*ASUU speaks on the FG directive to embark on E-learning online class and here are the issues that ASUU pointed out to the minister of education Prof Adamu Adamu*
*ASUU journal April 2020 released*
*SenGinEduco organizations media reporting live*
Following the call by the Honorable
Minister of Education to VCs, Provosts
and Rectors of tertiary education
institutions to recommence their aborted
academic sessions as a result of COVID-19
pandemic online, ASUU wishes to appraise
Nigerians of the challenges involved in the implementation of the Ministerial directive. It
is important to break what E-learning involves
down to its constituents bolts and nuts.
*SenGinEduco organization media*
This is
necessary in order not to leave anyone in doubt that the Honorable Minister is either engaged in political gimmickry or that he is not fully
informed of the situation in the sector over which he presides.
_To this end, it is imperative
to make the following categorical declarations_ :
*Here is what ASUU released on her April journal 2020👇🏼*
1. The Minister needs to understand that E-Learning is not the same as computer vending
and supplies. It is not as simple as
computerization, supplying of computers and
accessories, or simply connecting institutions
to the internet.
2. The production of power points slides and
accessing MOOCS of overseas university is not
E-learning.
3. Online learning is a type of E-learning that
depends entirely on internet-based resources
and support system. E-learning requires certain behavioural changes and regulatory
adjustments in order to make it work for the
learner. It cannot be established by mere
Ministerial directive and bureaucratic fiat but
through careful and detailed planning, funding
and training by those involved. None of these
have been done in Nigeria.
*SenGinEduco organization media*
4. There is no Nigerian University today that is
operating any form or model of E-learning
because of poor internet access, high
bandwidth costs and irregular power supply.
On what infrastructure does the Minister expect the online delivery to run?
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5. Over the years governments, in collaboration
with some corrupt Vice Chancellors have
dumped smart boards on Universities which are now largely used as marker boards because they are not internet enabled and have no electricity to power them.
6. Faculties in universities have become
generator farms with attendant noise pollution in an attempt to maintain some degree of
services. What does the Minister expect to
happen to change the entrenched degenerative
situation?.
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7. Online learning depends critically on an
effective library system, with online resources
and seamless access from across the globe. No
Nigerian Library, including the National
Library has a semblance of a kindergarten
library in serious countries.
8. Online learning can only be effective where
there is effective learner support online. For
such support to be sustainable both learners and
facilitators must have seamless access to the
internet, and must be attuned to the new
environment and culture of learning. This
means that requisite training must have been
done.
9. Learning content must be available in a
format amenable to self-learning. This requires
skilled design through collaborative efforts by
specialists over time. MOOCS have been
touted as replacement for well-designed
content that is suited to the characteristics of the
learner and adapted to the local context. We
shouldn’t be fooled.
10. If the objectives is learning and the focus is
on the learner, preliminary studies ought to
have been done to determine the learner
characteristics and the diversities of the
realities across the federation before modelling
any approach to E-learning.
The Minister is not
properly educated to
understand that online learning is much more
than copying MOOCS and making power
point.
11. Internet access is variable across geo�political regions, as well as linguistic and
cultural parameters are highly different. One
size fits all approach is ludicrous. Moreover,
sustainable technologies should be the factor in
determining the approach to E-learning not the
excitement from improperly digested
information from too much education tourism.
12. Nigeria today runs a rudimentary distance
education system through a National Open
University and approved dual-mode
institutions that have distance learning centers.
The approach to distance education by these
institutions is at best characterized as blended learning, weighing more in the direction of face to face interaction. Some of these institutions
are basically disguised part-time programs.
13. The distance learning operations are fraught
with inequities due to the fact that they are set
up primarily as fund raising platforms for IGR
by their respective institutions.
14. There is no single University in Nigeria
today that operates a mix-mode system. This is
when students have option to take courses
online or face to face. To seek to transit
therefore to online delivery will amount to
taking a plunge. We believe that as usual,
contractors have cornered the government and
have seen a business opportunity. While civil
servants are once more using COVID-19 as a
reason to defraud government.
15. The Nigerian university system had been
defrauded for many years by federal agencies
who dump substandard computers in
universities from time to time at the end of the
year, to justify last minute plundering of
national resources in the name of supporting E�learning.
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16. With the poverty levels in Nigeria today, we
are not told how the online learning will be
financed. Lecturers are already burdened by the
fact that they have to finance the tools of their
work from their salaries. There is no other
profession where employees are required to
pay for the cost of the tools of their work. On
the average, a lecturer spends between twenty
thousand naira and forty-thousand naira on data
monthly, another twenty-thousand to buy fuel
for generators. This is besides the fact that he
bears the cost of purchasing a lap top for his
work and contributing towards keeping
indigent students in school. The Academic
Staff Union of Universities wishes to call on
Nigerians not to be deceived by the sudden love
for online learning. The hounds have smelt an
avenue to plunder our national resources once
more.
At such a time of serious emergency,
when any right thinking person should be
reflecting, we can see once again that they want
to make money from the suffering of the poor
masses.
SenGinEduco organizations conclusion on this is that no single university is well equipped for this because they are basic facilities that need to be in place before such can happen as it's now any university,polytechnic institute that embark on such is just a joker and during so in act of wickedness and inflicting pains on students who can't meet up, cause every Nigeria students are entitled to equal educational right no one is special in education, it's equality and that equality must be observed > SenGinEduco organizations
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