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BACKGROUND  I am a Physiotherapy educator with no background training in education and pedagogy. The only orientation I had when I was employed was on what was expected of me and how to balance my teaching with research to facilitate promotion. Teaching for me was therefore, learning on the job and ensuring contents were covered. […]

BACKGROUND  I was appointed in 2018 by the Maseno University Chief Executive to be a Learner Support Assistant (LSA) for School of Arts and Social Sciences’ (SASS) programs for e-Campus online learners. This appointment came as a surprise to me since though I was competent in using computers I was not aware of anything dealing […]

In the University of Jos, when I was recruited as an academic staff, there was no form of any intervention training on Course Design, Course Facilitation and Authentic Assessment. This was the scenario until the intervention from the Partnership for Africa Social and Governance Research (PASGR) through PedaL that aimed at innovative transformative pedagogy in […]

BACKGROUND  When COVID-19 struck the world, various States never predicted the devastating effects the pandemic was going to cause to our economies. Most frustrating happened when learning came to a standstill due to the closure of learning institutions. At my University (Riara University-Kenya) we had started online classes before the pandemic but lessons were not […]

BACKGROUND  public universities in kenya, and in most african countries, have grown exponentially in numbers in the last three decades. this may not be matched with prerequisite resources for quality teaching and learning. the choice of pedagogical methods therefore becomes tricky for most faculty. studies have shown that in such environment, the more preferred option […]

BACKGROUND  As a lecturer, I mainly employed lecture method of teaching which was face to face. Learner participation was minimal, mainly group assignments, asking and answering of questions. With the COVID-19 outbreak and intervention measures directed by the government, face to face learning could not continue, forcing the use of technology in learning despite the […]

BACKGROUND  The PedaL training particularly, the Online Course came in at a time when the University of Ghana had initiated a transformation agenda to migrate teaching and learning online amid COVID-19. The PedaL training was intended to equip academic staff members with the necessary pedagogical skills require to deliver the teaching and learning processes online […]

BACKGROUND   Like the saying goes “every scholar is a product of his/her time.” I too came to realize that, for a long time, my teaching philosophy was influenced by the way I was taught. I was almost always the sage on the stage and my learners were the passive receivers of knowledge. For this reason, […]

BACKGROUND My institution, before the outbreak of COVID-19 believes that technology is an important tool in education delivery as it enhances self-paced, learner-centred education, but less was done to actualise this. When the pandemic broke out, they began to expedite actions on putting in place the necessary resources (human, equipment, skill acquisition) for online studies. […]

BACKGROUND  I teach at Moi University in Kenya. Individuals recruited to teach at the University are not put through any mentorship or training programme.  The first group to be trained on how to teach at university were taken to the United Kingdom in 1989 for a three month training stint. Another group of medical doctors […]