Perspectives on Teacher Education in the Digital Age / Future Education and Learning Spaces (PDF)

Self-directed Learning, is focused on self-directed learning, multimodal learning, open educational resources, multi-literacies, micro-learning, individualized and contextualized blended learning, e-learning in language classrooms, and online multilingualism.
Avinash is Senior Lecturer at the Mauritius Institute of Education. He has been the head of Centre for Open and Distance Learning at the Mauritius Institute of Education from 2019 to 2021. He holds a doctoral degree in digitization of curriculum from University of KwaZulu-Natal and has been heading major educational technologies projects at national level, namely Sankoré and Early Digital Learning Programme. He spoke at the UNESCO World OER Congress in Paris (2012) on Sankoré. He has also brought forward innovative initiatives such as Codecraft, the national coding competition for Grade 9 students in Mauritius. Through this competition, his team has introduced concepts such as digital storytelling and robotics for education. He is also spearheading innovative EdTech projects funded by the Mauritius Research and Innovation Council. He has published and co-published papers in accredited journals in the field of technology and pedagogy. His keen interest is in finding innovative ways to enhance teaching and learning at various levels. Avinash also has a long working experience in the education sector. Avinash has some recent research that he has co-authored: . Designing remote education in a VUCA world (Pultoo and Oojorah in International Journal of Computers and Technology, 20, 45-52. . Climate monitoring using an Arduino-based mobile weather station and open source codes. Journal of Education and Social Sciences, 16 (1), 105-114 (Ujoodha, M., Pultoo, A., & Oojorah, A. (2020))

Dr. Waaiza Udhin is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Open and Distance learning Mauritius Institute of Education. She holds a Ph.D. in learning with technology from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. She also holds a Masters in Computer Mediated Communication and Pedagogies and from the University of Mauritius. She has been working as a primary educator for 7 years and as an academic at the Mauritius Institute of Education, a Higher Education Institution dedicated to Teacher Education, for more than 10 years. Waaiza has been lecturing modules in Curriculum Studies, Assessment & Evaluation and she has also serviced courses in Communication. . She is a member of the Higher Studies Cell of the institution that has mandate to research on the courses offered at the Mauritius Institute of Education. Since 2019, Waaiza is coordinating an innovative national project on using Tablet Technologies in Mauritian Primary Schools.Waaiza presented in many international conferences and won the award for best presenter in an international conference in 2017. She has published and co-published in accredited journals and conference proceedings. Her publications were mainly in the field of technology, education and curriculum development. Her research interests are in the field of Innovation and Education, Online Learning, Communication, Assessment & Evaluation, Curriculum Development. In 2020, Waaiza chaired two international webinars on 'Addressing the challenges caused by mass closure of schools during the Covid-19 pandemic- Lessons from international contexts' and 'Global perspectives of teachers' professional practice'.

Furthermore, both Avinash and Waaiza have contributed to the setting-up and implementation of remote teaching and learning in Mauritius for primary and secondary education during the lockdown periods due to the COVID 19 pandemic. They have researched and published on it in (Re) Learning to Teach in Contexts of Crises:
Sustaining education in a VUCA world: Experiences of higher education (re)designers of school curriculum in Mauritius- ISBN: 978-0-9869936-6-4
Dr Waaiza Udhin, Dr Vicky Avinash Oojorah, Dr Anand Pultoo