At the end of 2016, the #FeesMustFall protests led to mass disruption of academic activities in higher education institutions countrywide. Many institutions were forced to look towards online and blended learning approaches to complete the academic year. In most cases, these methods were unplanned and unstructured. The Carnegie Corporation of New York funded a two-year research project in collaboration with the University of Pretoria, University of the Free State, University of Cape Town and University of Johannesburg to investigate the use of blended learning at the end of 2016, during the disruption period, as well as how these respective institutions used blended learning in 2017. The lessons learned in the first phase of this project allowed these four institutions to develop a range of resources for online and blended learning. We are excited to share these as open educational resources with other higher education institutions in South Africa.