Brief Bio of the Workshop Facilitator, Prof Kuzvinetsa Peter Dzvimbo

. Prof Kuzvinetsa Patrick Dzvimbo is currently the Deputy Vice Chancellor: Academic and Research, at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT). . Prior to his appointment as Deputy Vice Chancellor at the VUT, he served as the founding Executive Dean of the College of Education at the University of South Africa. . During his tenure at UNISA he was seconded to the Department of Basic Education to lead the conceptualisation of the Centre for Continual Professional Development of school principals. . He previously served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences at the Rands Afrikaans University, and Professor and Head of the Department of Educational Management at the University of Johannesburg. . He has extensive international experience as an academic, having previously held teaching and research positions at the Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria; University of Wisconsin-Madison in the USA; University of ; and the University of the Witwatersrand. . He similarly has extensive academic leadership experience, which includes serving as: (a) Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Zimbabwe; (b) Pro-Vice Chancellor responsible for open and distance learning, research, student affairs, international relations, honorary degrees and curriculum development and implementation, also at the University of Zimbabwe; (c) founding Vice Chancellor of the ; and (d) Rector of the African Virtual University (AVU), based in Nairobi, Kenya for six years. . As Rector of the AVU, he led and managed the development of open educational resources (OERs) in Science and Mathematics for teacher education in ten African Countries. During the same period, he worked with fifteen Francophone, Lusophone and Anglophone African countries in the field of ICTs in higher education. . He has consulted for many African countries and bilateral and multilateral organisations such as UNESCO, the World Bank, USAID, DfID, UNICEF, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy-Pretoria, on matters related to ICTs in education, distance and open learning strategic planning and management, teacher education, and programme monitoring and evaluation in education. He has worked in a number of Educational Departments in SA as a consultant in strategic management and in educational leadership training in Mpumalanga Province. . While in the World Bank as a Senior Education Specialist, he worked in the Caribbean, , and in higher education. During the same period, he also worked with the London-based “Borderless in Higher Education’ organisation. . He has presented papers at international conferences on higher education in many African countries and in Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, and Australia.

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. He obtain his PhD in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin- Madison in the United States of America. His other qualifications include a Master of Education degree in Administration and Planning from Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria; a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of ; and a Bachelor of Arts Degree, also from the University of Sierra Leone. He did his post-doctoral studies at Stanford University, USA and did a course in Computer Applications in Educational Planning at the School of Education-Harvard University, USA. . He has researched and published extensively in the areas of teacher education, change management in higher education, ICTs and open and distance learning, educational leadership and management, educational planning, and transformation in higher education and the public sector. . He is the past Chief Editor of the African Education Review Journal, and the past Africa Regional Editor of The International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education as well as a past editorial board member of the British journal: Teaching in Higher Education. . Prof Dzvimbo is a member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education based in Moscow. He is also currently a member of the Zimbabwe Council of Higher Education (ZimCHE).

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