Dr Eric Addae-Kyeremeh has over 20 years professional experience that involves teaching, training, knowledge transfer, scholarship and research. He has significant experience, knowledge and understating of academic standards of taught postgraduate qualifications and has held external examining positions on postgraduate qualifications at other UK higher education institutions. His expertise extends to capacity building, organisational development and learning technologies. He was admitted into Fellowship by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT in 2012 for demonstrating leadership, eminence and authority in the area of educational technologies. In recognition of his expertise, significant impact and contribution to leadership and management in education and training he was awarded Chartered Fellowship by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) in the same year.
Eric is currently a Senior Lecturer in Educational Leadership and Management and has been the Associate Head of School- Innovation since 2016. As Associate Head of School, he has overall responsibility for teaching and learning innovation, business development, and a portfolio of international education and development projects. Prior to this role, he was Associate Programme Director (Postgraduate Studies) in the Faculty of Education and Langauge Studies here at the Open University with responsibility for the academic leadership of the postgraduate programmes, and for its strategic planning and development. He contributes to a number of university committees and steering groups including the Digital Strategy Steering Group (DSSG), Microcredentials Steering Group, EDI Steering Group and Student Hub Live (SHL) Steering Group.
Prior to joining the Open University in 2011, Eric worked in the Further Education (FE) sector in England from 2000-2010, firstly as a lecturer in Computing and ICT and then in a range of leadership and management positions. During his career in FE he led and managed a number of subject areas including Science and Mathematics; Information and Communication Technology; and Business, Administration and Law.
Dr Addae-Kyeremeh's research interests are broadly leadership and management of education, teacher/headteacher professional learning across cultures and contexts, and on distance learning forms of teacher education in low-middle income countries. His research also focus on exploring learning and development of education practitioners across contexts and education phases by offering contextual understandings and constructs that are meaningful and practical to policy makers and change leaders. He has investigated teachers/headteachers professional development experiences in England, India and Ghana and has written and presented academic papers on some of these areas at International conferences. Browse Dr Addae-Kyeremeh's research on Open Research Online.
Eric’s principal areas of interest for doctoral research supervision include:
2020 - date An evaluation and exploratory study of the Learn through Play (LtP) model in the Partners in Play Project (P3) in Ghana.
This is an evaluation and exploratory study of RTP’s Learn through Play (LtP) model and to provide evidence that can be used to inform policy to improve quality education for Ghanaian girls and boys aged 4-12.
Funder: Right To Play | Collaborator: University of Cape Coast (Ghana) | Grant: 500,000 Canadian Dollars | Role: Co-investigator
2018 - date OpenSTEM Africa: Ghana
This is a 3-year programme funded to support Senior High School STEM education in Ghana. The programme will support the effective teaching and learning of practical science in Senior High Schools in Ghana by (i) creating a Virtual Lab of practical science apps, which helps provide more opportunities for learners to engage with practical science; (ii) professional development for teachers to develop effective ICT-based teaching and learning approaches;(iii) professional support for heads of science to help improve the experiential teaching and learning of the practical science syllabus.
Funder: OPITO | Collaborator: CENDLOS | Grant: £600,000 | Role: Joint PI and Technical Lead for school leadership programme
2014-16 Enhancing higher education teaching and learning in Bangladesh: Fostering the pedagogical knowledge, teaching skills and research capabilities of early career academics. Part of the International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education (Inspire) Project.
Funder: British Council | Collaborator: University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh | Grant: £12,000 | Role: Joint PI with Dr Mahruf Shohel (ex-OU)
Eric's teaching primarily focuses on leadership and management in education and has contributed to several of the OUs Masters in Education modules. Between 2011 and 2015 he co-authored four masters modules: E855 Leading professional practice in education, E856 Educational leadership: context, strategy and collaboration, EE812 Educational leadership: exploring strategy and EE813 MA Ed dissertation: leadership and management. Dr Addae-Kyeremeh is also co-author of the popular badged open course (BOC), Succeeding in postgraduate study, a free course designed to offer essential preparation for pursuing masters level study.
Eric has expertise in providing technical assistance to policy makers in LMIC and leading large scale international projects. He worked as OU Academic Director of the DfID-funded Transforming Teacher Education and Learning (T-TEL) programme in Ghana 2014 -2015. He was also the critical reviewer of the recent national policy and curriculum framework for Pre-Tertiary Education Curriculum (2018) in Ghana. He previously co-led the school leadership development strand of TESS-India, a £10million DfID funded programme across 7 states in India.
He is currently a Technical Advisor and Researcher on the OpenSTEM Africa project in Ghana providing high level policy guidance as well as leading on the development and implementation of CPD for teachers and middle leaders in senior high schools.
Eric is currently working on a BBC/OU radio series Project 17 as Academic Consultant with Professor Giles Mohan (OU) and Dr Aravinda Guntupalli (Aberdeen). This co-production is based on the United Nations 17 sustainable development goals (SDG) and will be a 17 part broadcast series on BBC World Service. Each SDG will be examined from the perspective of a different nation and expressed through the lives of 17-year-olds as they challenge the experts on what action (and inaction) will mean for their futures.
Eric has a range of international links that have been established through his research collaborations and international development work. Most notably, he worked with the Arab OU Education Faculty (2011-2015) as Academic Reviewer with responsibility for the quality assurance and support for their MEd Instructional Technology, MEd Leadership and Management and BEd programmes.
Eric is often invited to panel discusions and as guest speaker on a range of issues that relate to education policy, educational leadership and teacher professional development. The following are examples of his contributions:
Name | Type | Parent Unit |
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CREET: Educational Studies Research Cluster | Cluster | Faculty of Education and Language Studies |
What makes useful evidence for educational leadership practice? An interview (2018)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric and Fox, Alison
Management in Education, 32(1) (pp. 53-55)
Teachers’ access to and use of evidence. (2020-03-16)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In: Fox, Alison and Poultney, Val eds. Professional Learning Communities and Teacher Enquiry. Evidence-based Teaching for Enquiring Teachers (1) (pp. 80-92)
ISBN : 9781912508815 | Publisher : Critical Publishing | Published : St Albans
Understanding teachers’ working experiences: capturing data on teachers as professionals, learners and change-makers in low resource contexts (2017-09-05)
Moore, Rhiannon; Buckler, Alison; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Singh, Renu; Rossiter, Jack and High, Chris
In : Young Lives and RITES (OU) symposium (5-7 Sep 2017, Oxford, UK)
Connectedness and organisational learning: The role of relationships in supporting headteacher professional development (2017-07-09)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Annual Conference (7-9 Jul 2017, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK)
Professional learning through networking: perceptions and practices amongst basic school headteachers in Ghana (2015-07)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS) Annual Conference (10-12 Jul 2015, Reading, UK)
School-based learning and development: revisiting professional development for headteachers in India (2014-11-17)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric and Wise, Christine
In : Exploring Leadership Learning and Theories in Asia (ELLTA) 2014 (17-19 Nov 2014, Penang, Malaysia)
Leadership development at scale to support policy: experiences from the TESS India project- a UKAID project (2014-07-11)
Wise, Christine; Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Anand, Kavita and Wheeler, Spokey
In : International Conference of British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (7-11 Jul 2014, Stratford-Upon-Avon)
Professional development spaces: an exploratory study of headteachers perspectives in Ghana (2014-06)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : 3rd AFTRA Teaching and Learning in Africa Conference (11-13 Jun 2014, Accra, Ghana)
Messengers or agents? The capacity of headteachers to influence educational policy change in Ghana. (2012-07-20)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : Annual International Conference of British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (20-22 Jul 2012, Manchester)
Learning-centred leadership: practices and effects. (2012-07-10)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
In : International Council on Education for Teaching conference (10-12 Jul 2012, Cape Coast. Ghana.)
Designing and developing educational resources for teacher education via Open and Distance Learning (ODL), A case study from Ghana
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric; Cullen, Jane and Abreh, Might Kojo
In : SEDO conference Theme: Promoting Innovative Educational Practices for Sustainable Development (29-30 Jan, Cape Coast, Ghana)
The Role of Networking in Supporting Headteachers' Professional Development and Practice in Ghana (2020-04-30)
Addae-Kyeremeh, Eric
edd thesis The Open University