The African Health OER Network (“the Network”), a project of Saide’s OER Africa Initiative,  works with partner institutions to develop, adapt, and share health educational resources with the aim of impacting positively on overall health provision in Africa and beyond. Since 2008, the following partners to the Network have been engaged in the development of Open Education Resources (OER): Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana (UG), University of Cape Town (UCT), and University of the Western Cape (UWC). These resources have been uploaded on various websites for other people outside these institutions to make use of. One of the repositories is the Network website. The project has been running for 3 years and is now ready for an impact evaluation that focuses on institutional activities , as well as the reach of the developed and shared resources. As part of a wide-ranging impact assessment of the Network, this particular questionnaire is addressed to the broader public of Health Sciences faculty staff and students outside of the partner institutions listed above. Faculty staff or students from our partner institutions (UCT, UWC, KNUST and UG) need not complete this questionnaire. Please assist us by completing the online questionnaire. If you are unable to complete this survey online due to limited Internet access, you can complete the MS Word Version and please send completed questionnaires to Prof Ken Harley. If you have difficulties in completing this survey, or have any comments or queries, please contact Prof Ken Harley. We hope you will be able to take the time to complete this brief survey and circulate/distribute this notice to as many people and networks as possible. We welcome your participation and feedback. The survey will remain active until 31 March 2012.

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