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.