The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, has said that the state government is building an ultra modern e-based learning outfit that will incorporate e-instructional television, e-classroom and e-drama, among others, which would be accessible to all learners and teachers in the state in particular and the world in general.

Speaking in Lagos at the close of the year 2014 Festival of Instructional Materials organised by her ministry to showcase creativity and promote the use of e-based instructional materials for the educational development of children, Oladunjoye said e-learning is the trend in education as it offers flexibility and convenience to learners, facilitates communication between teachers and learners, as well as exposes learners to varieties in learning experience with the use of multimedia and non-verbal presentation of teaching materials.

“In today’s technology-driven world, our children should not lag behind in embracing new sources of increasing their knowledge so as to be at par with their counterparts in the advanced societies.”

Themed E-based Instructional Materials: Helping the curious mind achieve greater things, the commissioner said: “The realisation of the importance of instructional materials informed the state government’s decision to invest heavily in the provision of relevant instructional materials in order to empower teachers and make their lessons more interesting, clearer, lively and very enjoyable to their students.”

To make this a reality, no fewer than 600 secondary school teachers have been trained on special audio visual media workshop and mobile capacity-building programmes for teachers in rural and riverine areas of the state in order to improve their capacities.