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Dr. Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi

Dr. Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi

Quality Enhancement in Higher Education

About

Dr. Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi – EdD, University of Sheffield, UK

Dr Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi is the Senior Programme Officer and Head of the Quality Assurance Unit (QAU) at the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies. Her responsibilities include leading the implementation of the UWI quality policy on the campus, and furthering implementation of the policies of the Board for Undergraduate Studies, The University of the West Indies.

Prior to joining the QAU, Dr Thurab-Nkhosi was Faculty Development Specialist in the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at the St Augustine Campus. At CETL she was involved in strategic planning for the CETL, teaching, research and course reviews. Dr Thurab-Nkhosi has been involved in online and blended learning for almost two decades. She was a Curriculum Development Specialist at the University of the West Indies, Open Campus. She drafted the 2012 Policy for Blended Learning on the St Augustine Campus and led the blended learning activities of the campus resulting in a 34% increase in the number of blended courses between 2012 and 2016.

Her primary areas of research have been quality in online and blended learning and curriculum reform. Her research spans the topics of policy and implementation of online and blended learning, quality assurance in open and distance learning, student satisfaction in online learning, preparation of staff for online and blended learning, teaching in the online environment and curriculum reform for continuous quality improvement. She has written several book chapters and articles in referred and non-referred journals.

She is a member of several professional organisations and serves as Chair of the Curriculum and Pedagogical Reform and Access (CPR&A) Strategic Sub-Committee of The UWI St Augustine’s Strategic Plan Implementation Committee.

Publications

Book Chapters and Monographs

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2021. Curriculum Renewal for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean In Caribbean Quality Culture: Persistent Commitment to Improving Higher Education, edited by Sandra Gift . https://www.uwipress.com/9789766408398/caribbean-quality-culture/

Valdez, K. and Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2018. Academic Developers as Disruptors: Reshaping the Instructional Design Process. In Reimagining curriculum: spaces for disruption, edited by Lynn Quinn . https://www.amazon.com/Re-imagining-Curriculum-disruption-Lynn-Quinn/dp/1928480381

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

Thurab-Nkhosi, D., Maharaj, C. & Ramadhar, V.  2021. The impact of emergency remote teaching on a blended engineering course: perspectives and implications for the future. SN Soc Sci 1, 159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-021-00172-z

Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, Gwendoline Williams, Maria Mason-Roberts. 2019. New Approaches to Authentic Assessment: 
A Case Study with Advice for Administrators. Journal of Arts, Science and Technology (JAST) Vol.12, Special Issue No. 1.

http://www.utech.edu.jm/academics/sgsre/publications-1/journal-of-arts-science-and-technology-jast-vol-12-special-issue-no-1-2019/view

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2019. “The evaluation of a blended faculty development course using the CIPP Framework” International Journal of Education and Development using ICT Vol. 15, No. 1(2019) [http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu/viewarticle.php?id=2539]

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2018. “Implementing a Blended/Online Learning Policy on a Face-to-Face Campus: Perspectives of Administrators and Implications for Change” Journal of Learning for Development Vol 5, No 2 (2018) [ http://www.jl4d.org/index.php/ejl4d/article/view/273/304]

Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi, Gwendoline Williams, Maria Mason-Roberts. 2018.  “Achieving confidence in competencies through authentic assessment”, Journal of Management Development, Vol. 37 Issue: 8, pp.652-662, https://doi.org/10.1108/JMD-12-2017-0413

 

Conferences

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2020. From Face to Face to Online Teaching: Developing a “Road Map”  Presentation at The Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (CANQATE) Webinar Series, 2020 Thursday, November 26, 2020. 7.00pm . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUu7tZDJ6bw

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2020 Virtual Learning and the Future Normal.  Presentation at the World Science Day commemorative panel discussion on Virtual Learning organized by the Faculty of Science and Technology UWI, St Augustine on Thursday 12th November 1-2pm. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=392197138641386&ref=watch_permalink

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2019. Internal Quality Assurance Frameworks and Organisational Transformation. Presented at the Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (CANQATE) Webinar, July 24, 2019.

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2019 . Changing Organisational Culture: The Role of Administrators in Transforming a Higher Education Institution. Presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA), July 11-13 2019, Royalton Hotel, Negril, Jamaica.

Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2019. Towards Curriculum Reorientation for Sustainability. Presented at the UWI Biennial Conference, 19-21 February 2019 at the School of Education, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

 

Dr. Dianne Thurab-Nkhosi