YABATECH trains lecturers, to begin open distance learning | Education - New Telegraph Newspaper

"Ahead of the smooth takeoff of the Open Distance & Flexible Learning (ODFL), Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) in collaboration with the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has organised a training, tagged: “Train the trainer workshop” for lecturers selected across the 12 departments of the college" writes Kayode Olanrewaju, Correspondent.

Yaba College Of Technology

The Open Distance & Flexible Learning (ODFL) had been approved by NBTE, the agency supervising polytechnic and monotechnic education in the country. Part of the vision of the initiative for polytechnics across the country, according to NBTE, is to adopt and introduce distance learning programmes and make judicious use of the programme to the benefit of the people. 

For the take-off of the initiative, NBTE was said to have trained lecturers from various polytechnics with the mandate to go back to their respective institutions to train others, with a view to equipping them with the knowledge of distance learning, to kick start ODFL in Nigerian polytechnics.
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Source: New Telegraph Newspaper