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Project Description

Background

South Africa faces challenges in providing equitable access to high-quality Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education at higher education level.

Aims

The overall scope of the project is to foster collaboration between South African and European HEIs to enable the exchange and transfer of expertise, best practices and know-how in integrating self-directed open educational practices (OEPs) and open educational resources (OERs) into STEM teacher education.

The specific objectives of the project are:

  • Enhance the skills, knowledge and capacities of lecturers and teacher-students in STEM education in South African Higher Education, on making full, aware and effective use of Self-Directed Learning (SDL) based methods, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in their educational offer and teaching approaches.
  • Establish a sustainable environment for the sharing, adaptation and creation of self-directed teaching resources OER and OEP based for STEM teacher-students and lecturers in STEM fields.
  • Provide a set of methodological and practical steps for Higher Education Institutions and policy makers to promote the adoption of self-directed based OEPs (Open Educational Practices) and OERs (Open Educational Resources) tailored for the South African context

Target Groups

The project is addressed to university lecturers, pre-service and in-service STEM education teachers.

Activities

In order to pursue the objectives, the project through a capacity building process involving South African and European HEIs will achieve the following results:

  • South African pre-service and in-service STEM education teacher-students and STEM education lecturers acquiring the skills to apply Self-Directed Learning based methods, integrating Open Educational Resources and establishing Open Educational Practices.
  • Online course on how to on make full use of Self-Directed Learning based methods, integrating Open Educational Resources and establishing Open Educational Practices
  • Online Database of at least 140 validated self-directed teaching resources OER and OEP based.
  • Guidelines and Policy Recommendations for integrating OERs and self-directed OEPs into STEM education for educational authorities tailored for the South African

Ted-SOEP

Fostering collaboration between South African and European into STEM teacher education.

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