The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says over 2 million students and staff of higher education institutions in the country will soon have massive access to online academic resources through the deployment of Blackboard learning platform .
Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at the flag-off of three-day workshop on The Implementation of the Enhanced Blackboard Learning Management System and Train The Trainer Programme in Abuja.
Echono said the workshop, which attracted directors of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from the 253 beneficiary institutions of the Fund, was part of measures put in place to bridge the digital skills gap in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.
“Given the rising significance of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) across diverse sectors, including education, this initiative holds immense students, and the overall potential to positively impact educators, advancement of our educational landscape.
“Online learning remains critical to our collective success, and so today, as we flag off this programme, the goal is that we would have provided the necessary skills for online Blackboard LMS and enhancements to further enrich teaching, learning and research in all 253 of our beneficiary institutions.
“You may recall that for 2019-2020 ICT Support Intervention, we gave guidelines for eLearning and training on eLearning methodologies for hybrid modes of learning. So today, with Blackboard, the aim is to provide enhancements that will further improve the quality and mode of delivery of education across t