Open education resources offer many benefits: how to remove obstacles

By Vollan Okoth Ochieng, Research Officer, African Population and Health Research Center
Razak M. Gyasi, Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center

Nearly 1.6 billion learners globally have been experiencing various forms of disruption in learning due to COVID-19. School closures, as a means to reduce the spread of the virus, set the stage for the adoption of online learning solutions.

Several governments in sub-Saharan Africa, as in other parts of the world, adopted distance learning approaches to allow education to go on during the pandemic.

Distance…

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