ODL is a strategy and
alternative to provide access to higher education, in addition
to traditional conventional face -to- face mode.
" It is important to enlighten all members of the university
community and the general public on the potential of DL as
an alternative mode of comparable standards and quality, in
the provision of access to university education, to qualified
candidates who may not otherwise have access due to the
limited carrying capacity and space constraints in the
conventional brick and mortar / face_to_face institutions",
revealed stressing that it was made worse because most
Nigerians prefer university to polytechnics, college of
education and others.
According to him, it was in an effort to make learning easily
accessible and flexible that ODL was established to
accommodate those who could not be admitted through the
regular learning method.
Dr. Yusuf who was a guest speaker at the seminar and ODL
Desk Officer in the NUC stressed that distance learning was
not inferior to the conventional face -to- face learning
neither was it a second learning or second chance education
but the beginning of knowledge, an alternative to regular
education, a potent weapon of mass instruction and a key to
enhance human development
He regretted that Nigerian University system has not fully
exploited the ODL mode in its quest to enhance access
despite the perennial yawning gap between the demand and
supply sides of the university access equation, while in the
few universities where degree programmes were being
offered by distance learning, the practice was far from the
standard of global best practice.
The NUC official said to ensure full optimization, people
should stop having poor perception of the programme and
give it a pride of place in the institutions. He added that NUC
was making efforts through its ODL project to bring the
practice up to the global best practices; create centre of
excellence in ODL as well as organising workshop on how to
teach distance learning students
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University of Ibadan
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