The Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, claims that the government has made progress in the field of e-learning, giving students access to online learning facilities regardless of their location.
According to Dr. Adutwum, the Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS), which was founded in 2002, has generated interactive, appealing, relevant, and approved instructional content to enhance teaching and learning.
This was said by the Minister on Friday during the opening of five ultra-modern studios aimed at promoting e-learning and the digitization of manual content at all levels of education.
Plan International Ghana, the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office, a department of the UK government, and Dubai Cares all contributed to the facility.
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Dr. Adutwum said the Government had introduced a learning management system to facilitate e-learning in all tertiary institutions across the country.
The system, he stated, was to enhance electronic interactions due to the outbreak of the COVID 19 pandemic.
The Education Minister expressed concern over the country’s low resource usage, urging collaborative action to address educational challenges.
He said that the government had developed smart schools using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), and that CENDLOS was the engine driving the agenda.
The government’s aim to encourage STEM education, according to Dr. Adutwum, is part of a plan to boost the country’s Science Humanities ratio.
He explained that the government’s priority on STEM education was part of Ghana’s reform drive to reorient the educational system to equip learners with 21st-century capabilities.
Dr. Adutwum said Ghana’s Gross Tertiary Enrolment Ratio (GTER) stood at 18.84 percent, which fell short of the target of 25% envisaged by the Education Strategic Plan.
To that effect, he said the government had established the Open University Ghana to complement the efforts of the existing universities to increase the GTER from 18.84% to 40% by 2030.
Nana Gyamfi Adwabour, the Executive Director, CENDLOS, said the studios were part of the Centre’s vision to make ICT in education effective, efficient, accessible, and affordable to all students.
He said each studio had its own Master Control Room (MCR) and that one studio had been designated as the MCR for all the five studios.
The Executive Director said the studios would go live and churn out quality educational content and help create quality STEM content to enhance educational outcomes.