The Facilitator giving a presentation
The Academic Quality Assurance Unit (AQAU) in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI) and the University of Ghana Computing Systems (UGCS) has organized a training programme on the use of the newly installed teaching equipment at the K. A. Busia, Oracca Tetteh, N Block and New N Block lecture halls.
The training was intended to equip faculty with the necessary practical knowledge to help them optimize the use of the new equipment that had been installed in these facilities as part of the Classroom Modernization Project initiated by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nana Aba Appiah-Amfo.
Speaking at the event, the Director of AQAU, Prof. Daniel K. Twerefou welcomed participants to the programme and urged them to take the training seriously. He explained that the digital age had ushered in an era where presentations can be done in different modes, in line with the changing methods of teaching where learners are supposed to participate actively in the teaching and learning process.
He said the, AQAU in collaboration with the service provider is working to provide a concise stepwise manual to be placed in all the lecture halls where the equipment had been installed, as well as a complete user manual of the equipment and a video presentation on how to use the equipment.
Mr. Kwaku Owusu Osei, the Deputy Chief Information Technology Officer (Infrastructure), underscored the need for participants to give feedback to AQAU on their experiences with the use of the equipment.
There was a presentation and demonstration by a resource person from Clems High Business, the company that installed the equipment, on how the equipment should be used for teaching. Participants were then divided into groups and each group given the chance to demonstrate as well.
Participants were taken through the components of the system, turning on the equipment, displaying PowerPoint, video or notes from the screen, displaying content from either a laptop or flash/pen drive on the screen, making annotations on the screen, using the document scanner/reader, and using the smart board and shutting down the equipment, among others.
