- Professor Dr Olaf Zawacki-Richter
- Dr Martha Fields Cleveland-Innes
- Professor Asha Singh Kanwar
- Dr Ruth Aluko
- Dr Tony Mays
- Professor Nyna Amin
- Professor Jako Olivier
- Professor Evrim Baran
- Dr Catherine Mkude
- Professor Santosh Panda
- Dr Mary Ooko
- Professor Cosmas Maphosa
- Dr Yulia Platonova
- Professor Mpine Makoe
- Dr Phumza Makgato-Khunou
- Professor Paul Henry Gundani
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Dr Tony Mays
Dr Tony Mays
Education Specialist
Open Schooling
Commonwealth of Learning
Canada
Dr Tony Mays is the current Education Specialist for Open Schooling at the Commonwealth of Learning in Vancouver, Canada and also the manager of the Journal of Learning for Development. He completed his undergraduate studies in the United Kingdom and then started his career as a secondary school teacher in Malawi, through a posting organised by the British charity Voluntary Service Overseas, in a school which supported both traditional full-time day scholars as well as non-traditional learners registered with the Malawi College of Distance Education. His interest in teaching and learning through both contact and distance education methods, as well as combinations thereof, continued throughout his subsequent career which increasingly focused on teacher development through distance education and then also about distance education, through work with Promat Colleges, Saide, the University of Pretoria and the University of South Africa. He is a former President of the National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa (NADEOSA), former Honorary Treasurer of the Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA) and former chair of the biennial Distance Education and Teachers Training in Africa (DETA) conference. Tony holds a DEd in Curriculum Studies from the University of South Africa.