OER Africa & University of Pretoria

OER in Veterinary Education: AfriVIP

Context• Department of Tropical

Diseases : Onderstepoort.• Initial desire to incorporate e-

learning into modes of delivery.• Large amount of quality teaching

recourses including digital resources such as video.• Focus on CPD, undergraduate

and post graduate studies.• Worked closely with OER Africa

to develop a strategy.

Value Proposition• Release high quality veterinary resources with

open license, partly to highlight the excellent work being done at UP Onderstepoort, but also to improve access to information in this field across Africa.• Organise these resources so that they can be

used by vets to collect professional development points from SA Vet Council.• Same materials to be used as content

elements within Graduate and Post Graduate courses run as online courses from Onderstepoort.

Value Proposition II• Creation and use of these resources to act as

a catalyst to encourage staff and students at UP to embrace ICT and digital open content as essential tools in the teaching and learning process. Future programmes and courses to be run from an online Faculty teaching/learning portal.• Use the ‘hub’ of open content to act as a

gathering and sharing space. Develop collaborative relationships with like minded veterinary councils across Africa and globally to use and expand the content.

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AfriVIPAfrican Veterinary Information Portal

http://preview2.bluematrix.co.za/

http://preview2.bluematrix.co.za/education/audiovisualteaching/africanbuffalo/2013

Partnerships• World Animal Health Organisation - OIE • Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp• Afrivet Academy-------- Tentative:• Dept. Veterinary Services (Kenya) – DVS• Deans and Registrars from African countries is being

brokered.

Success factorsBit early to count successes but progress does look good:• Project leader, Prof Koos Coetzer, is

committed to the vision and continues to drives process forward, stickler for quality and willing to challenge resistance to change within the institution. • Launch of AfriVIP on schedule for end of June• Numerous requests for partnership• SAVA is working on allocating CPD points to

parts of the content.