The Open University and the South African Institute for Distance Education (SAIDE) partnership is collaborating in the production of a costing tool for Distance Education and use of ICTs in Teacher Development and support in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) along with its associated support documentation.
This is a research and development project initiated by the World Bank with funding from its Irish Education Trust Fund for Africa.
The project will produce a range of outcomes.
The following institutions have collaborated with us in developing some illustrative costing studies:
University of Fort Hare, South Africa
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria
Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI), OLSET, South Africa
Open University of Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Ecole Normale Supérieure, UCAD, Dakar, Senegal
All costing studies will be produced in both English and French. Investigations at the case study institutions were conducted according to a common format of questions and key points. However, this framework was applied very flexibly to maximise the unique features of each case. In particular issues that seem to be common across early cases were explored further with later ones. For example, the following key issues emerged:
