Exploring cases that highlight successes with Open Educational

Within this context, OER Africa coordinated a project for the Network of Open Orgs.1 The project involved a collaborative effort among several members of the Network to develop a set of seven case study summaries that collectively explored the success of OER and highlighted the implications of these initiatives for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for OER practices. [...] Indirectly, TESS-India also addresses the need and activities of the (India) Government of India to significantly increase the number of qualified and trained teachers (in pre- and in-service teacher education) at India's elementary and secondary education levels. [...] The purpose of this work was to move beyond the rhetoric of the OER community to determine what effect the OER movement has had in Harnessing OER Practices to Drive educational systems and how sustainable this has been. [...] First, The availability of OER was raised as a the need to advocate for adoption and second, the need to align OER • LiDA challenge, which was primarily related to provision with demand. [...] Though the examples are quite diverse, they demonstrate the value in casting the net wide when it comes • African Storybook to finding implementation partners for OER initiatives, which has the dual • OER Degrees goal of assisting implementation and advocating for the use of OER in different spheres of influence.