Scaling innovations for teacher development in the Commonwealth
The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) recently organised a hybrid workshop involving key partners in its Teacher Education initiative to explore current and planned action in scaling innovations for teacher development where teacher shortages are still prevalent in many...
Makoe, Nkwenti, Oyekale, Banjoko as discussants for RETRIDOL’s September discourse
The Regional Training & Research Institute for Distance and Open Learning (RETRIDOL), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has concluded arrangements for the September edition of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) monthly discourse. This month’s lecture...
Connecting quality assurance and employability for a future-ready workforce
In the context of emerging complexities in the world of work, and the challenges of graduate unemployment arising from the mismatch between degrees and the skills required to respond, adapt, and thrive in an ever-changing work environment, educators must pause and ask if learners are fit for purpose. Are we equipping learners with the hard and soft skills they would require for this new era of rapid, unpredictable change?
DEA helmsman to present RETRIDOL’s August lecture
The Regional Training & Research Institute for Distance and Open Learning (RETRIDOL), National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), has concluded arrangements for the August edition of the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) monthly discourse. In a press statement...
Experts challenge Africans to acquire digital literacy for future competitiveness
As the world continues to witness evident changes in technology-driven work and employment, panelists at the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) Monthly Discourse have called on every African to be digitally literate in order not to be left behind in the 21st Century...