The Ogun Government has announced the commencement of a virtual learning platform for students and teachers in the state affected by the compulsory lockdown due to the COVID -19 pandemic.
Mrs Ronke Soyombo, Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on Primary, Secondary and Technical Education, in a statement, said that the platform would be implemented by the Ministry of Education Science and Technology in partnership with an accredited Microsoft Education Global training partner in the state. It is a follow-up to the Ogun Digital project.
Soyombo explained that the initiative was aimed at ensuring that learners in the state were not affected academically during the closure of schools.
She explained that the platform will be a virtual learning community that provides collaboration, blended learning ecosystem, shared practices, virtual meetings among the targeted audience of students, teachers and education leaders in the state.
She said the initiative, which is targeted at all private, government-owned primary and secondary schools in the state, will also aimed at providing content for curriculum redesigning, learning resources platform automation and information processing, with email, assessment/data and digital leteracy professional development for the teachers and learners.
Shoyombo said the platform which will focus on core subjects in the academic curriculum will be implemented in phases.
“Other subjects will follow up in subsequent phases,” she said.
“The remote learning remained a virtual learning community that provided collaboration, blended learning ecosystem, shared practices, virtual meetings among the core independent constituents – Teachers, Education Leaders and Students.
“The platform will provide the needed avenue to generate contents and learning resources from teachers and education providers to support learning and professional development for teachers and education leaders in the state.
“Accordingly, it will stimulate automation and information processing, assessments and feedback on digital literacy, with information transfer at the fastest speed.
“While keeping the learners informed with their counterparts in other countries, especially those in terminal classes as they prepare for their certificate examination,’’ Soyombo said.
She said that there was an interactive session which was done on an online virtual platform and was joined by the State Commissioner for Education, Prof. Sidi Osho and State House of Assembly Committee members on education. Also joining the interactive session were the representatives of All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPPS) in the state.
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