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Mark Horner

Mark Horner

Mark works in the area of Open and Collaborative Resources. His Fellowship enables him to work on a number of projects in this area. Mark manages the Siyavula project, where he co-ordinates the development of a comprehensive set of Open Educational Resources (OER) supporting the South African National Curriculum. This relies on the development of communities to create and support the OERs as well as the provision of platforms for development.

Mark believes in the liberation of information and supporting education in South Africa. He is one of the co-founders of the Free High School Science Texts (FHSST) project which is funded by the Foundation and was launched in 2002. Mark has a PhD in physics from the University of Cape Town and conducted his research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California on the results from the STAR experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York.

Mark’s blog highlights the progress on the Siyavula project and contains his thoughts on the OER space in general.


Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Mark Horner, SF Fellow

What happened to the last 5 months!
Wow, it has been way too long. I hope those of you worried about whether or not any progress has been made have been following me (marknewlyn) and/or Siyavula on Twitter. Highlight We’ve been... Read more – ‘ What happened to the last 5 months! ’.

Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, FHSST, FullMarks, Mark Horner, OERs, SF Fellow, Siyavula

Siyavula’s Progress to Sustainability
It has been quite a year so far for Siyavula. My rate of blogging is inversely correlated with real work (queue DDoS attack by blogging world) so the lack of activity should have told you that... Read more – ‘ Siyavula’s Progress to Sustainability ’.

Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: Communities of Practice, Connexions, DanMeyer, Fellows Blogs, FHSST, Free Software Foundation, KhanAcademy, Mark Horner, OERs, open governance, SF Fellow, Siyavula

Why should the best schools share?
We recently did a little travelling around South Africa (Durban/Pietermaritzburg and Johannesburg) running events where we raise awareness of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement, the shared... Read more – ‘ Why should the best schools share? ’.

Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: Fellows Blogs, FHSST, hackathon, Mark Horner, sprint, Stellenbosch, translation

Afrikaans Translation Hackathon
I just wanted to quickly dump a few thoughts about a big event we’re about to run. I’ve been slipping behind in my blogging and thought I’d inflict a quick core dump on... Read more – ‘ Afrikaans Translation Hackathon ’.

Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: BIF2010, Fellows Blogs, Mark Horner, SchoolOfOne, SF Fellow, Siyavula

Big Ideas Fest 2010 videos available
In December last year I was lucky enough to be invited to the Big Ideas Festival, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), as a rapid-fire speaker. The... Read more – ‘ Big Ideas Fest 2010 videos available ’.

Written by: Mark Horner

Posted in: facilitation, Fellows Blogs, FHSST, FullMarks, Mark Horner, OpenPress, Siyavula, technical support, workshops

Expanding our team
Siyavula is a Shuttleworth Foundation seeded project that supports and encourages communities of teachers to work together, openly share their teaching resources and benefit from the use of... Read more – ‘ Expanding our team ’.