Curriculum restructuring and the future of higher education in Nigeria post Covid 19 era

• Main Author: Salami, Muideen .O.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: LB2300 Higher Education
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/28040/1/INSORPAD%20418%20432.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/28040/

The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted educational activities across the globe which has negatively affected teaching-learning processes of different institutions especially in the developing countries. It is however observed that despite the ravaging effects of the pandemic not only in the educational sector but other related sectors of economies of the world, academic activities continue in places where educational services are inclined to digitalize mode of teaching which have so far proven effective and efficient. However, developing countries as the case is in Nigeria, are facing myriads of challenges in a bid to having a paradigm shift from the traditional mode of knowledge transmission to the e-learning methods which remains the fundamental reason while schools remain shut. This paper therefore qualitatively x-ray the necessity of e-learning in Nigeria educational system, recommends dynamism in educational service delivery, exigency in the acquisition of new skills by all stakeholders involved in the teaching learning process among others.