University of Jos (UNIJOS/Jos)

SAIDE has established a strong relationship with the Jos PHEA ETI liaison team. SAIDE was involved with ongoing support during the second half of 2009 though to March 2010 in readying a final version of the Educational Technology Strategy document and the accompanying project proposals and budgets for the funders’ considerations. In UNIJOS’s case there was also a round of revisions required by the funders and SAIDE helped facilitate these changes.

In February 2010 five delegates from Jos also attended the SAIDE organized PHEA ETI Inter Institutional Workshop held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The programme included a number of sessions and lectures designed to support the implementation of institutional PHEA ETI projects such as ‘Using e-Portfolios’, ‘Using LMS’, ‘Collaborative support for project implementation’, ‘Support for researchers: The Research Journey‘, ‘Mobile Learning Conceptual Framework’, ‘OER Africa and Open Education Resources’ etc.

At the end of May 2010 a representative from Jos was also invited to attend the e-Learning Africa conference in Lusaka, Zambia. Jos representatives participated actively in a panel discussion facilitated by SAIDE on ‘Best Practice in Designing Effective e-Courseware for Deployment with an LMS’. The session was designed to identify how best to ensure effective teaching and learning using the experience of the floor. These ideas were distributed to all PHEA ETI institutions.

Since the beginning of Part B project implementation (March 2010) SAIDE has been invited on two occasions to facilitate workshops at UNIJOS. Both took place in early June, the first workshop focused on good e-learning course design using Moodle and was aimed at 40 academics. The second empowered seven technicians to install and support the Moodle platform. For a third workshop on Digital Objects facilitated by a Nigerian expert, Mr Obi Brown, SAIDE was asked to provide feedback on the workshop schedule so that it’s outcomes dovetailed directly with the needs of the academics involved in the e-learning course design workshop.