Theme:
Education for Empowering the Global South: Technologies and Pedagogies for Distance Teacher Education
 

Sub-Themes

Teacher professional development

• Pedagogies for initial and continuous teacher professional development
• Work-integrated learning (WIL); mentorship
  • How effective are placements for student teachers in school classrooms?
  • Induction in schools for newly qualified teachers
• Digital wellbeing

Literacy in multilingual and multicultural classrooms

• Innovative pedagogies to improve literacy skills
• Technological advances to foster literacy skills
• Teaching literacy in resource-constrained environments
• Promoting metaliteracies in distance teacher education

STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) education

• Innovative pedagogies and technologies to improve numeracy skills
•  Innovative pedagogies and technologies for science, technology, engineering and arts
• STEAM education in resource-constrained environments

Technologies for distance learning

• Innovative mobile learning
• Learning platforms: data analytics
• AI for distance learning: supporting learning, mentoring, socialisation and ethics, Generative AI
• Open education resources (OER) – creating, adapting and repurposing for teacher education and implications
• Educational applications
• Robotics and other 5IR technologies
• AR, VR, mixed reality and the metaverse

Designing pedagogies in distance teacher education

• Innovative design for learners with special education needs
• Instructional design for emerging pedagogies and technologies:
  • The metaverse and the future of teacher education
  • Gamification of learning
• Multimodal assessment micro-credentials, etc.

Leadership and management in distance teacher education

• Quality assurance and enhancement:
  •  Ensuring quality in education
  • Quality processes and mechanisms in distance teacher education
• Leadership for sustainable partnerships and collaborations
• Closing the gap between policy and practice
• Geopolitical challenges to leading and managing distance education