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The African Virtual University's (AVU) Open Educational Resources (OER) portal http://oer.avu.org/ has been nominated for the Education-Portal.com's OCW People's Choice Award http://eduport.al/qR3Kbt
Nominations were made by Education-Portal.com's readers and other members of the OCW community. The AVU has been nominated in the "Best Emerging Initiative" category. Education-Portal.com is a US based company; the nominees are among the best OCW/OER organizations in the world.
The OER@AVU http://oer.avu.org/ Portal was launched in January 2011 and hosts more than 200 textbooks of Mathematics, Sciences and Teacher Education as well as 91 videos. As at June 2011, the AVU OER resources were viewed or downloaded 200,000 times in 142 countries worldwide, including 41 African countries.
The AVU is humbled by this nomination and would like to thank its partners and supporters, especially the African Development Bank http://www.afdb.org/en/ which is the main sponsor of the AVU OER@AVU portal.
Supporting AVU's nomination by Voting
You can support the AVU nomination by voting and by asking your friends and network to vote for the AVU. Voting is open to all until August 15 2011.
To vote, go to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VC9CG5K , under ''Best Emerging Initiative'' select the ''African Virtual University OER'', and then click on the ''Done'' button at the bottom of the page.
About The OER@AVU Portal
The African Virtual University (AVU) www.avu.org launched an interactive Open Educational Resources (OER) portal OER@AVU in January 2011. The portal is available at http://oer.avu.org and contains quality resources developed collaboratively with 12 universities in 10 African countries. The resources are released as Open Educational Resources under the Creative Commons open licence. Through the portal, the AVU is enabling academics all around the African continent and beyond to share, distribute and disseminate their resources globally and contribute towards Africa's economic development through education.
The resources are free to use and institutions and individuals can access the materials, use, modify and put them back to enrich the portal. They can also contribute their own resources. This initiative has been funded by the African Development Bank.
Thank you
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