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Professional Development Frameworks and Resources for Staff in African Higher Education Institutions
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Many academics who work in higher education have never had formal training in how to teach students. Over the past few years, there have been several calls for the foregrounding of continuous professional development (CPD) in teaching and learning. Open Educational Resources (OER) Africa has developed frameworks that can assist with the planning and implementation of PD for three groups of higher education professionals: academics, academic librarians and senior persons leading CPD in teaching and learning. Each framework is supported by a curated set of openly licensed resources together with guidelines for their use. Going forward, OER Africa is seeking to develop innovative ways of engaging institutions to encourage use of both the frameworks and resources. Possible innovations include the following: encouraging institutions to adopt gamified approaches to professional development; designing short, interactive tutorials to introduce key concepts; providing customisable templates and guides so institutions can adapt the frameworks to their specific contexts; encouraging institutions to collect and analyse data on their CPD practices, together with any relationship to the frameworks. The presentation will use technology to encourage audience feedback on (a) the frameworks and (b) innovative ways of engaging institutions to encourage use of the frameworks and resources.
PCF11 Sub-Theme: Gender, Technology and Innovation in Open Education
Paper ID: 0128
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2025-09
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Commonwealth of Learning (COL)