This proposal describes early experiences of the course conversion to OER process carried out at the Open University of Tanzania. The pilot project identified two courses for conversion, Philosophy of Education and Teaching (OEF 101) and Commercial Law (OLW 304) ,and it involved a team made up of subject matter experts (lecturers) , e-learning specialists and other OER specialists from partnering organizations. The starting workflow process was adapted from dScribe (Open.Michigan, 2012) and it involved six key stages including: content preparation, copyright clearance, creative commons licence selection, multimedia integration, portal/repository identification and publishing the courses for distribution. The paper also provides an insight to lessons learned and proposed improvements including institutional support and availability of OER policy for successful transformation of learning materials. The study is considered significant as there is limited literature available that focuses on the process of converting existing courses to openly licenced resources. The inputs from this paper are set to share knowledge and motivate other entities that are implementing similar projects.
