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
  • Software
  • 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.

Date
Title

  • Learning about sustainable change in education in South AfricaEvaluation and Research,Quality Criteria and Systems,2018/06
  • Understanding OERBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Open Education Resources,2017/07
  • Open Educational Resources (OER) workshopBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Open Education Resources,Policy Development,Programme and Course Design,2016/06
  • Agshare ToolkitBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,Quality Criteria and Systems,2014/06
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Saide education studies: Learners and learning guideBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Open Education Resources,Programme and Course Design,2010/11
  • 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: 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
  • Quality assurance toolkit for open schoolsBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Evaluation and Research,Quality Criteria and Systems,2010/06
  • 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

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.

  • Facilitating online learningBuild Capacity and Disseminate Knowledge,Materials Design and Development,Programme and Course Design,2014/01

Software

Software developed and supported by Saide is available under an open GPL license. In addition, Saide provides hosted environments of such resources that individauls and organisation can use, free of charge, as a software service. 

  • EON (Evaluation OnLine)Software as a Service (SaaS),2017/06
  • Saide conference servicesSoftware as a Service (SaaS),2017/06

Contact

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