The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) is to launch an electronic instructional tablet, called I-NOUN.
The institution, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the I-NOUN tablet would help solve the endemic challenges of shortage of study materials in the university.
NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Abdalla Adamu spoke during a visit to the Chancellor, Igwe Lawrence Chikezie Agubuzu, in his palace at Awene Ezeama-Olo in Ezeagu Local Government of Enugu State.
Adamu said the gadget would solve the challenge of study material shortages and slash fees in the university, while enhancing update of the study materials.
Adamu said: “The I-NOUN tablet, which would be made available to students, will have all study materials needed by students of the university uploaded in it and would be updated regularly to foreclose the possibility of those study materials getting obsolete.”
He hailed the former VC, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, for taking NOUN from an evolutionary university to a revolutionary university.
The NOUN VC said having granted tuition-free tertiary education to inmates of prisons, his next move would be to launch what he called Diaspora NOUN.
According to him, the initiative is attracting interest in Ghana, Benin Republic and Liberia, adding that it was conceived to generate access to tertiary education for Nigerians in other countries.
Igwe Agubuzu described Prof. Adamu as eminently qualified for his job.
The royal father, who chairs Enugu State Council of Traditional Rulers, pledged to cooperate with Adamu.
“When I read through his extra-ordinary curriculum vitae, I knew that Mr. President made the right choice and he is eminently qualified to manage this great university.”
The institution, in a statement in Abuja yesterday, said the I-NOUN tablet would help solve the endemic challenges of shortage of study materials in the university.
NOUN’s Vice-Chancellor Prof. Abdalla Adamu spoke during a visit to the Chancellor, Igwe Lawrence Chikezie Agubuzu, in his palace at Awene Ezeama-Olo in Ezeagu Local Government of Enugu State.
Adamu said the gadget would solve the challenge of study material shortages and slash fees in the university, while enhancing update of the study materials.
Adamu said: “The I-NOUN tablet, which would be made available to students, will have all study materials needed by students of the university uploaded in it and would be updated regularly to foreclose the possibility of those study materials getting obsolete.”
He hailed the former VC, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, for taking NOUN from an evolutionary university to a revolutionary university.
The NOUN VC said having granted tuition-free tertiary education to inmates of prisons, his next move would be to launch what he called Diaspora NOUN.
According to him, the initiative is attracting interest in Ghana, Benin Republic and Liberia, adding that it was conceived to generate access to tertiary education for Nigerians in other countries.
Igwe Agubuzu described Prof. Adamu as eminently qualified for his job.
The royal father, who chairs Enugu State Council of Traditional Rulers, pledged to cooperate with Adamu.
“When I read through his extra-ordinary curriculum vitae, I knew that Mr. President made the right choice and he is eminently qualified to manage this great university.”
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