Zambia

Policies Survey notes:

Zambia is participating in the OER4OS project. This experience has allowed the country to develop most of its school-level materials in an electronic format and make them available as OER. Zambia identifies this initiative as responding to the challenge of supplying material to schools and other educational institutions.

The respondent to Policies Survey from Zambia noted in relation to Zambia's motivations for involvement in the OER movement that "We have a big challenge in the supply of material to our learning institutions and therefore open educational resources would be an answer."

Overview

Further information

The Republic of Zambia is a landlocked country in Sub-Saharan Africa. The neighbouring countries are the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania to the north-east, Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, and Namibia to the south, and Angola to the west. The population of Zambia is nearly 12,000,000. The capital city is Lusaka, located in the southeast of the country. The population is concentrated mainly around the capital and the Copperbelt to the northwest. Zambia is divided into nine provinces, each administered by an appointed deputy minister. Each province is subdivided into several districts with a grand total of 73 districts.

For further general information see Wikipedia:Zambia.

Education in Zambia

For a general description of education in Zambia see Education:Zambia.

e-learning

For a description more focussed to e-learning see E-learning:Zambia.

OER Initiatives in Zambia

Institutional OER initiatives

The University of Zambia is part of the TESSA network.

References

Reports

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