E-Learning : A New Ray of Hope for the Nigerians

Learning and education are the most important aspects that decide the growth and development of a country. In order to make progress a country must always pay attention to the education of its citizens. But this is an aspect that is often neglected in the developing and the third world countries.

E-Learning

In the African countries and especially in Nigeria, many of the universities are offering the online learning facility. The most progress has been made by the foreign universities since they have the adequate infrastructure for maintaining the process successfully.

These courses are becoming popular among the Nigerian students since they enable them to work while they study and get degrees that are accredited all over the world. While earlier only the well-to-do families could expect to have such degrees, now everybody can.

With the rise in the price of the crude oil in the global oil market, Nigeria is developing fast and many of the international companies are opening their units there and as a result huge employment opportunities will be created. In order to avail of these opportunities, the youth need to train themselves accordingly.

This is where the online learning comes into play. E-Learning is making higher education attainable to all Nigerians through distance learning. However, a huge road block in the way of spreading education among the Nigerian masses is the lack of infrastructure. The telecom sector in Nigeria is not as highly developed as is required for the successful running of the program. However, steps are being taken and results are awaited.