Please permit me to stand on the existing protocol:
I count it all joy to stand before you this morning and deliver my address.
Blended Learning is an approach to education that combines educational materials and opportunities for interaction online, with traditional place-based classroom methods. It is a style of education in which students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching. In a nutshell, it is hybrid learning.
It is important to note that PEBL WA stands for Partnership for Enhanced and Blended Learning in West Africa. However, it is a follow-on project from Partnership for Enhanced and Blended Learning in East Africa (PEBL-EA). PEBL-WA is funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) while the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), UK is the lead partner on the project.
The technical partners on PEBL WA are:
Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA); Commonwealth of Learning (CoL); National University Commission, Nigeria; Ghana Tertiary Education Commission, Ghana; National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN);
The University partners are: Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike (AE-FUNAI), Nigeria; All Nations University (ANU), Nigeria; Ashesi University, Nigeria; Ebonyi State University, Nigeria; First Technical University, Ibadan (Tech-U Ibadan), Nigeria; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; Kumasi Technical University, Ghana; Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Nigeria; University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Ghana; University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Ghana; University of Ibadan, Nigeria; University of Lagos, Nigeria
It is very important that I introduce LAUTECH PEBL WA Project team. They are: Professor S.O. Olabiyisi, Professor Tayo Arulogun, Mr. Adeyinka Akindele, Mr. Oyegbade Oyesina. I am the LAUTECH PEBL WA Project Lead and my name is Professor Timothy Ipoola Olabiyi. Thank you for listening.
