Description of a project to establish an African Teacher Education OER Network funded by the Hewlett Foundation

2. Working with a number of institutions

3. Some in common

4. Connecting with other networks

6. Saide/OER Africa project activities Working with The Catholic University in Mozambique, the University of Pretoria, the University of the Witwatersrand, Rhodes University and the South African Department of Basic Education, To use OER in teacher education course design, and/or To release newly developed or adapted materials as OER. As part of the DETA (Distance Education and Teacher Training in Africa) Conference organising committee Led by University of Pretoria, with the Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique, and in close association with the TESSA programme, Working to form a Special Interest Group on OER for Teacher Education at a pre-conference workshop in Maputo in August 2011.www.oerafrica.netwww.saide.org.za

8. South Africa: Organising action research by B.Ed student-teachers using TESSA OERs.

9. Contributing to African Teacher Education OER Network

10. Ghana: Adapting TESSA for national Early Childhood Curriculum

11. Sudan: Writing new Teacher Practice Guides using TESSA OERs for both students and supervisors

12. Nigeria: Developing model TESSA demonstration school