The Kaduna State University, KASU, on Monday launched a state-of-the-art E-learning platform, while restating the institution’s commitment to ensuring a conducive learning atmosphere.
Speaking to newsmen at the sideline of the event, the Vice-Chancellor of KASU, Prof Abdullahi Musa, said the institution has in the last one year undertaken a participatory approach which made them come up with comprehensive strategic planning documents.
He added that one top agenda of the strategic planning was to come up with an information communication technology that would prove efficiency and effectiveness for their engagements in KASU.
Mr Musa, therefore, said the E-learning platform would enable KASU students access, and staff to deliver lectures wherever they are.
“The students can access lectures wherever they are regardless of time and space. For the lecturers that means they will adopt active learning rather than passive.
“It will improve the way our lectures teach and our students access lectures which will thereby post KASU amongst the top Universities globally. Adoption of the E-learning is non negotiable for us in Kaduna state,“ he said.
Also, Prof. Helen Andow, KASU’s Deputy V-C, Innovation, Strategy and Service Delivery, restated the dynamism in the 21st century.
She said that in order to meet up with the global trends, the institution could not do without E-learning.
Mrs Andow said that the E-learning platforms would enable students to recollect materials which were taught in their absence, and lecturers who would be absent could upload the materials for students to access.
She said that the E-learning platforms would ensure feasibility and enable the lecturers and students be able to compete favourably with other global counterparts.
On her part, Dr Fatima Kabir, the Technical Adviser to the KASU VC on E-learning, said the platform would be of great benefit to the institution.
“We are in a digital era. many sectors in the society have gone digital, what is left behind is the educational sector,”she said.
Mrs Kabir said that the educational sector had been very slow in tapping from the digital opportunity, adding that the E-learning platform would ensure less work for the lecturers and students.
“With the persisted increase in the cost of fuel, the lecturers wouldn’t have to come everyday which gives them time to do other things, which is in line with the state government,” she said.
Earlier, the Pro-Chancellor of the university, Hussaini Dikko, said E-learning was one among other platforms that would reposition the institution for better learning.
He assured the stakeholders that KASU would be abraised in updating the platform to make it one of the best in Nigeria.
“We want KASU to be a reference point for e-learning,” Mr Dikko said.
He urged the lectures and students of the institution to ensure the maximum utilisation of the platform for their educational development.
NAN
