Avenelle Fortuné-Johnson entered the field of education at the operational level as a classroom teacher. In the three ensuing decades, she used current technologies to augment human capital development through her work with successive groups of education stakeholders. Her experiences range from interactions at the ECCE to the tertiary levels both locally and internationally.
She holds master’s degrees in Educational Leadership and Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Dayton and the University of New Brunswick, respectively. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) via the Project Management Institute: In her most recent PMP re-certification cycle, Artificial Intelligence was her key area of focus. She has pursued post graduate studies in Literacy Assessment and Literacy Materials Design. These studies included, inter alia, a focus on the use of technology to support literacy development. Her postgraduate level studies have also included training in the Management of Assessment in Virtual Learning Environments and Ph.D. level courses in Instructional Design and Educational Technology.
In her current role, she provides administrative oversight for the Educational Technology Unit at the Ministry of Education (MOE) to ensure the successful deployment and sustainability of e-learning at the secondary, primary and ECCE levels. The Unit’s core responsibilities include providing the Ministry of Education with strategic direction regarding digital and e-learning in the 21st century. To this end, the Unit supports MOE stakeholders with adoption of instructional and learning technologies as well as e-resources. The Unit also collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate exchanges of the data and skill required for efficacious resource and service provisioning. These liaisons facilitate progress tracking and sustained alignment with the policy direction of the MOE.
Through the fellowship programme, she aims to acquire competencies that will enable her to formulate the policy frameworks that would enable creative and strategic, yet safe, explorations of all that educational technology can afford.