Freda Wolfenden
Open University
46 Papers
197 Citations
Freda Wolfenden is an academic researcher from Open University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Teacher education & Open educational resources. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 40 publications.
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Papers
Learning In Landscapes of Practice: Boundaries, Identity and Knowledgeability in Practice-Based Learning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an engaging conversation on professional learning grounded in the work and voices of practitioners and those teaching or researching with practitioners across diverse fields, disciplines, professions and contexts, education, health, social care, environment, public relations and management.
Developing a pedagogy of mutuality in a capability approach: Teachers’ experiences of using the Open Educational Resources (OER) of the teacher education in sub-Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme
Patricia Murphy,Freda Wolfenden +1 more
TL;DR: The TESSA (teacher education in sub Saharan Africa) programme aims to improve teacher education at scale by developing open educational resources (OER) that allow sustainable and locally managed pedagogical change in higher education institutions and schools as discussed by the authors.
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The TESSA OER Experience: Building sustainable models of production and user implementation
TL;DR: This paper identifies key research findings and literature which informed the TESSA approach and activity design and suggests a pattern of resource making and design that could be adopted by other programmes serving parallel development needs.
OER Adaptation and Reuse across cultural contexts in Sub Saharan Africa: Lessons from TESSA (Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa)
TL;DR: The TESSA Open Educational Resources (OERs) project as discussed by the authors is a set of OERs designed and created by International and African based institutions to support school based teacher education.
An exploration of agency in the localisation of open educational resources for teacher development
Freda Wolfenden,Lina Adinolfi +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the practice of adaptation and translation (localisation) of Open Educational Resources (OER), employing a sociocultural perspective to focus on the experiences of people.
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