Mpho-Entle Modise

Biography

Mpho-Entle Puleng Modise(PhD) is a multi-award-winning Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, College of Education at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Her teaching background includes undergraduate and postgraduate courses in large classes in an open distance and e-learning (ODEL) institution. She has experience and knowledge of teaching with e-portfolios in higher education and high school.

Her research areas include faculty and student support, open distance e-learning (ODeL), academic professional development, educational technology integration and adoption, and e-portfolios. She is also interested in massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education resources (OERs). She has developed an OER addressing the use of e-portfolios in teaching and learning. Mpho-Entle is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Computers in Education (IJCE), Journal of Educational Technology and Online Learning (JETOL), Journal of Online Learning Studies (Jour-OLS) and Transformation in Higher Education.

She is also a member of the South Africa Education Research Association (SAERA) executive committee, representing the needs and interests of Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in South Africa and other African countries. She received two prestigious awards for her outstanding PhD thesis from SAERA and the Education Association of South Africa (EASA) in 2022. She also received the 2022 Women in Research Emerging Researcher Award for Excellence in Research at the University of South Africa.