The Compendium is an output from the activities of the TPD@Scale Coalition. It offers examples of ICT-mediated teacher professional development (TPD) in large, or potentially scalable, programmes across low and middle income countries. It describes the key features of each programme, their context, the needs they seek to meet, how ICTs are deployed, and how the programme strives for equity in making available meaningful professional learning experiences for all teachers.

The Compendium is organised to illustrate how TPD developers have approached a specific ‘at scale’ design challenge in different, often innovative ways depending on the context, professional learning needs of the teachers, and resources available.  Many programmes exemplify a number of these challenges. Throughout, the focus is on what can be achieved at scale across different settings whilst paying attention to TPD@Scale features of quality, equity, and efficiency.

Open the Compendium (2.5 MB) . Read the Introduction and the following section on ‘ICT-mediated TPD’.

As you read, keep in mind how your own TPD context may, or may not, reflect the points made about:

• Magnitude and variation
• The extent to which interactive learning materials can replace in-person experiences
• The extent to which TPD can involve teachers themselves in the learning design and delivery
• TPD design choices for ICTs
• the uses of ICTs to achieve equity (Figure 1 ‘Uses of ICTs in TPD@Scale programmes’)

You can make notes on your reading in your Personal Blog.

In the following activities, you will read sections of the Compendium about how diverse teacher professional development programmes in the Global South reflect distinctive core components and principles of TPD@Scale.