COVID-19 EXPERIENCE IN REMOTE TEACHING HELP NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES EXPAND ONLINE SERVICES IN FUTURE

COVID-19 has been tough for all Nigerian higher education institutions, their staff and students, but one bright spark has been the fact that universities have developed remote learning capacities that will stand them in good stead for the future. One university that has used Covid-19 to evaluate and improve its remote learning systems is the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), a public university based in Ife, east of Ibadan. It has a Centre for Distance Learning, which was established as long ago as 2002 and which was able to operate during the height of the ...


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