Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams

Emeritus Associate Professor Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams taught Online Learning Design, Advanced Research Design and Researching Higher Education courses to postgraduate students and supervised Masters and PhD students in Educational Technology, Open Education and Higher Education Studies.

She holds a PhD in computer-assisted learning and has taught and supervised in the field of information communication technologies (ICTs) in education since 1994, first at the University of Pretoria, then at Rhodes University in Grahamstown and then at UCT. In addition she was the Principal Investigator of the IDRC-funded Research in Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D) project which investigated the adoption and impact of the use of open educational resources in 21 countries in the Global South. She is an advisor on the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) project, the former Principal Investigator of, and now an advisor on, the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project that is investigating the readiness towards open learning of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and Higher Education (HE) institutions in South Africa. She was a UNESCO Chair of Open Education and Social Justice. In November 2019 Cheryl was awarded the Open Education Consortium Leadership Award and was interviewed for Leaders and Legends of Online Learning podcast. Cheryl took early retirement at the end of January 2020, but is still active as a consulting researcher and an Open Education and Social Justice advocate.

Education

• Master of Education (MEd) Computer-based Education University of Pretoria/Universiteit van Pretoria (1992 — 1993)
• BEd (Honours) University of the Witwatersrand (1990 — 1991)
• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Higher Diploma in Education (Senior Primary) Rhodes University (1980 — 1983)