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In 2020, a global pandemic known as COVID-19 struck and changed life as we knew it.
In a bid to protect citizens, governments around the world enforced safety measures that restricted
physical gatherings of any sort.
These physical gatherings included not only economic and religious gatherings but also educational
ones.
Interestingly, for a long time; the year 2020 has also been predicted to be the peak of a technology
driven future,
with humans living in space and revolutionized systems. Although, not all of these predictions came
to be true,
technology created a massive impact on many aspects of life, with one of those aspects being
Education.
Various forms of digital learning were adopted by higher institutions in educating students both
during
and post pandemic. For many higher learning institutions around the world, the transition was simply
a
move from a partly digitalized system to a fully digitalized one. While for others, like many in
Nigeria, it
was from a completely non-digitalized system to a digitalized and technologically driven one. As
expected,
with the transition came funding challenges which made many Nigerian public universities jump late
on
the tech train. Rather than hardly or once in a while, post pandemic-wise, education should be
delivered
using online resources and facilities. This serves two purposes,
(1) Acclimatizing students and teachers to the digital learning mode.
(2) Improving the quality of education.
In light of this, the federal government has announced the conclusion of its plans to build
state-of-the-
art digital schools and facilities for learning across the country. The Executive Secretary of the
Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the
commissioning of Basic Education projects at the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State.