Dr. Cosmas B. F. Mnyanyi

Dr. Cosmas B. F. Mnyanyi is head of Department of Psychology and Special Education and he is also a Head of Assistive Special Technologies Unit (ASTU) at the Open University of Tanzania. Dr. Mnyanyi his background is on Science and Mathematics Education and later studied a Master degree in Special Education in 2005 and PhD Degree in Special Education at Åbo Akademi University, Vaasa-Finland in 2014. Dr. Mnyanyi is currently involved in researching and implementing ICT for visually impaired and blind people and ICT for the hearing impaired and deaf people in Tanzania. Dr. Mnyanyi has worked in educational institutions under different posts and at different times holding capacities that include a classroom teacher, a teacher educator, instructional supervisor, school inspector, ICT technician, ICT teacher Educator, ICT for the deaf, ICT for visually impaired persons, consultant, project evaluation, baseline survey, research, action research, ICT user and educator and educational administrator. Dr. Cosmas Mnyanyi started teaching profession in 1990.