Welcome
The ICED24 Conference under the theme “Advancing Higher Education Ecosystems for Competency Development” will be hosted by The Association for Faculty Enrichment in Learning and Teaching (AFELT). It is scheduled to take place from June 5 - 7, 2024 at the United States International University - Africa in Nairobi, Kenya.
Teaching and learning continue to change. COVID-19 Pandemic closures and the post pandemic learning experiences have expanded the thinking around facilitating learning. For example, learning facilitators were immersed in a new learning environment that required balancing traditional and technology-enhanced teaching approaches to facilitate learning. New competencies - of instructors and learners - were built through doing, observing, and creating new knowledge. More demands were made on how we manage the new learning environments, and more players entered the educational ecosystem. Our understanding of what our learners need has also been shifting.
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CONFERENCE THEME
Advancing Higher Education Ecosystems for Competency Development
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
DIRECTOR
DONNA ELLIS
Dr Donna Ellis is the Director of the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo in Canada.
PROFESSOR
ANGELA OWUSU-ANSAH
Angela brings more than thirty years of experience in education in Africa and the United States; and is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi education honor society.
PROFESSOR
MIKE KURIA
Prof. Mike Kuria is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Commission for University Education (CUE) in Kenya.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MAYS IMAD
Mays is a Gardner Institute Fellow and an AAC&U Senior Fellow within the Office of Undergraduate STEM Education. Dr. Imad’s research focuses on stress, self-awareness, advocacy, and classroom community, and how these impact student learning and success.
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
KASTURI BEHARI-LEAK
Dr Kasturi Behari-Leak is Associate Professor in Higher Education Studies and Dean of the Centre for Higher Education Development at the University of Cape Town.
About the Hosts
ICED promotes educational and academic development in higher education worldwide. ICED is the only forum of its kind, bringing together an international community of educational/academic developers and their network organisations. Membership is open to eligible network organisations, and comes with various benefits for network leaders and general members. The ICED Council is formed by Presidents, or their representatives, from each Member Network.
ICED has 27 Member Networks from all over the world.
Every second year, one of ICED's Member Networks is chosen by the ICED Council to hold the ICED Conference. In 2024, this conference will take place in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by the Association for Faculty Enrichment in Learning and Teaching (AFELT). Read more...
AFELT seeks to enhance scholarship of learning, teaching, and life-long learning for academic staff through collaboration with similar or complementary individuals and organizations. The Association does this by bringing together professionals in higher education and offers opportunity for the exploration of development initiatives that will promote the quality of learning in higher education in the East African region.
AFELT therefore offers opportunities for professionals in higher education to network, research, and share best practice by providing a forum for capacity building.
Our vision is to be a transformational body for quality learning and teaching in higher education in East Africa. We are achieving this vision by facilitating professional development for academic staff in higher education. Read more...
International Journal for Academic Development (IJAD)
Members of the IJAD editorial team will facilitate online sessions between May 27 and 30.
Participants will end the retreat having spent considerable time writing, will have received focused feedback on their evolving writing project, and will have established a post-retreat writing plan. Details about the retreat and registration are found on the link below.
PLEASE REGISTER BY MAY 10, 2024.
The IJAD editorial team invites participants to a pre-conference workshop that will be held on June 4, 2024, at USIU-Africa, Nairobi, the venue for the ICED24 Conference.