By Wole Balogun
S.A Media to VC
Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof Sunday Abayomi Fasina has tasked academic staff in the institution on the need to acquire online skills and tools for their professional and personal development.
Speaking at the ICT Centre in Oye, Prof Fasina who was represented by the DVC Academics, Professor Olubunmi Shittu listed many advantages of online teaching in view of the rising population of students being admitted to the University. According to him, online teaching and learning methods have become inevitable, owing to the global changes in knowledge acquisition and educational development. Fasina stressed the importance of the ICT in the transmission of knowledge and skills, saying that online teaching has facilitated speedy learning with or without physical contacts. The VC observed that ICT based activities such as coding, digital marketing and audio visual display of information and services are some of the advantages of online applications. He noted further that online education is required because it saves costs, reduces traffic congestion, prevents overcrowding and reduces noise or air pollution, among other benefits.
Prof. Odo Ayodele, the chief resource person and Director of Online teaching, delivered a lecture on the Blended Learning Concept for trainees in Oye campus while Prof. Babatunde Omotosho, also delivered same lecture on Blended Learning Concept at the Ikole Campus, as a reminder to participants that only a balanced teaching between physical and online methods can promote quality education on our campuses.
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The two resource persons enjoined lecturers to embrace quality teaching through uniformity in presentation, setting high standards and being responsible for well researched contents.
Other resources persons such as Mr Seun Ojedeji and Mr. Samson Durojaye also delivered lectures on Learning management tools and how to enrol students for online lectures. They took the lecturers through the practical process of ensuring the foregoing processes.
