OAU’s centre opens application for e-Learning programme

The Obafemi Awolowo University Centre for Distance Learning (OAUCDL), has announced that applications are now open for its 2015/2016 degree programmes in accounting, economics and nursing.

The programme introduced in April 2014, currently has 317 enrolled students, who receive lectures at their various locations, through VigiTabs (handheld devices), which they were handed upon enrolment. The programmes enjoy National Universities Commission (NUC) approval.

The OAUCDL Director, Prof. Michael Adeyeye, told newsmen: “We are excited about the success of this programme, which opens up opportunities for everybody to go to school, ranging from the worker who wants to further his studies whilst still retaining his job, to students who are qualified for admission, but are denied due to space constraints. We are not limited by space or location and we have students from different states in Nigeria.”

He further stated that, “the e-Learning programme is a step in the right direction. The existing higher institutions can only admit one-third of degree seeking Nigerians. e-Learning, therefore, is the way of the future.”

Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Bamitale Omole, while speaking at the matriculation ceremony of the pioneer students last year, had assured them that the programme will in no way imply inferiority in status, compared to conventional students, either in terms of lecture delivery or the certificates issued at the end of the programmes.
“Our university guards jealously the integrity of its degrees and diplomas, whether obtained in the conventional or distance learning mode. Hence your various curricula have gone through the usual high standards of excellence of the University Senate for which Obafemi Awolowo University is well known.”

To enroll for the programme, applicants must have a JAMB score of 180 and five credit passes in relevant subjects and visit online.oaucdl.edu.ng to submit their application.