University don urges TZ to ICTs to leverage education
Tanzania's higher learning institutions still to take full advantage of ICTs
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The Vice-Chancellor of the Open University of Tanzania Professor Elifas Bisanda made the call today in Dar es Salaam citing distance learning as a peculiar mode to achieve the required goals.
Dar es Salaam: Education stakeholders in both public and private sectors have been asked to cope with the evolving technological changes geared by use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to harmonize education in higher learning institutions in the county.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Open University of Tanzania Professor Elifas Bisanda made the call today in Dar es Salaam citing distance learning as a peculiar mode to achieve the required goals.
Professor Bisanda was speaking in an exclusive interview with the Citizen at the ICT in education exhibition ground which entered its second day today.
The week long exhibition which is organised by the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) has attracted education stakeholders in the country including public higher learning institutions to show case the use of ICT as a basic methodology of teaching.
He said as the world is emerging with new technological changes now and then, it was therefore important to make use of ICT tools with a view to develop education curriculum in higher learning institutions in the country.
Citing an example which is being applied in non-conventional learning centers, Prof. Bisanda noted that ICT is widely used to access various educational information and quite a good number of students have acquired in-depth knowledge through self-learning.
