Unleashing Adult Learners’ Numeracy Agency Through Self-Determined Online Professional Development

Opportunities for self-determined online professional development (OPD) are emerging, but their potential increasing adult learners’ agency is not yet fully realised. Faced with the problem of successfully designing a comprehensive evidence-based numeracy resource educators who often time poor and do engage learning unless they intrinsically motivated, we engaged in design research to conceptualise Birth Level 10 Numeracy Guide families. The fosters educators’ capability across focus areas from birth level (16-year-olds). This extensive OPD incorporates consistent elements, double-looped learning, nonlinear self-reflection, metacognition activities foster pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) through experiential learning. With section dedicated families, provides suggestions advice parents carers on everyday, authentic develop children young people’s understandings at home local community. As education systems continue grapple disruption brought about by COVID-19 pandemic, timely, freely accessed, viable, scalable option providing low-cost OPD.