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midwifery education underinvested developing countries limited opportunities midwifery educators improvemaintain core professional competencies improve quality midwifery education capacity educators update competencies blended midwifery educatorspecific continuous professional development cpd programme designed key stakeholders study evaluated feasibility programme kenya nigeria mixed methods intervention study using concurrent nested design 120 randomly selected midwifery educators 81 preservice training institutions recruited educators completed four selfdirected online learning sdl modules threeday practical training blended cpd programme teaching methods theory clinical skills assessments effective feedback digital innovations teaching learning pre posttraining knowledge using multiple choice questions sdl confidence 04 likert scale practical skills preparing teaching plan microteaching checklist measured differences knowledge confidence skills analysed participants reaction programme relevance satisfaction assessed 04 likert scale liked challenges collected key informant interviews nursing midwifery councils institutions managers conducted thematic framework analysis conducted qualitative data 116 967 108 90 educators completed sdl practical components respectively mean knowledge scores sdl modules improved 524 104 804 81 preparing teaching plan median scores improved 636 iqr 455 818 iqr 273 confidence applying selected pedagogy skills improved 27 37 p 0001 participants rated sdl practical components programme high relevance satisfaction median 4 4 training 514 579 participants scored 75 higher preparing teaching plans microteaching assessments country training institution type educator characteristics significant associations overall competence preparing teaching plans microteaching p 005 qualitatively educators found programme educative flexible convenient motivating interactive learning internet connectivity computer technology costs time constraints potential challenges completing programme programme feasible effective improving knowledge skills educators effective teachinglearning successful rollout policy framework mandatory midwifery educator specific cpd programme needed