Friday 17 August 2012

Nigerian Education System and its Present Relevance in the World


Nigeria has always viewed education as a source and mechanism for strengthening and empowering the minds with knowledge. The nation regards education, as the best birthright that a nation can endow upon its citizens. Well, it is a known fact that development of a country is largely owed to education. It not only helps a country to have a considerable population, as engineers, teachers, doctors, scientists, and agriculturalists, but it is also required to have a considerable population who are strong enough to establish their justice value.
Future of Nigeria
Therefore, pursuit of higher education in order to achieve the best has been one of the primary focuses of the nation. Well, over the course of time, distance learning has also left a considerable influence in the educational approach of the nation. As part of educational structures, Nigeria has successfully extended the service of distance education or online learning to its students. Students and career-oriented individuals based in the nation can take up the educational approach, which is a mix of face-to-face and audio/video broadcasts for pursuing knowledge.

The Future Classroom
Distance learning refers to an educational approach where learning and teaching takes place online with the teachers and students separated by distance. Students pursuing education through the approach need not attend classes within strict hours and learning is strictly student-centric. Since, learning is mostly conducted online; students can access the course anytime from any corner of the nation making way for affordable learning approach. A number of public, private, for-profit, and not-for-profit institutions conduct courses via distance learning.

In the wake of 21st century, Nigeria has been able to achieve distance learning, as one of its acclaimed innovation. Distance education in Nigeria has today posed an instrumental influence in making education available for all in the nation.

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