Catriona Savage, UNESCO Education Sector, Paris, France

PRESENTATION TITLE:
A Way Forward for Open Educational Resources: deliberations of an international community

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Bakary Diallo, Rector of the African Virtual University, Nairobi, Kenya – East Africa -

PRESENTATION TITLE:
The African Virtual University: Raising awareness through its OER Architecture

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Moustapha Diack, Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA – Director, MERLOT Africa Network (MAN)

PRESENTATION TITLE:
Supporting Research and Education through the Adoption of Free and Open Access Publications

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Vikram Savkar,Senior Vice President and Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. 

PRESENTATION TITLE:
OA CASE STUDY - Discovering the new science portal deployed by nature education to support global education

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Gerry Hanley, Executive Director of MERLOT - California State University, CA - USA 

KEY NOTE ADDRESS:
MERLOT: More than OER – Open Services to Support Education

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AFTERNOON WORKSHOP
TIME: 2:00 – 5:00 PM
Making the MERLOT Repository and Community part of your eLearning endeavors: Opportunities for Higher Education in Africa

• Workshop Participants will become familiar with how to use the MERLOT eLearning repository and how to become a part of its Community. A primary aim of this workshop is to enable participants to develop plans to integrate MERLOT in their institutional/organizational eLearning programs.
  
  
• Workshop Participants will receive a free full license of the LodeStar learning software.
  
  
• Participants to the Pan-African forum on OER/OA will receive Professional Development Certificate (PDC):   PDC will be signed by the organizations (MAN, eLA and AVU) attesting of their contribution to the PAN-AF Forum on OER and OA 2008

Dr. Laura L. Franklin is a Professor of French at Northern Virginia Community College in Alexandria, Virginia.  She is the current Vice Chair of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and elected Chair for 2009. She was awarded in 2003 the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia Outstanding Faculty award. She is co-Editor of the World Languages collection of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT). Research interests Of Dr. Franklin have included the internationalization of the curriculum, the affordances of the Open Educational Resource Movement, the role of community colleges in World Languages nationwide, and the growing need for the expansion of critical language programs.
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|||| Southern University in Baton Rouge - SUBR, LA – USA || Southern University System – SUS, LA – USA ||   Kennesaw State University - KSU, GA – USA || MERLOT Africa Network -  MAN|| African Virtual University-AVU, Kenya, East Africa || eLearning Africa Conference – eLA || MERLOT Organization and Community – MERLOT || UNESCO Open Training Platform - OPT || The National Repository of Online Courses – NROC, USA || Qedoc Interactive Educational Resources - Qedoc ||Connexions || Educational Research Network for West and Central Africa - ERNWACA ||Global Textbook Project - GTP ||Association Senegalaise des Expatries Consultants - ASEC ||||

Visit the eLA Web Site and see the Conference Site with information about Accra and Ghana. We have also discovered an excellent resource about Ghana, Culture Talk Ghana , from the MERLOT Repository (resource kindly shared by Dr. Laura Franklin)

Accra International Conference Centre (AICC)