Nigerian Universities in the New Digital Age

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Nigerian Universities in the New Digital Age
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Change
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The book.
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If a surgeon from the mid-1800s were to be
magically transported through time to a modern
operating theater, he would be stunned and
completely useless. A teacher, however, taken
from the same time period and deposited in a
modern day classroom, would be able to pick up
the chalk and resume lecturing. -- Seymore
Papert
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Computing
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Communicate
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Its not a comput-er. Its acommunicat-or.
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Network Technology

• Copper wires
• Strands of glass
• Satellites
• Invisible Signals
• Sharing our Stories
• Communicating

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Networks
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Cyberspace
News
Friends
Countries
Newsgroups
Journals
Maps
Brides
Sex
Publications
Cars
Art
World Wide Web
Music
Planets
Museums
Doctors
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Teaching in theNew Digital World
Scarcity
Abundance
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Librarians
From gatekeepers...
to guides
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Teachers
From the Sage on the Stage...
to the Guide on the Side
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Designing Learning Environments

• Providing students with a wealth of information
• and a path to follow

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Whither the University?

• Learning over the Internet is neither time bound
  or place bound
• Degrees offered via the Internet
• Classes anywhere, anytime
• The campus itself will simply be seen as just
  another university resource

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Learning to Learn

• The average shelf life of a technical degree is a
  mere five years
• Continuing education
• Instruction on-demand at the workers desktop
• Life long learning,
• Just-in-time knowledge,

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Collaboration

• Students communicate at their own pace,
• Small group discussions
• Accomplishing coursework as a team
• Collaborate with outside experts and
  professionals
• Real world skills

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Whither the Nigerian Universities?

• On the map?
• In the Stone Age?
• Hopelessly behind?

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The Digital Age has Barely Begun

• The PC revolution is in its 19th year
• Fourteen years of computer networking
• Six years of Ethernet-TCP/IP standard
• Six years of significant Internet
• Bad deployments
• Lots of false starts
• Industry constantly shaken

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The Last Shall Be First

• Plenty of missteps have been taken by those in
  Western countries
• Nigeria can learn from these forerunners
• Avoiding her own crippling mistakes

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A Five-Point Recipefor Digital Success
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Point One
Develop strong institutional leadership
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Point Two
Teach your children
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Point Two-point-five
Avoid deploying monument computers
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Point Three
Nurture widespread adoption of all digital
technologies
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Point Four
Encourage, assist, and reward innovators
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Point Five
Beware of naysaying computer nerds
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Ideals to strive for...

• A busy Web server doling out Nigerian research
• The definitive Hausa language course
• The premier Web site for Yoruba art and culture
• UI students on-line with experts worldwide
• Attracting the world to Nigeria

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Cannot avoid the Internet

• More and more material only available on the
  Internet.
• Competition will force universities to change
• It is just beginning...

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Connect!
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Nigerian Universities in the New Digital Age