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Radical Solutions for Education in AfricaOnline Access and Resources for Open Self-directed Learning in Africa

Radical Solutions for Education in Africa: Online Access and Resources for Open Self-directed... [Learning online has grown significantly in the African context, and hence access and the nature of resources in this area have become more important. This chapter explores the context of online access and resources on the continent as contextualisation for open education and self-directed learning in Africa. This conceptual chapter provides an overview of the relevant scholarship on the nature of online access and resources in this context. To this end, published statistics and research were critically analysed. Successful online access does not only imply formal access to resources, but also require epistemic, demiurgic as well as axiopistical access. Consequently, these issues are also regarded in terms of what is required from students to reach all these levels of access. Furthermore, this chapter considers resources in terms of it being either material or human within the self-directed learning context and this chapter also focuses on how this concept is viewed within open education. The chapter concludes with a discussion and overview of how online access and resources and its role in education should be viewed within the African context and in terms of the concept of ubuntu where communal aspects of learning are highlighted.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Radical Solutions for Education in AfricaOnline Access and Resources for Open Self-directed Learning in Africa

Part of the Lecture Notes in Educational Technology Book Series
Editors: Burgos, Daniel; Olivier, Jako
Olivier, Jako
Radical Solutions for Education in Africa — Aug 3, 2021
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Springer Singapore
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
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978-981-16-4098-8
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1 –16
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10.1007/978-981-16-4099-5_1
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Abstract

[Learning online has grown significantly in the African context, and hence access and the nature of resources in this area have become more important. This chapter explores the context of online access and resources on the continent as contextualisation for open education and self-directed learning in Africa. This conceptual chapter provides an overview of the relevant scholarship on the nature of online access and resources in this context. To this end, published statistics and research were critically analysed. Successful online access does not only imply formal access to resources, but also require epistemic, demiurgic as well as axiopistical access. Consequently, these issues are also regarded in terms of what is required from students to reach all these levels of access. Furthermore, this chapter considers resources in terms of it being either material or human within the self-directed learning context and this chapter also focuses on how this concept is viewed within open education. The chapter concludes with a discussion and overview of how online access and resources and its role in education should be viewed within the African context and in terms of the concept of ubuntu where communal aspects of learning are highlighted.]

Published: Aug 3, 2021

Keywords: Online access; Online resources; Open educational resources; Self-directed learning; Africa

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