On National Teacher Day, meet the 2024-25 Kenan Fellows
Skills for Prosperity Kenya and IET’s Take Your Teaching Online BOC
1. Work together. Learn together. Grow together.
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Skills for Prosperity Kenya and IET’s Take Your
Teaching Online BOC
Fereshte Goshtasbpour, Beck Pitt, Simon Cross, Rebecca Ferguson and
Denise Whitelock
CALRG Seminar, 01 December 2022
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The journey of Take You Teaching Online (TYTO) BOC
OU OpenLearn
Course
A free 8-week CPD
course
2018 2020
Take Your
Teaching
Online
Tertiary
Educator
Programme
Pathways to
Learning Project
A 6-week teacher
training course
(Africa)
Take Your
Training
Online
2021
ACCESS Project
A 6-session course
to train NGO &
charity staff to
deliver services
online
Digital
Education for
Universities
2021
Skills for Prosperity
Kenya Project
Baseline
training
Mastery
training
2022
Revisioning 2018
original course
Digital skills:
succeeding in
a digital world
The Transformation by
Innovation in Distance
Education (TIDE)
A free 4-week
professional
development course for
university staff
(Myanmar)
2018
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TYTO and Skills for Prosperity Kenya
TYTO is remixed and repurposed to:
• Offer two capacity development programmes in digital education to all
public universities in Kenya
o Base-line training (8 weeks)
o Mastery training (8 months training & 14 months practical work)
• Train educators, managers and support staff
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TYTO and Skills for Prosperity Kenya
To assess participants’ needs and to repurpose and remix TYTO appropriately,
JISC Digital Capabilities Framework for three roles was used.
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TYTO and Skills for Prosperity Kenya
We examined participants’ confidence in four areas of digital capabilities
before and after the training:
1. Information, data and media literacies
2. Digital creation, problem solving and innovation
3. Digital learning and development
4. Digital communication, collaboration and participation
Sample: 119 Tool: Timescale:
• Educators= 64 Shortened JISC DC Before & immediately
• Managers=26 questionnaire after the baseline
• Support staff=29 training
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1. Use collaborative digital environments and
tools.
Digital communication, collaboration and
participation
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1. Use accessible and inclusive forms of
communication, considering the needs of
different users.
Digital communication, collaboration and
participation
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Information, data and media literacies
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Support staff
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1. Use digital networks and social media to
build internal or external networks.
Digital communication, collaboration and
participation
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Acknowledgement
Illustrations in this presentation are original or remixed
versions of a selection of
images produced by Visual Thinkery for the UK-Aid
Funded Skills for Prosperity Kenya programme, and are
licensed CC BY 4.0
Editor's Notes
1- 2018 An open OU course for CPD purposes
2 – Course recommended/optional prior to pandemic. Adapted course released April 2020 (planned before pandemic). Shorter course than original (10 hours and 4 weeks) which reflected available time, English as a second language and also needs/relevance to cohort (mixture of university staff – not just academics - and roles so some parts less relevant). Minor adaptation for context and review of language. Part of Gateway courses for university staff.
3- In 2020 and at the beginning of the pandemic, this course was repurposed, localised and supplemented with webinars and community activities to help HE educators in Africa move their in-person teaching online.
4- In 2021, The ACCESS Consortium led by the International Planned Parenthood Federation re-mixed and repurpose this course to train staff in charities and NGOs to move their training online https://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=6962
5- In 2021, The Skills for Prosperity Project repurposed and localised the course to build capacity of staff in all Kenyan public universities and this is the focus of this presentation.
