The “ICDE Virtual Global Conference Week 2021: Upskilling and upscaling for quality Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (OFDL)” will take place during the week of 25 - 29 October 2021 and will consist of an academic programme adapted to various time zones that will bring together the global educational community to develop skills and knowledge in delivering quality OFDL.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

• Time Zone Flexibility: Flexible virtual programme with sessions planned in multiple time zones.

The African Council for Distance Education (ACDE) has announced the 6th African Council for Distance Education conference, slated to hold from 27th – 29th September, 2021.

An indigenous technology consulting and advisory firm, SeamlessHR, has presented a proposal to automate the university’s Human Resource, Recruitment and Learning Management Systems towards an effective and efficient IT solutions.

The immediate-past director of Port Harcourt Study Centre, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Prof. Eserinune McCarty Mojaye, has charged staff of the centre to support and cooperate with his successor, Dr. Nnenna Nancy Chukwuma in order to build on his modest efforts to take the centre to an enviable height.

Mojaye made the appeal on Monday during the official handover ceremony, which took place at the conference room of the centre.

A total of 41 students from four African countries are undergoing a week-long virtual orientation exercise organised by the Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL). 

The breakdown of the figure, according to centre director, Prof. Grace Jokthan, shows eleven females and thirty male students from The Gambia, Ghana, Cameron and Uganda participated at the orientation exercise. 

The Director, Gombe Study Centre, Dr. Adamu Bappah, on Friday, 20th August, 2021, received a delegation from the Federal Fire Service, Gombe State Command, led by the CSF Yunusa Usman.

The aim of the visit, according to CSF Usman, was to inspect the building to ensure that it complies with the mandate of the fire service acts.

The Vice-Chancellor of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Olufemi Peters, has said the team at the Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL) is poised and ready to take up any challenge.

The Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning (ACETEL) is to hold its second postgraduate orientation ceremony.

According to a memo signed by the director of the centre, Prof. Grace E. Jokthan on Friday, August 20th, 2021, and addressed to the director, Media and Publicity, the ceremony will hold on Monday, August 23rd, 2021 by 11am via zoom channel.