Opinion: ASUU President’s Fallacious Verdict On Virtual Learning, By Olabisi Deji-Folutile
The ASUU president may have to tell us what’s special about online teaching that makes him think it will take Nigerian lecturers, some of whom are among the best in the world, eternity to get reoriented to deliver it. I want to believe that the ASUU president was not speaking on behalf of the entire academic community on this.
“Many of us that teach in face-to-face arrangement we know the difficulties we face in explaining concepts, in illustrating presentations, so that dimension will be there. The quality in terms of content, in terms of presentation will be watered down. It will not work.
The leader of Nigeria’s tertiary academic community should not be giving a negative verdict on virtual teaching at a time when some countries are working hard to achieve better online teaching and learning in practical courses like medicine, engineering, etc. Universities are embracing education technology that allows the use of
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