The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) International Center for Higher Education Innovation, has trained 50 lecturers across five Tertiary Institutions in digital education.
This was disclosed in a statement by the Public Affairs Directorate, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Malam Auwalu, on Thursday in Zaria.
Umar said the initiative was in collaboration with the International Institute for Online Education.
He said the training is aimed at strengthening digital transformation of higher education teaching and learning.
Umar said the training is focused on general courses in three thematic areas of engineering/computing, medical/bioscience, as well as humanities/social sciences.
He said the beneficiaries, comprisied of 32 males and 18 females, who were drawn from the ABU, University of Abuja, Gombe State University, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai, and Federal College of Education, Zaria.
The Directorate said the three-day training was hosted by the Department of Computer Engineering, ABU, with Prof. Paul Prinsloo, from the University of South Africa, as facilitator.
Umar said UNESCO-ICHEI initiated a global project on the ‘Digital Transformation of Teaching and Learning’ following the UNESCO World Higher Education Conference.
He added that on September 28, UNESCO-ICHEI and IIOE, Nigeria National Centre, jointly launched a project on “Empowering Institutional Policy Implementation for Digital Teaching and Learning in Nigeria.”
He said; “The project is to, among others, support implementation of institutional policies for digital teaching and learning in Nigerian higher education institutions, using the ABU’s teaching and learning policy, as a case study.’’
“It is also to empower IIOE Nigeria National Centre, to undertake digital literacy enhancement programmes, required to drive the digital transformation of higher education teaching and learning.”