth and development. CY - Wrocław Poland DA - 2017-07-17 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PP - Wrocław Poland PY - 2017 T1 - Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG TI - Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24757 ER -en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/24757
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationNyahodza L, Raju R, Open Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDG. ; 2017-08-19; Wrocław Poland. IFLA; 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24757 .en_ZA
dc.languageengen_ZA
dc.publisherIFLAen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentUniversity of Cape Town Librariesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.publisher.locationWrocław Polanden_ZA
dc.relation.ispartofseriesIFLA World Library and Information Congress 83rd IFLA General Conference and Assemblyen_ZA
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_ZA
dc.subject.othersustainable development
dc.subject.otherSDG
dc.subject.otheropen educational resources
dc.subject.otherquality education
dc.subject.otheropen source systems
dc.subject.otherknowledge systems
dc.titleOpen Educational Resources within a Knowledge System for Achieving Quality Education SDGen_ZA
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