UNESCO Trains 50 Lecturers In Digital Education

The UNESCO International Center for Higher Education Innovation has trained 50 lecturers across five tertiary institutions in digital education. <br />Malam Auwalu Umar, Director of Public Affairs Directorate, at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, says the initiative was in collaboration with the International Institute for Online Education. <br />Umar says that the training was aimed at strengthening the digital transformation of higher education teaching and learning. <br />He further explained saying that it was a training of trainers program, which was basically an online course in design, development, and production. <br />He says the training was focused on general courses in three thematic areas of engineering/computing, medical/bioscience, as well as humanities/social sciences.