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 […]

How to Develop Learning & Teaching Strategies

Dear Content Contributor, Students are major stakeholders in learning and teaching process. Honestly, how to develop critical thinking in them would be a great advantage to this nation and the world at large. That is the reason why we are sharing the experience of Jennifer Anderson-Meger with you this week. I hope you will find it informative […]

Universal Design for Effective Learning

Dear Content Contributor,   The Centre for Innovation and Strategy in Learning and Teaching presents steps for Universal Design for effective learning: 1. Teaching Materials: Make sure the content of your lecture is current, detail and applicable to contemporary issues. ‘Teaching materials are the resources a teacher uses to deliver instruction. Each teacher requires a range of […]

Hints on QS World University Rankings

Dear Content Contributor, The QS World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). QS publishes the rankings results in key media around the world, including US News & World Report in the United States and Chosun Ilbo in Korea. The first rankings produced by QS independently of THE, and using […]

Grasshoppers Are Highly Nutritious, Don Tells Nigerians

A University Don has disclosed that the consumption of insects like grasshoppers remained good sources of nutrients such as protein, vitamins, fiber and mineral contents for man. Professor Adewumi Idowu of the Department of Pure and Applied Zoology, College of Biosciences (COLBIOS), made this known while delivering the 50th Inaugural Lecture of the University, titled “The […]

FUNAAB, ITOCA Hold Training on TEEAL, AGORA

The ‘Nimbe Adedipe Library of the University, in collaboration with the Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa (ITOCA), held a “Train-the-Trainers” workshop on The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL) and Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (AGORA) for librarians, academic staff, researchers and students. Declaring the programme opened, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Olusola Oyewole, […]

FUNAAB Staff Wins Commonwealth Scholarship

A Junior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science of the University, Mr. Oluwatimilehin Salako, has won a Commonwealth Scholarship, tenable in the United Kingdom during the 2015/2016 academic session. Mr. Salako was one of the 387 applicants that were offered the scholarships, funded by the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DfID). The […]