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TESSA is a research and development initiative creating open educational resources (OERs) and course design guidance for teachers and teacher educators working in Sub-Saharan African countries.
"perhaps the most successful of all the OER projects we have heard about"
Sir John Daniel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Commonwealth of Learning
"The TESSA website …one of Africa’s most extensive multilingual websites for open education resources"
Professor Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Executive Chair, TESSA and former Vice Chancellor, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana
Read a Statement from Professor Anamuah-Mensah.
TESSA has produced a large bank of materials directly aimed at enhancing and improving access to, and the quality of, local school based education and training for teachers. These materials (including audio and other media) are modular in format. They focus on classroom practice in the key areas of literacy, numeracy, science, social studies and the arts and life skills. All the materials are available through this website in a variety of different formats and languages.
"The TESSA materials are easily located in the environment around us without having to travel long distances at high cost"
Teacher, Tanzania
TESSA is a consortium of 18 national and international organisations including 13 institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa who are using the TESSA materials in a variety of teacher education programmes (for further details see TESSA in Use):
The British Council has provided funding to develop and evaluate distance teacher education programmes at mass scale in Nigeria and Sudan and the OU alumni have contributed towards study visits and research scholarships.
A copy of the TESSA programme progress report 2005-07 can be downloaded here.
TESSA is hosted and supported by  The Open University, UK
The TESSA materials have been authored primarily by academics from across Africa. We are grateful to the following authors for their contribution. If we have inadvertently omitted someone, please let us know and we will gladly add to this list of acknowledgements.
Amani Abdel Gafar, Ojerinde Abimbola, Joseph K. Aboagye, Peter Acheampong, K.R. Adeboye, Florence Aguti, Janet Aguti, Jessica Aguti, Josephine Osei Agyekum, Margaret Aina, Jophus Anamuah-Mensah, Kwame Asante, Emmanuel Babyegeya, Abdul Badmus, Elizabeth Botha, Chanda Chishimba, Emmanuel Ndan Danladi, Gareth Dart, Michele Deane, Jane Devereux, Charles Benhard Dueda, Dora Edu-Baundoh, Carolyn Halliday, Johan Hendrikz, Inekwe Onwuegbu Israel, Nick James, Alan Kenyon, Fred Keraro, Lydia Kimaryo, Adewale Kolawole, Jenny Leach, Harriet Marshall, Elias Oupa Mashile, Margaret Matthews, Ian Moll, Bob Moon, Cornelia Muganda, Ekpunobi Edith Nwabugo, Mthunzi Nxawe, Abdul Ogunlade, Festus Ogunlade, Mobolaji Ogunsanya, Daniel Okot, Isaac Olaofe, Oloyede Olufunmilayo, Prince Olude, Anthonia Ekanibe Onuorah, Gilbert Onwu, Charles Opolot-Okurut, Nur Elhuda Isam Eldin Osman, Aron Otto, Tom Power, Yvonne Reed, Neville Reuben, Alison Mead Richardson, Keith Ricketts, James Rutebuka, Erasme Rwanamiza, Ali M. ElJack Salih, Naledi Mbude Shale, Hanna Simpassa, Mohammed Hassan Ahmed Sinada, Simon Smith, Kodjo Donkor Taale, Margaret Tabone, Jayshree Thakrar,Eugenia Ukpo, Abdurrahman Umar, Tessa Welch, Freda Wolfenden, Zoulikha Zaidi
Every effort has been made to trace all the copyright owners, but if any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.
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