This document summarizes Rwanda's adaptation of open educational resources (OER) to develop an advanced ICT Essentials course for teachers. A taskforce coordinated by UNESCO and Rwanda's Ministry of Education developed the course to provide skills for integrating ICT into teaching based on UNESCO's ICT Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT). They selected OER and adapted them to the Rwandan context, revising aspects like standards, content, activities and timelines. The adapted course was piloted with teachers across Rwanda's provinces and validated by ministry officials. The process built expertise in implementing OER and customized a strategy for ongoing teacher training using a community of practice model.

1. Rwanda Case Study on OER Adaptation

2. Overview Of Rwanda ICT in Education Policy
ICT in
Education
Policy
Stated
Promoting science and technology in education with special
attention to ICT
Transforming the Rwandan citizen into skilled human capital
for socio-economic development by ensuring equitable
access to quality education
ICT is used as a tool to enhance teaching and learning all
education levels.

3. ICT CFT/OER Project in Rwanda
Objectives: Aligning the ICT CFT to support Rwanda ICT
in Education Policy
To define the objective of teacher training
materials to support the use of ICT CFT
To outline the process for the development
of OER to support training materials

4. Developing Rwanda
ICT Essentials for
Teachers Course
• Taskforce team coordinated by UNESCO & REB a teacher
professional development course designed to provide
skills to integrate ICT into teaching and learning.
• UNESCO ICT CFT was used in development of the ICT
Essentials for Teachers’ Course.
• Fourteen competencies drawn directly from UNESCO ICT
CFT and integrated into Rwanda ICT Essentials for
Teachers Course. The course materials are composed of
local & international OER.
• The OER have been adapted to support the Rwandan
context. Rwanda ICT Essentials for Teachers Course were
revised in terms of standards format, content, learning
activities and minimum required time for each unit
aligned to UNESCO ICT CFT.

5. OER Adaptation Process
• Development of OER based curriculum for in-service teacher training course are tailored to local
needs to use ICT for quality teaching and learning.
• Selection of developed openly licensed teacher training materials available as OER in order to support
effective teacher training for integration of ICT in Rwandan classrooms.
• Fourteen competencies drawn directly from UNESCO ICT CFT and integrated into Rwanda ICT
Essentials for Teachers Course. The course materials are composed of local & international OER.
• The OER have been adapted to support the Rwandan context. Rwanda ICT Essentials for Teachers
Course were revised in terms of standards format, content, learning activities and minimum required
time for each unit aligned to UNESCO ICT CFT.
• UNESCO ICT CFT competency and some suggested OER have been adapted and contextualized to
work within the Rwanda context.
• Rwanda Essentials for Teachers Course template design. This was based on local context reflecting
National Curriculum Framework.
• Teacher ICT competencies have been organized according to levels and aspects as outlined within
UNESCO ICT CFT (version3) document.

6. Development Process
Identify the Advanced
ICT Essentials for
Teachers Course
curriculum and scope.
Create a course
curriculum document
that stipulates scope,
content and
competencies to be
covered.
Link the curriculum
document to the new
UNESCO-ICT CFT,
Identify OER for
development.
Identify development
teams
Script writing for each
unit of study
Developing the unit of
study in REB Moodle
platform

10. Selection of
Competencies &
How was
Consensus Gained
Developed Based on recommendations drawn from original ICT
Essentials for Teachers Course, e-tutors, participants, REB staff, Ministry
of Education (MENEDUC) and University of Rwanda College of Education
(UR) stakeholders, who were aware of the scope and methodology used
in the original ICT Essentials for Teachers Course;
Be a progression from the introductory ICT Essentials for
Teachers Course to a more advanced level of ICT integration for
teachers;
Focused on Knowledge Deepening and Knowledge Creation
levels of the UNESCO ICT Competency Framework for Teachers
(CFT)
Developed from contextualised open educational resources
(OER), drawn from the UNESCO ICT CFT hub on OER Commons
(See https://www.oercommons.org/hubs/UNESCO)
Included multimedia elements to enhance text and video
materials used in the original version of the course, as requested
by teachers and officials at the Ministry of Education

11. Validation of
the Course
Review aimed supporting the implementation of the
Rwanda ICT for Education Policy through the UNESCO ICT
Competency Framework for Teachers (ICT CFT).
The discussion focused on the development of openly
licensed OER to support teacher training in Rwandan
classrooms.
The course was validated and signed off by the ministry
officials and was published by UNESCO.
The ICT Essentials for Teachers Course is featured and
Available on OER Commons/UNESCO ICT CFT Hub

12. Piloting of the ICT Essentials for
Teachers Course
UNESCO in collaboration with REB organized Training of
11 e-tutors to build capacity and prepare 11 e-tutors to
facilitate a blended 64-hour course to train in-service
teachers to integrate ICT in teaching and learning.
After the training, 11e-tutors piloted the course in a blended
model including 5-days face-to-face training and an additional
20 hours online in ten schools: 5 primary and 5 secondary
schools representing Rwanda’s four provinces and the city of
Kigali.
Piloting the course allowed fine-tuning of the methodology
employed for teaching ICT integration in education using a
blended format.
This was in line with Rwanda’s ICT in Education Policy the
country to make more use of ICT as a delivery mode to improve
access and quality to education across the country.
A monitoring and evaluation framework was also developed
for the course and the results of the evaluation were
favourable.

13. Customized&Adaptable
Teacher Training Strategy
CommunityofTeachers

14. Expertise Gained in the area of implementing OER’s
Ministry staff were capacited/trained throughout
the process of developing the framework.
We have dedicated department for the ICT in education
which is responsible for the overall implementation and
supervision of ICT in Education activities.
Staffing with advanced knowledge in ICT in education.
Close collaboration with teacher development and
training as well curriculum department.
Forum for ICT in Education Technical Working group
well established ( they give advice on policy

15. Teacher Training Course is Featured on
UNESCO ICT CFT –OER Hub

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