From the COVID-19 pandemic experiences, the two Ghanaian universities seek to adopt a hybrid/blended instructional delivery of all its programmes in the post COVID-19 era to provide equal access to high quality education for all students. The benefits of improvement of digital delivery of education extend beyond educational organisations. The use of digital platforms and systems in learning and teaching improves overall digital literacy of the teachers and students. Digitalization is a preferred approach to ensure sustainable growth of education in general and it also enables economic development and creation of new jobs in the field of digital systems and products’ creation but also in the field of education. Effective use of digital education tools enables to provide high quality teaching to a large number of students. Based on extensive online assessment of digital literacy of teaching staff in the two Ghanaian universities there were several items to be developed. The presentation discusess academic staffs’ lack of competences in technology skills, understaniding of it, and knowledge for developing effective online courseware. Moreover, attention is also paid to other facets of digital literacy as digital tuition is not just digitisin material and putting it online.The findings and implications are aimed for capacity building in higher education through development of comprehensive digital education delivery strategies, discussing good practises and suggesting new effective practises.

Authors:
Jussi Okkonen, Tampere University, Finland

About the Presenter(s)
Professor Jussi Okkonen is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Tampere University in Finland

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