Open Educational Resource Term Bank - Case studies on African OER initiatives in

The team also designed the database, the management system, and the user interface. [...] In the third phase (2016), the team identified possible gaps in the OERTB and the team continued with their work from the second phase.7 In the second and third phases, a core activity of the initiative was to extract key terms in specific disciplines and translate them. [...] The project manager at UCT also used the term bank in his workshops.10 In addition, one of the main strengths of the initiative was the enthusiasm from many of the academics who wrote the definitions and terms. [...] The SMEs showed great enthusiasm and support for the project, with the term bank manager noting that they ‘grasped the necessity to help students in their mother tongue’.11 The project team also gave potential collaborators different options under which they could license their work and made provision to give them credit next to each entry they provided for the initiative. [...] If the OERTB team and SADiLaR reach an agreement, the link to the OERTB will be provided on the SADiLaR website.