Application of Team-Working Model to Training OER Writers of Distance and E-learning Pathways Course Materials in Ghanaian Public Universities
Keywords:
Foundational writer, process writer, conclusive writer, totalistic writer, course materials, distance learning materials, course writer type, and training, OERAbstract
Collaborative course design and materials development has been a project that depended on qualified subject matter specialists and educationists working together to produce distance learning materials. Ghanaian public universities including the University of Ghana, University of Cape Coast and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), commission qualified lecturers to write course materials for delivery in the distance and e-learning mode. Writers have complained that they were lecturers and not course writers and hence require course-writer training. Open Educational Resource Writing Trainers identified and linked four (4) writer-types to quality writing at KNUST and Central University College, Accra. Of the writers (N=65) studied; only 7.7% were totalistic writers. About the 7.48% of the hardcopies of course materials surveyed had the totalistic writing style associated with quality course material writing. Some 92% were non-totalistic. Researchers designed a Team-Working Model to enhance the writer's type and writing style.
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