Enhancing Education Through Open Courseware

Authors

  • Gbadebo Akeem Postgraduate Student, Babcock University, Nigeria
  • Oludele Awodele Head of Department, Computer Science, Babcock University, Nigeria
  • Oladipo Sunday Senior Administrative Officer, Office of the Registrar, Babcock University, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/ssh.v1i1.928

Keywords:

Open Courseware, Transformational education, Knowledge Society

Abstract

Education for all is a lofty target. The need for quality, affordable, accessible and transformational education is copious. The Open Courseware movement is providing necessary leverage and opportunities that a life time savings will not afford many all over the world. The rising aspiration for higher education with postulated at 160 million by 2025 presents the conventional classroom-based approaches to teaching and learning a huge challenge of not being capable of meeting the escalating demand for higher education in the knowledge society. This paper examines the opportunities, benefits and its challenges in the Open Courseware Movement to individuals and institutions of learning. The paper is a desk based research as it relied on the internet and relevant texts including books, journals and observable trends in the open courseware movement. The paper recommends that African schools should leverage on the vast knowledge provided by Open Courseware, that the drive to always re-invent the wheel should be replaced with a drive to improve upon available materials for education and that African institutions should not only be a consumer of foreign materials but provide open courseware for the world from her institutions.

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Published

2015-01-31

How to Cite

Akeem, G., Awodele, O., & Sunday, O. (2015). Enhancing Education Through Open Courseware. International Journal For Research In Social Science And Humanities, 1(1), 63–64. https://doi.org/10.53555/ssh.v1i1.928

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2015): International Journal For Research In Social Science And Humanities | ISSN: 2208-2697

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