Legacy of COVID-19 will be better online capability
COVID-19 has been tough for all Nigerian higher education institutions, their staff and students, but one bright spot has been the fact that universities have developed remote learning capacities that will stand them in good stead in the future.
One university that has used COVID-19 to evaluate and improve its remote learning systems is the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), a public university based in Ife, east of Ibadan.
It has a Centre for Distance Learning, which was established as long ago as 2002 and which was able to operate during the height of the country’s lockdown so “students were receiving their lectures”, said Dr Akinsomisoye Stephen of the department of physiological sciences.