EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES – Jangjo High School

ONLINE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Online Educational Resources play a vital role in creating an effective learning environment by supporting and enhancing learners’ development and academic achievement. They are designed to reinforce understanding, strengthen key concepts, and, where appropriate, provide opportunities for learners to apply and assess their knowledge. These resources support both learners and educators by improving teaching and learning practices and ensuring access to high-quality educational content that promotes continuous growth and excellence.

A wide range of educational resources is available to enrich and support learning beyond the classroom. These include popular online learning platforms such as YouTube, Khan Academy, Udemy, and Mindset Xtra, which offer accessible and interactive lessons across various subjects. Learners can also benefit from multimedia resources such as educational videos, audio content, PDF materials, animations, illustrations, as well as educational plays and radio programmes that bring learning to life.

Below are some of the resources we highly recommend. Learners are encouraged to register with at least one of these platforms to enhance their understanding, build confidence, and take greater ownership of their learning journey.

E-Classroom is the first digital educational platform to launch in South Africa in 2011 to provide a wide range of educational resources in response to teachers and parents…

Mindset is a non-profit organisation formed to improve education. Mindset develops, produces, sources and distributes content in digital format. This content is…

Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace. We tackle mathematics, science…

Siyavula Practice is an online Mathematics and Physical Sciences practice service for high school learners. The program provides learners with virtually unlimited questions that progressively…

Welcome to the National Department of Basic Education website. Here you will find information on, amongst others, the curriculum, previous question papers from every province…

Benefits of these Online Educational Resources (OER's)

You can expand students access to learning: These resources can be accessed anywhere, by any student, at any time. As education has shifted to remote learning in many parts of the world, ensuring ease of accessibility to learning resources is essential for your student. Instead of having to worry about buying a specific textbook or print a handout, students can access this material from any electronic device of their choosing.
You can customize the material to fit your teaching needs: Much of the content includes everything from a source text edition explained, but this content can be modified/revised to suit the specific subject needs, meaning you can easily tailor content to support your curriculum.
You can use OER’s to enhance existing learning material: Since OER’s encompass such a wide variety of materials, they cover a tremendous number of educational topics in a wide range of mode and formats. The sheer variety of these formats can allow multiple modes of representation for key concepts, which supports diverse learning strengths and styles. This aligns with the Universal Design for Learning guidelines which aim to make learning accessible to all students, no matter their learning style.
OER’s are often cutting edge: Textbooks change every year. New discoveries are made. Progress moves forward. For typical academic material, this means rapid turnover, and the continual need to update (often expensive) textbooks and other material. By using OER’s, you will find that scholars and teachers are collaborating on cutting edge topics with innovative practices. Due to the collaborative nature of OER’s, material are continually and expertly updated by a community of dedicated educators.
OER’s save a lot of cash for students: Textbooks are expensive! The typical costs of textbooks for a high-school students cost anywhere from R950 – R1450 per academic year. This cost can be prohibitive for many students. Making a shift to OER’s teaching removes a costly burden from students and may make a crucial difference in their quality of life.