Kenya national symposium on open education/About the Symposium
On Friday 22 June 2012, the UNESCO World Open Educational Resources (OER) Congress released the 2012 Paris OER Declaration which calls on Governments to openly license publicly funded educational materials. The Kenya National Symposium on OER will bring together educational leaders and policy makers to consider the strategic opportunities for OER in the region and to explore policy enablers and practices for harnessing the potential of open education approaches for the benefit of the formal education sector in Kenya and the region. The symposium will commence work on “proposals for action” building on existing OER foundations to progress the way forward for a sector-wide response to open education in Kenya and the region.
| Where: | Hilton Nairobi, Mama Ngina Street, Nairobi. |
| When: | 6 & 7 June 2013 |
| Time: | Registration: 8.30am Programme: 9am - 5.00pm |
| Who: | Educational leaders from the formal sector, policy makers, international governmental organisations and open education agencies. |
| Tag: | #KEOpenEd |
| What to bring: | Vision for the future, pen, notebook and/or mobile computing device (optional). |
Facilitators and presenters
Canada
India
Kenya
Namibia
New Zealand
South Africa
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Asha Kanwar is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Commonwealth of Learning and is a world leading advocate for learning for development. Former Pro-Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, Professor Kanwar's career includes over 30 years of experience in teaching, research and administration in open distance learning and work with international governmental agencies including both UNESCO's Regional Office for Education in Africa (BREDA) in Dakar, Senegal and the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver since 2003. |
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Frances Ferreira, a Namibian national is Education Specialist for Open Schooling at the Commonwealth of Learning. Frances was instrumental in leading an international project across six countries developing OERs for open schools. Trained as a teacher by profession, Frances was the first Director and chief executive of the state-owned Namibian College of Open Learning. She also became the first female Mayor of Grootfontein in 1994 and, in 1995, and was elected as Vice-President of the Association of Local Authorities in Namibia. She has also served as Chair of the Namibian Open Learning Network Trust and Chair of the Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA). |
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Wayne Mackintosh is the founding director of the OER Foundation and holds the Commonwealth of Learning Chair in OER at Otago Polytechnic. He is coordinating the establishment of the OER university, an international innovation partnership of accredited universities, colleges and polytechnics which aims to provide free learning opportunities for all students worldwide using OER courses with pathways for these learners to achieve credible credentials. |
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Catherine Ngugi is Project Director at OER Africa, an innovative initiative established by the South African Institute for Distance Education (Saide) to play a leading role in driving the development and use of open education across all education sectors on the African continent. Catherine established the AVU Research & Innovation Facility (RIF) in January 2005 and managed it until September 2007. Catherine has worked in both the private and the public sector, in Anglophone and Francophone Africa, and brings to OER Africa her experience in project management and a high level of inter-personal skills. |
