Building Sustainable Communities of Practice Through Mentor-Supported OER Development: An Iterative Approach in Pacific STEM Education

Grey, Amanda and Betty, Ogange and Chand, Rajni K. and Agrawal, Ashish (2025) Building Sustainable Communities of Practice Through Mentor-Supported OER Development: An Iterative Approach in Pacific STEM Education. [Conference Proceedings]

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Abstract

This paper examined a data-driven approach to teacher professional development implemented by the Commonwealth of Learning and the Pacific Centre for Flexible and Online Learning for Development across Solomon Islands, Tonga and Fiji in 2024. The blended workshop series was structured into three phases: pre-workshop engagement where participants enrolled in online courses and completed surveys; in-workshop co-creation incorporating participatory learning with mentor-facilitated activities and structured feedback cycles; and post-workshop community participation involving follow-up surveys and ongoing community activities on science, technology engineering and mathematics. Through systematic collection and analysis of participant and mentor feedback, we continuously refined the two-day blended workshop model to better serve the needs of teachers of science, technology engineering and mathematics. The iterative improvement process revealed crucial insights about technology access, mentorship requirements and community building in Pacific contexts. Our experience demonstrates how evidence

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Uncontrolled Keywords:	iterative design, teacher development, blended workshop, open educational resourses(OER), mentorship, communities of practice
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Centre for Flexible Learning (CFL)
Depositing User:	Nirma Narayan
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2026 03:20
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2026 03:48
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/15233

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