Digital Teacher Professional Development in Education in Displacement (EiD) Settings: Access, equity, and quality

This report is a first step in our search for solutions to deliver digital teacher professional development (TPD) to teachers in displacement contexts, equitably, inclusively, and at a scale commensurate with the need to ensure that educators everywhere have continuous, quality, holistic professional learning opportunities.

By reflecting on our experiences working with a group of educators serving displaced and refugee learners and by reviewing the open access offers provided by large, international organisations, we identify limitations among existing solutions, many of which are not fully responsive to the needs of teachers in low-resource contexts who might be looking for professional development opportunities.

The ecosystem of education in displacement (EiD) is complex and lacking in sufficient resources at all levels. Therefore, sustainable and scalable access to digital TPD requires comprehensive solutions that make use of resources embedded across the ecosystem: starting from teacher motivation and leadership, continuing on to national-level policy support and global contributions of international organisations and funders, and including actors in the open educational resource (OER) community