Alausa, Others Rally Africa To Harness Technologies For Inclusive Learning

Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has called connected African nations to clasp disruptive technologies to alteration acquisition and beforehand inclusive learning crossed the continent.

At the MoodleMoot Africa Conference 2025 organised by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) successful Abuja yesterday, Alausa said Africa indispensable instrumentality complaint of its integer destiny and usage exertion arsenic a instrumentality for empowerment and equity.

The league was organised nether the theme, “Leveraging the Power of Disruptive Technologies for Africa’s Educational Transformation.”

The curate described it arsenic timely and significant, stressing that exertion is redefining however the satellite learns and teaches.

“We are gathered present to research however open-source solutions specified arsenic Moodle person transformed learning globally, offering cost-effectiveness, flexibility, section customisation, hosting scalability and ownership to our African acquisition institutions.

“We basal astatine a important juncture successful the world, a clip erstwhile exertion is transforming however we teach, larn and prosecute with an ever-expanding, yet borderless planetary community.

“For Africa, I anticipation this league volition assistance america physique a vibrant assemblage of developers and users that volition alteration america not conscionable to drawback up with the remainder of the world, but to execute integer sovereignty implicit our learning systems and data,” the curate said.

In his invited address, NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Peters, said the league was a question uniting academics, developers, administrators and technologists to physique an inclusive, technology-driven acquisition future.

“This year’s taxable is peculiarly apt due to the fact that we unrecorded successful an epoch wherever artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things and large information are transforming each facet of our lives. Education cannot spend to lag. It indispensable evolve, not arsenic a passive user of technology, but arsenic a originative unit that shapes innovation for quality development,” Peters said.

He described Moodle arsenic a span that connects learners crossed geographical divides. “Through Moodle, we person seen exertion not arsenic a luxury, but arsenic a span that connects agrarian learners to planetary classrooms, empowers teachers to go integer architects, and allows learning to flourish beyond the walls of immoderate campus,” helium said.

The Deputy High Commissioner of South Africa to Nigeria, Ms Lindi Mminele, commended the relation of the MoodleMoods Africa Conference successful bridging acquisition gaps done scalable and localised integer solutions.