About MERLOT and Partners in Africa

MERLOT - Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching In 1997, The Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT, www.merlot.org) is an international cooperative formed for the purpose of aggregating and making freely accessible high quality online resources to improve learning and teaching within higher education. MERLOT’s organization and services connect higher education systems, consortiums, and institutions, professional societies and organizations of academic disciplines, corporations, and individual members to form a community of people who strive to enrich the teaching and learning experiences with technologies.

MERLOT provides:

An open, online catalog of thousands of online learning materials.
Quality assurance processes for the evaluating the learning materials
Open community tools for its members to manage and personalize their use of MERLOT resources and services
A directory of people with common interests in teaching and learning with online materials across a wide range of disciplines
Technologies for customizing services for our partners
Professional development services for our partners
User-friendly authoring tools to create open educational resources
Leadership opportunities for individuals and institutional to put educational innovations into practice

Visit MERLOT and its Programs

Karangoma - Botswana

Karangoma is the result of a partnership with local elder Olatotse Sarefo and is rooted in Bukakhwe San and Hambukushu culture.

The name itself is a Sembukushu word describing ‘drum beating, ancestral healing, bringing good future to the tribe, or, when one is ill, cure dancing’. It is exactly this essence of healing and harmony that the camp seeks to offers its guests in their reconnection with nature and traditional cultures.

Karangoma camp supports and is supported by a diverse community of peoples in the Okavango Delta. Each community and its members brings exceptional expertise to the educational and exploration experience shared with people from around the world.