Why Nigeria Can’t Run Full e-learning – NUC
BY TEMI OHAKWE, ABUJA – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said following the deficit of infrastructure, power, and internet access, Nigeria cannot operate 100 per cent e-learning.
The Deputy Executive Secretary of the Commission, Dr Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf, who disclosed this while chatting with journalists in Abuja, expressed the commission’s concern over integrity issues surrounding the operation of the mode of learning in the country.
Ramon-Yusuf stressed that e-learning must pass the integrity test before being fully embraced, saying; “we want to ensure that when there is e-learning in place, it would be run in such a manner that every student is accounted for, every student has an e-portfolio which enables everyone to know that it is this student that registered for this course and it is that same student that has been doing the assessment test and the examination; and that learning is taking place in an evidence basis.
He further aid; “We need to sit down and articulate the requirements for e-learning: materials, men and women, infrastructure; what should we put in place, how should we proceed; we can’t do e-learning today in Nigeria. What we can do is blended learning. Anybody who is making noise that e-learning must start tomorrow is either mischievous or ignorant”.
The NUC Deputy Executive Secretary also said that private open universities will come on board when all stakeholders are satisfied that the country has what it takes to guarantee quality and integrity of the e-learning programme, in order not to create a window for the proliferation of worthless certificates under e-learning.
