Teaching Teachers: The Biggest Educational Challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Author(s): Bob Moon (The Open University, UK)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 12
Source title: Transnational Distance Learning and Building New Markets for Universities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert Hogan (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0206-9.ch012

Keywords: Distance Education / Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference

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Existing institutionally based systems for educating and training teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa have not kept up with present demand, nor can they hope to meet future needs. The reasons are simple: insufficient numbers of trained teachers and inadequate educational resources. Meeting these needs is not an option; education is the cornerstone for social and economic sustainability. Failure to educate more of a nation’s population does not maintain the status quo. In today’s world of technology, “uneducated” is synonymous with lower economic and social opportunities. The educational needs cannot be met in Sub-Saharan Africa by building more physical classrooms and dormitories, a reality that is facing emerging and developed countries alike. This chapter discusses the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and how they can be a partial solution to the needs of developing countries.

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