Open Saide

Making available Saide's Open Educational Resources, on-line professional development open courses, and software tools for the education market free to use, adapt, repurpose and share.

  • Intro
  • Resources
  • Open Courses
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Introduction

Saide works across all educational sectors, including early childhood development, community education, schooling, further education and training, teacher education and higher education. Within these sectors, Saide has three strands of work:

  1. Supporting and developing open learning principles for quality education.
  2. Supporting education practitioners in the sound use of innovative course design, materials development, learner support, management and the use of technology for large scale provision. 
  3. Building knowledge about sound and innovative methods of opening learning through research, the development of resources, and the dissemination of information.

Underpinning the creation of programmes, course and materials, Saide asks five key design questions:

  1. Where do we start?
  2. What do learners need to learn?
  3. How can we help learners learn?
  4. How will we know what learners have learned?
  5. How can we ensure good quality?

This approach is detailed in our Course Design and Materials Development Guide. Also, Saide's Learning Design with Technology framework, an important consideration for today's learners, is aligned to course design and materials development.

Open Saide includes open educational resources, open courses and open software that you can use, adapt or repurpose for your own situation. In addition, you can request Saide services, appropriate for each resource, to support your use, or futher development, of such resources.

Resources

Saide's Open Educational Resources can be arranged chronologically (Date) or alphabetically (Title). Identify resources associated with specific Services or Search Resources using keywords.

Title
Date

  • Agshare ToolkitBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,Quality Criteria and Systems,2014/06
  • Curriculum and materials development workshopAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,Quality Criteria and Systems,2014/06
  • Designing and delivering distance education: Quality criteria and case studies from South AfricaBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Evaluation and Research,Policy Development,Quality Criteria and Systems,2005/06
  • Distance higher education programmes in a digital era: Good practice guideBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Policy Development,Programme and Course Design,Quality Criteria and Systems,2011/06
  • External course evaluation instrumentAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Evaluation and Research,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,2014/06
  • Learning about sustainable change in education in South AfricaEvaluation and Research,Quality Criteria and Systems,2018/06
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) workshopBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Policy Development,Programme and Course Design,2016/06
  • Quality assurance toolkit for open schoolsBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Evaluation and Research,Quality Criteria and Systems,2010/06
  • Saide education studies: Being a teacherBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Open Education Resources,2010/08
  • Saide education studies: Creating people-centred schoolsBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,2010/06
  • Saide education studies: Learners and learning guideBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2010/11
  • Saide education studies: Using media in teachingAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,2010/06
  • Saide education studies: Working in classroomsBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,2010/06
  • Understanding OERBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Open Education Resources,2017/07

Open Courses

Online teaching and learning professional development courses developed by Saide are provided as a zip file that includes IMS Global Learning Consortium's Common Cartridge and Moodle's .mbz files. You can integrate these files into your LMS.

  • Classroom Libraries Orientation GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2023/02
  • Course BuilderAppropriate Use of Technology,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,
  • Introduction to Africa in the Global Political EconomyAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2021/10
  • KnowHow Early LearningAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2023/07
  • Open Saide Course Builder User GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2021/04
  • Quality Online Learning and TeachingAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2021/08
  • Saide Learning Design GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2021/08
  • SASOL ECDE StoryUsing GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2024/12
  • Storymaking South Africa Champion GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2022/02
  • Storymaking South Africa Facilitator GuideAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2021/10
  • The Golden Gate Highlands National Park - An IntroductionAppropriate Use of Technology,Build Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2025/05

Privacy

Privacy policy

It is the policy of Saide’s Open Saide to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website and mobile apps. This Privacy Policy applies to https://open.saide.ngo/ (hereinafter, "us", "we", or "https://open.saide.ngo/). We are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the website and mobile apps. We have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on our website and mobile apps, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the website and mobile apps and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy posted on our website and mobile apps, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our website and mobile apps. Depending on your activities when visiting our website and mobile apps, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Open Saide collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. African Storybook's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to understand better how Open Saide's visitors use its website. From time to time, Open Saide may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Open Saide also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on storybooks published on the Open Saide website. African Storybook only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Open Saide's website and mobile apps choose to interact with Open Saide in ways that require Open Saide to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Open Saide gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who register on https://open.saide.ngo/ to provide a username and email address.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Open Saide discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Open Saide's behalf or to provide services available at Open Saide's website and mobile apps, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using African Storybook's website and mobile apps, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Open Saide will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Open Saide discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Open Saide believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Open Saide, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of https://open.saide.ngo/ and have supplied your email address, Open Saide may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with Open Saide and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Open Saide takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Aggregated Statistics

Open Saide may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website and mobile apps. Open Saide may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Open Saide does not disclose your personally-identifying information.

Cookies

To enrich and perfect your online experience, Open Saide uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Open Saide uses cookies to help Open Saide identify and track visitors, their usage of https://open.saide.ngo/, and their website access preferences. Open Saide visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Open Saide's websites, with the drawback that certain features of Open Saide's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Open Saide's use of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Open Saide may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Open Saide's sole discretion. Open Saide encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

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If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email info@saide.org.za.

Contact

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