Mmabaledi Kefilwe Seeletso

Biography

Dr. Mmabaledi Kefilwe Seeletso (nee Mogalakwe) was born and raised in Mahalapye, a town in Central Botswana. She is married with two sons. She is currently a Lecturer and Head of Department, in the Department of Educational Management and Leadership at Botswana College of Distance and Open Learning (BOCODOL). Dr. Seeletso specialises in issues related to Open and Distance Learning content planning, design and development, as well as assessment of tertiary programmes for teacher education. Her key experience spans the following areas of specialisation: Pastoral care: which involves planning, managing, monitoring and evaluating the academic progress of distance learning students at tertiary level. Planning and organisational assignment, resulting in annual work plans for the operations of Teacher Education and Educational Management and Leadership, including issues of administration and governance. She has worked in an open and distance learning environment for nineeen years. Dr. Seeletso read for her Degree in Humanities and Post Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of Botswana in 1996 and 1997 respectively. She then read for her MA in Educational Management which she obtained in 2004, from the University of Bath, in the United Kingdom. Seeletso acquired her PhD from the University of Pretoria in 2016. Dr. Seeletso enjoys sharing both her time and services with less fortunate members of our society. She has been a member of the Botswana Young Women’s Christian Association since 1995 and served as its national President from 2004 to 2008. She was a recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship, during which she served at the University of Denver as a visiting scholar from August 2017 to January 2018. She is also the University of Bath Ambassador in Botswana and a member of the UKRI International Peer Review College