TESSA materials and approaches have received positive feedback from teacher educators, teachers and pupils across the consortium. But how can optimal teacher learning be facilitated? This theme explores how TESSA – and other OERs - might be more fully embedded and established in teacher education across the region.

Papers, presentations and publications

• Training teachers for inclusive education. Amivi-Cra Komlam and Michele Deane
• In pursuit of quality: challenges and opportunities for teacher education. Kris Stutchbury
• Femmes et TIC en Afrique Michèle Deane
• New modes of communication technologies and the reform of open and distance learning programmes: A response to the global crisis in teacher education and training  Frank Banks, Bob Moon and Freda Wolfenden, 2009 
• Building new modes of teacher education: research  analyses for the Teacher in Education in Sub Saharan Africa programme Freda Wolfenden, 2008 
• The role of new communication technologies and distance education in responding to the global crisis in teacher supply and training: an analysis of the research and development experience  Bob Moon
• Promoting gender inclusion in a distance learning course to increase female recruitment to teaching  Freda Wolfenden and Patricia Murphy, 2013
• Reconsidering the evidence base, considering the rural: aiming for a better understanding of the education and training needs of Sub-Saharan African teachers  Alison Buckler, 2011
• Every child needs a teacher: The primary teacher supply and training crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa  Bob Moon and Brendan O’Malley, 2008
• Conceptualising a research agenda: Teachers and the development of rural communities Bob Moon and Alison Buckler, 2007