Podcast n°2 : Introducing digital OER into Zambian schools

This podcast is from Cambridge University website, it is a presentation about the first phase of the OER4Schools project. These are 20 questions and the answers are at the end.

This is the link.

1. Where is Sarah Hennessy from?

2. What does OER stand for?

3. What are the three different pillars of the OER?

4. Which words are linked to the three pillars in the presentation?

5. Fill in the blanks : "All the (...) changed their practice, they all developped their UCVCTs, they were (...) to incorporate new ressources. They accomodated the perspectives of (...)."

6. About who is Sarah Hennessy speaking in the question n°5?

7. True or false : the work in the classroom is individual.

8. True or false : interractivity and participation is important in this project.

9. True or false : the students only did written work.

10. What is different about the notion of noise?

11. Why?

12. Fill in the blanks : So we conclude that the shift toward (...) was a quite possible within a shortime with (...)."

13. What does the second phase contain? (give three exemples)

14. What does it focuse on?

15. Which are the partners? (give three of them)

16. True or flase : the teachers have to work separated.

17. Why?

18. How many phases there is in the year course?

19. Fill in the blanks : "So automatically we are hoping to (...) and to (...) in schools."

20. Choose the right answer : the name of the center which present this project is the Humanitarian Center, the Educational Center or the Helping Center?


ANSWERS


1. The Center of Commonwealth Education, University of Cambridge, UK

2. Open Educational Ressources

3. ICT, OER and pedagogy

4. ICT = money, peace, internet, computer, power ; OER = downloading ressources, getting ressources, discovery ; pedagogy = classroom strategies, lesson plans, enquiry-based learning

5. participants ; able to search on the Internet ; their learners

6. About the teachers

7. False

8. True

9. False

10. Here, it is not a negative notion

11. Because it means questions, discussions and answers

12. new teaching approaches ; limited ressources

13. video clips, lesson plans, classroom activity sheets

14. mathematics and science

15. iSchool, ministry, UNZA

16. false

17. because they create ressources from their colleagues

18. 6

19.  inform professional practice ; promote learning

20. the Humanitarian Center