Hands-on training sessions and practical capacity building activities for teacher educators
A regional workshop to advance Open Educational Resources (OER) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for schools of education across the Southern Africa was held from 20-22 April 2026 in Johannesburg, South Africa. …
At the #pcf11bw in Gaborone, educators and education leaders from nine countries came together for a pre-conference workshop on openness in teacher education. This meeting was instrumental in advancing collaboration under COL’s Network for Open Teacher Education …
The most recent workshop took place at the Federal College of Education (Technical), Gusau, under the theme of capacity building. It focused on equipping educators with concrete skills in sourcing, evaluating, adapting, and licensing OER. The workshop should have happened by the end of June but …
Hosted by the University of Rwanda's College of Education, the Kigali workshop brought teacher educators together for a three-day co-creation workshop. Multi-country teams collaboratively designed and adapted 5 OER modules suitable for their diverse educational contexts, with facilitation from both on-site and virtual experts. …
Following the webinar, a regional workshop was convened at the Wits School of Education, with representatives from the four countries. The focus was on examining the OER policy landscape, aligning pedagogical approaches, and strengthening institutional readiness. The findings from the case study report on "Prospects for …
The NOTES initiative officially launched with a virtual webinar entitled "Empowering African Teachers through Open Educational Resources: Strategies for Implementation", co-hosted by COL and five teacher education institutions in Botswana, Nigeria, Rwanda, and South Africa, led by the Wits School of Education. The event brought together …
The Network for Open Teacher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa (NOTES)
