Supporting professional development of higher education professionals
About OER Africa
We believe Open Educational Resources bring quality learning to all.
OER Africa’s mission is to improve African universities' abilities to use Open Educational Resources effectively, to support quality teaching and learning.
Founded in 2008 with support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, OER Africa is dedicated to fostering collaboration aimed at enhancing the professional competencies and skills of stakeholders within African higher education institutions. This work empowers them to implement OER practices that elevate the quality of teaching and learning
What we do
We empower higher education professionals
OER Africa builds active networks of African OER practitioners by connecting educators, academics, librarians, trainers, and policy-makers to create, share, and adapt OER that address the educational needs of African societies.
Through in-person and online collaboration, OER Africa helps higher education professionals educators and learners in Africa use OER to grow their skills and become active members of global OER networks, showcasing Africa’s intellectual contributions rather than relying on knowledge created elsewhere.
We are currently
Developing and testing effective models of continuous professional development for supporting OER practices in higher education institutions, including delivering CPD frameworks for academics
Collaborating with African universities to foster policy and institutional environments that support effective, continuous professional development implementation
Developing an online collection of continuous professional development OER in higher education, such as the South African Advanced Diploma in Technical and Vocational Teaching, with the University of the Free State
Establishing a continuous professional development network to share lessons learned
We've achieved a lot
Since inception in 2008, we’ve been able to support change in many ways, including:
In 2025 downloads increased steadily from May to September rising from
13k+ to 24k+
4000+
In 2025, our average monthly number of website visitors
Since 2019 we have had
675,000
