TETFUND To Deploy Blackboard Learning System To Institutions

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has concluded plans to deploy a learning platform known as the Blackboard Learning System to provide access to online academic resources in universities and other tertiary education in Nigeria.

Accordingly the Fund has organised a three-day workshop on the theme ‘The Implementation of the Enhanced Blackboard Learning Management System and Train The Trainer Programme’ in Abuja for Directors of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) from various institutions across the country.

The executive secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono said the platform will provide over two million students and staff of higher education institutions in the country with massive access to online  academic resources.

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He said the workshop, which attracted Directors of ICT from the 253 beneficiary institutions, was part of measures put in place to bridge the digital skills gap in universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.

He added that the intervention would ensure that physical and online modes of teaching and learning are cemented once and for all in tertiary institutions across the country,

Echono said Nigerian students would be able to compete favourably with their contemporaries on the global stage with the deployment of the Blackboard platform.

Speaking further, the TETFund boss said the fund is improving its allocation to ICT development in its intervention programmes to ensure that the country meets up with the present digital reality across the globe.

He said the fund has commenced various programmes including the Thesis Digitisation Programme, Beneficiary Identity Management Service (BIMS), Tertiary Education, Research, and Application Systems (TeRAS), Consolidated Library Access Platform (CLAP), Aggregated Journal Subscription from EBSCO,

He said Online Blackboard, Sponsored Mobile Internet Data on and off campus, Remote Monitoring, BPP Compliance Portal, amongst others will deliver significant value to the ICT landscape of our Beneficiary Institutions.