The Vice Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria, Professor Abdalla Uba Adamu, has urged academic staff of the institution to actively engage the students and make the institution’s e-learning activities interactive.
While disclosing this on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, during the inauguration ceremony of NOUN Oracle Academy organised by the Department of Computer Science, Adamu stated that “Any lecturer in the National Open University of Nigeria who failed to interact with their students via online facilitation should either look for a College of Education to go and teach or resign and start selling foodstuff in the market.”
While making the call, the VC queried why all lecturers were not interfacing with their students regularly in online facilitation.
He stressed that no NOUN lecturer had any excuse whatsoever not to have online interaction with their students on a regular basis.
The vice-chancellor disclosed that the university had provided all the necessary facilities and structures to enable its academic staff to interface with their students via online facilitation regularly.
He noted that NOUN, as the foremost Open and Distance Learning university in West Africa, had set up the Directorate of Learning Contents Management System to create enabling platforms for seamless online facilitation.
He stated further that NOUN by its foundational philosophy and mode of operation was never meant to be hindered in discharging its responsibilities as world-class ODL institutions even in lockdown situations as is obtained during this Covid-19 crisis if its academic staff are up and doing.
He added that the university would put necessary machinery in motion to monitor and ensure that all academic staff of the university maintain regular interaction with their students during this Covid-19 lockdown and beyond.
