OER Case Study Publication No.3,CurriculumNet: Creating Freely Available Curriculum Materials to Meet Uganda's Growing Student Population

ISKME Case Study Report
February 1st, 2008
Publication Author: 
The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education
Resource Type: 
Articles

To meet the needs of its rapidly growing student population, the government of Uganda has 

adopted Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a central part of its strategy for 

curriculum development and dissemination. The goals of the CurriculumNet Project are to develop, test, 

and integrate ICT-based instructional materials and teaching into existing Ugandan curricula. This case 

study presents key practices and learnings from the CurriculumNet project's collaborative curriculum 

development process, as well as the opportunities and challenges faced by the project overall. Through 

analysis of the project's internal documentation, as well as interviews with the CurriculumNet project 

leader, the study first documents how the project developed and disseminated curriculum resources, 

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