Information on EBOLA Viral Disease

Dear Content Contributor,   The recent health challenge, caused by the EBOLA viral disease in some West African countries like Liberia, Sierra-Leone, Guinea and Nigeria, is now gaining popularity and arousing discussions day-by-day in America, Europe and the rest of the world. I think there is the need to educate ourselves on this important issue. Interestingly, […]

Course Design & Teaching Methods

Dear Content Contributor,   In our last week’s tips, it was noted that if we make the right adjustments to our course designs and teaching methodologies, we will hear less of students complaining in our classes. Many world-class Universities as ours do make conscious efforts at designing their courses and carefully adopting the appropriate methodology in disseminating […]

Usage of Social Media in Learning & Teaching

Dear Content Contributor, Last week, we started our discussion on the use of Learning Management System (LMS) for effective teaching and learning in Higher Education like ours. I hope you find it interesting for adoption into FUNAAB classroom experience. This week, we want to continue in the series of Learning Technology by discussing the usage […]

Learning Management System (LMS) in Supporting Learning & Teaching

Dear Content Contributor, Many world-class Universities nowadays are cultivating stronger relationship with Learning Management System (LMS) platform in supporting learning and teaching. Elwin Jones and Katherine Quinley, corroborate this fact in their published article titled, “Cultivating Stronger Relationships with Online Faculty through an On-Campus Visitation Programme”. Read more What is Learning Management System?   A […]

Teaching & Learning Resources

Dear Content Contributor, The establishment of the Centre for Innovation and Strategy in Learning and Teaching (CISLT) by the University Management, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Bandele Oyewole, has placed FUNAAB among the world-class Universities such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, University of Cape Town , South Africa, among others, which ensure that sound and […]

Quality Teaching in Higher Education

Dear Content Contributor, Quality teaching in higher education matters for students’ learning outcomes. As an Institution, we need to ensure that the education we offer meets the expectations of students, the requirements of employers, and the benefits of our society; both for today and for the future.  The institution-wide vision and strategy need to be well-aligned […]

Teaching & Learning: Enhancing Students’ & Lecturers’ Performance

Dear Content Contributor,   I am thrilled to discover that a lot of work had been done in the areas of teaching and learning in order to enhance students’ and lecturers’ performance. In our recent research and discovery on learning and teaching process, we found out that some leading Universities had set the pace that we […]

Achieving Excellence in Teaching

Dear Content Contributor, We want to thank our esteemed contributors for the various comments and feedbacks received so far. However, we believe that there is the need for inclusion of teaching courses in the curriculum of all postgraduate courses in our Universities and other higher educational institutions, in order to equip them with adequate teaching […]

Effective ways of impacting your students

Dear Content Contributor, I really appreciate the feedbacks received so far from members of the University Community on our previous weekly tipson the various ways we can improve teaching and learning processes in FUNAAB. Obviously, there is need for us to evaluate or audit various activities in our classes in the previous years to determine our strengths […]

Microteaching: Practice of Teaching

Dear Content Contributor, As we are making conscious effort to ensure that FUNAAB attains a world-class status, there is the need to gradually cultivate this culture through the practice of microteaching. What Is Microteaching? Microteaching is an organised practice of teaching. The goal is to give instructors confidence, support, and feedback by letting them try out among […]

Guide to Effective Teaching & Learning

Dear Content Contributor, This week, I will like us to reflect on a guide that can help us to improve on our teaching and learning activities. This guide was extracted from a book titled, “Teaching American Students – A Guide for International Faculty and Teaching Assistants in Colleges and Universities”, written by Ellen Sarkisian. It […]

Study Strategies

Dear Content Contributor,   I am thrilled to discover that a lot of work had been done in the areas of teaching and learning in order to enhance students’ and lecturers’ performance. In our recent research and discovery on learning and teaching process, we found out that some leading Universities had set the pace that we […]