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Mobile Money: Cell Phone Banking in Developing Countries
(Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California at Berkeley, 2010)
Mobile money allows users to pay for goods and services by using short message service (SMS) to transfer either local currency or mobile minutes. Mobile money can increase access of financial services. Unfortunately, ...
Producing Open Educational Resources From Scratch: The Case Of Health Sciences At University Of Ghana And Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology
(Commonwealth of Learning, 2012-06)
This chapter looks at the production and promotion of health open educational resources (OER) at the University of Ghana (UG) and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Both institutions initially chose ...
Growing an Institutional Health OER Initiative: A Case Study of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
(South African Institute for Distance Education, 2011-05)
This case study is the result of semi-structured interviews with teaching faculty, other staff and students involved in Open Educational Resources (OER) activities at KNUST. Interviewees (listed on the last page) gave their ...
Towards a Sustainable Inter-Institutional Collaborative Framework for Open Educational Resources (OER)
(2013)
Despite the potential benefits of a collaborative approach to OER production, sharing and distribution, little research has been directed to it. Furthermore, collaboration is not a panacea to the complex OER agenda, which ...
The African Health OER Network: Advancing health education in Africa through open educational resources
(2010-12)
This short commentary explains the value proposition of open educational resources for health education, the motivations behind the creation of the African Health OER Network, its services and its collection of learning materials.
Growing an Institutional Health OER Initiative: A Case Study of the University of Ghana
(South African Institute for Distance Education, 2011-05)
This case study is the result of semi-structured interviews with teaching faculty, other staff and students involved in health Open Educational Resources (OER) activities at University of Ghana (UG). The interviewees (listed ...
A Framework to Integrate Public, Dynamic Metrics Into an OER Platform
(2014-04)
The usage metrics for open educational resources (OER) are often either hidden behind an authentication system or shared intermittently in static, aggregated format at the repository level. This paper discusses the first ...
Collaboration between Developed and Developing Countries Offers Opportunities to Amplify Global Health Research
(2013)
The complexity, scope and intensity of global health challenges demand international collaboration. Collaboration between developing and developed countries can be an effective strategy for tackling shared health issues. ...
The Nationalization And Commercialization Of Ghanaian Folklore
(Michigan Journal of Public Affairs, 2009)
Folklore is an integral component of a nation’s cultural identity. For over thirty years UNESCO and WIPO have advised developing countries to implement special protection for folklore within their local copyright legislation. ...
Measuring our Impact: the Open.Michigan Initiative
(2011)
The Open.Michigan initiative has been producing and promoting high quality Open Educational Resources (OER) from the University of Michigan (U-M) and its partner institutions since early 2008. As the initiative refines its ...