OER Africa Research - Continuing Professional Development strategies in Higher Education Institutions

The report suggests that there are three drivers increasing the need for CPD in higher education, namely: • The massification and marketisation of HE; • The digitalisation of HE; and • The value of professional success for individual academics. [...] They nevertheless highlighted issues such as the inadequacy of qualified academic staff, the aging and exodus of such staff, the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and a lack of scrutiny in implementing information and communication technology (ICT) for teaching and learning. [...] Some of the recommendations arising from global CPD initiatives can be applied in the African context, and could support the development and implementation of CPD in African institutions. [...] The framework is a set of framing questions across the top of a matrix, related to a set of elements or criteria down the left-hand side of the matrix. [...] Continuing Professional Development strategies in Higher Education Institutions is a review of innovative CPD approaches used in higher education globally, CPD models relevant for the African context, learnings from the piloting of the OER Africa learning pathways, and a framework of CPD elements and activities developed for a course on CPD for senior academics.