Postgraduate and Public Lectures delivered by experienced and seasoned speakers is a typical feature of postgraduate studies in Regent-Ghana. Topics generally cut across the issues on African Development, technology, and business and religion.
Virtualizing Educational Processes: ICT-Enablers for Open Access
This lecture/workshop was attended by over forty-four participants: lecturers, postgraduate students and staff in related areas. The Resource person was Prof. Patrick Otoo Bobbie, a distinguished Prof. from Southern Polytechnic State University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He delivered this lecture at the MBA hall at the King’s campus of Regent-Ghana.
Abstract of the Lecture
The twenty-first century will continue to be marked by advances in computing and communication hardware and software – evident by the advances in wireless broadband solutions, technology-based pedagogy, and user-friendly integrated software systems. These advances are impacting the education processes namely the modalities and mechanisms for e-learning and the emergence of virtualization of academic campuses and delivery of academic programs in the advanced countries. These technologies are providing avenues for anywhere-anytime accessibility to affordable, technology-enabled resources for academic training by both rural and urban citizenry. This lecture focuses on the key technological and pragmatic methodologies for designing and implementing IT infrastructure, and an outline of a pedagogical approach, for delivering e-learning content. It is posited that the various stakeholders: academia, government and industry/corporate must collaborate to establish such virtual education processes, particularly in Africa, where the costs ought to be shared.
Topical Coverage includes:
>The Premise
>Introduction
>Methodologies
>Technology Enablers – IT Infrastructure
>Pedagogy – Content Delivery (e.g., Using CDN – Content Delivery Networks based on Enterprise Computing paradigm)
>Demonstration – A Video-Over PPT protocol (VoPPT) – a research thrust
>Conclusion
>Discussion (Q/A) of Theology