North-West University, South Africa (NWU) is committed to functioning as a unitary, integrated, multi-campus university that enables equity, redress and globally competitive teaching and research across all three of the campuses.
Their core activities, teaching-learning and research, are intertwined with community engagement and innovation in our eight faculties, most of which serve both distance and contact students.
The UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources
The UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER), hosted by the North-West University, South Africa, was established in April 2019.
The Chair aims to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation sharing on self-directed multimodal learning and OER. The Chair is situated within the Research Unit Self-directed Learning (SDL) of the Faculty of Education at the North-West University.
Dorothy Laubscher
Dorothy Laubscher is an associate research professor in the Research Unit Self-Directed Learning, in the Faculty of Education at the North-West University, South Africa.
She holds the UNESCO Chair on Multimodal Learning and Open Educational Resources at the North-West University. Her research interests include open educational resources, and blended and multimodal learning environments to foster self-directed learning, mathematics education, and technology-enhanced learning.
