By Gracian Chimwaza, Blessing Chataira and Chipo Msengezi. Institutional repositories are increasing in number, improving access to online archiving and preserving and disseminating digital copies of the intellectual output of research institutions. Doors are opening for students in low-income countries to access instructional and tutorial materials from leading universities in the developed world at the touch of a button.
Digital libraries – collections of documents organised in an electronic form – encompass learning tools that could potentially enable huge strides in research, teaching and learning in African academic and research institutions.
They support the development of institutional repositories, open educational resources or OERs, and massive open online courses or MOOCs. Read more...
Digital libraries – collections of documents organised in an electronic form – encompass learning tools that could potentially enable huge strides in research, teaching and learning in African academic and research institutions.
They support the development of institutional repositories, open educational resources or OERs, and massive open online courses or MOOCs. Read more...