The document summarizes an initiative to create open educational resources (OERs) for teaching French in primary schools across several French-speaking countries in Africa. The initiative aims to develop a community of teachers, provide intensive training, and create educational resources using a wiki platform. The resources will be available for free online under a Creative Commons license.

1. Piloted in cooperation with OIF Creation of a strong
and AUF community for the project
Capacity development of primary Promote OERs in Africa
school teachers teaching French Intensive training sessions are
Several French speaking organized in the development
countries participate in the of resources
initiative Development of the resources
Support from governments on a WikiEducator platform
Educational resources are
available for free on Internet (CC http://wikieducator.org/FLOSS4Edu
License CC level 5)
http://www.ifadem.org
Jibril TOUZI - FLOSS4Edu Francophone - jtouzi@jtouzi.net

2. Why should governments and
institutions harness OERs?
• Opportunities of pedagogical innovation
• Social inclusion and lifelong learning
• Promote digital literacy in a knowledge society
vested in ICT
• Visibility to the institution
• Better quality resources taking advantage of
collaborative work
• Better return on investment to public funds
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3. Critical success factors in OER
• Good understanding of OERS by various institutions
(governments, institutions, teachers, etc.)
• Presence of a strong virtual community
• Development of poles of expertise
• Capacity development of the main institutions
• Efficient technical platform that is easy to use
• Recognize institutions that develop OERs, as well as
their sustainability
• Quality assurance of the resources produced
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4. What can governments do?
• Promote the benefits of OERs (show the example,
e.g. School manuals are released as OERs)
• Put in place policies and strategies to develop the
use of OERs (time range, capacity development,
gratification, etc.)
• Put together the initiatives of institutions so that it
can collaborate and that experiences are re-used
• Finance start-ups of OER initiatives in institutions
• Promote open standards
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