NCHE Releases E-learning guidelines for university

The National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) has released guidelines for e-learning in institutions of higher learning across the country to commence remote teaching and learning activities during the ongoing Covid-19 lockdown.
In a televised address last week, Education minister Janet Museveni said it is not yet the right time to reopen schools and revealed that her ministry is developing an ICT and e-learning framework, which will guide education institutions on distance learning.
According to the copy of the guidelines for adoption of distance and e-learning (ODEL) system that Daily Monitor has seen, NCHE has set 23 requirements that must be fulfilled by all the institutions before they are cleared to start e-learning.
“The NCHE takes cognizance of the readiness to reopen expressed by the majority institutions and has developed guidelines for aiding these institutions to resume their teaching and learning activities remotely, where the students and lecturers can be able to interact without necessarily coming into contact during the lockdown,” the NCHE executive director, Prof Mary Okwakol, told Daily Monitor in a telephone interview yesterday.
“We are ready to accredit all those institutions that will apply to start e-learning. We, however, expect them to apply for courses that have been approved by the NCHE,” she added.
According to the guidelines, universities have been asked to undertake a survey on students indicating their willingness or inability to participate in the proposed arrangement.