Bopelo Boitshwarelo

A senior fellow of the Advance Higher Education (formerly the UK Higher Education Academy), Bopelo Boitshwarelo has over 23 years working in the university sector both across Australia and overseas. He has primarily worked in educational/academic development roles with a particular focus on online and distance learning. Bopelo has been involved in cross-institutional initiatives such as the South Australia and Northern Territory Peer Excellence Network (SANTPEN), a network promoting capacity building in SoTL. He has also been an AAUT assessor since 2018, assessing national teaching awards. On the research front, Bopelo's publications are in the general areas of online and blended learning, learning design and academic development, and they include conference papers, journal articles and a book chapter. He has also been involved in reviewing journal articles, notably Studies in Higher Education and International Research Review Online and Distance Learning (IRRODL) and International Journal of Academic Development. Online and blended learning, learning design and academic development

[2024] Boitshwarelo, B., & Jayasinghe, M. (2024). Enhancing online teaching of business statistics: a pedagogy before technology approach. International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 25(1), 240-254. [2023] Boitshwarelo, B., Armstrong, M., Hynes, K., & Stack, A. (2023). Understanding university teachers' online pedagogies through teaching analytics: what are the possibilities?. In Ascilite 2023 Conference Proceeding 40th International Conference on Innovation Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education (pp. 291-295). Open Access Publishing Association.