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Building Capacity for eLearning

Posted on February 7, 2012

As part of efforts in building capacity for distance learning, the Centre for Distance Learning OAU organised a three-day e-Learning workshop for over 50 OAU lecturers last week. The workshop started on Tuesday, 31st of January and ended on the 2nd of February. The lecturers were taken through various aspects of eLearning as covered, among others, in the following topics:

• Introduction to Instructional design for online courses
• Developing study guide for online courses
• Using blogging systems for academic purposes
• Preparing audio presentations for online courses
• Developing online course template
• Online course development using Moodle Learning management system
• Using online social networks for academic purposes
• Assessment of online students
• Preparing video presentations for online course

Before presenting the certificates of participation, the Director of the Centre, Prof. F.O.I. Asubiojo, commended the participation of the lecturers in the workshop as an indication of their interest to push the reach of education beyond the university walls in an online experience.