UBEC Hosts Media Parley to Promote Digital Resource Centre Innovations

In a move to revolutionize education in Nigeria, the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) hosted a media parley to promote the innovative programs of the newly commissioned Digital Resource Centre (DRC).

The event which took place in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, centred around raising awareness about the newly constructed UBEC Digital Resource Centre Edifice and its facilities.

UBEC, through the Digital Resource Centre (DRC), is on a mission to transform the basic educational sector in Nigeria with the SMART SCHOOLS PROGRAM. This initiative aims to create advanced teaching and smart learning settings for educators and students, empowering them with ICT training and digital literacy.

According to Professor Bashir, the National Coordinator of the centre, “The goal is to ensure that all schools in Nigeria become ‘smart schools,’ with a strong emphasis on digital content delivery and research. 

Our priority is to train school administrators, teachers, and learners with the necessary skills to thrive in this digital era.

The idea was to provide high digital quality content for users to bridge the gap between traditional and modern learning. This school is completely free with an entry age of 5 years.”

He asserted that already over 1500 teachers and educators have received various forms of training at the Digital Resource Centre in preparation for full take-off of the 37 Smart Schools built by the Federal Government through UBEC across the 36 States of the Federation and FCT.

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Dr Hafsat Lawal, Head of Capacity Development at the Digital Resource Centre during her opening remarks highlighted some of the key activities and objectives of the centre which include:

• To offer capacity development that is up-to-date with current global best practices and trends.
• To ensure that teachers, school administrators and other education personnel are adequately trained on modern digital schooling, to guarantee effective UBE delivery.
• To support teachers to meet new and emerging challenges in developing learners’ abilities and performance through training and re-training activities.
• Evolve innovative capacity development
• programmes for teachers and other personnel in the education sector to embrace novel digital techniques to stay abreast in the modern ICT-driven world.
• Train teachers to develop interactive learner-centred content in different formats for the benefit of their pupils.
• To Collaborate with relevant government, non-governmental and international development partners in providing the requisites of digital training and capacity: development to educators in, basic education.

With over 1500 educators already benefiting from the training so far, the future holds promising collaborations with state governments to expand smart schools across all local governments nationwide.

During the break, other activities include touring the Digital Resource Centre facility. The tour provides an opportunity to explore the Centre and learn more about its offerings and the impact it would have on the education sector in Nigeria.