Communication Skills
the case of the Jos University
Presented at the Open Educational Resources Convening
Safari Park Hotel, Nairobi
May 16-18, 2011
By
Jerome Terpase Dooga
Department of English, University of Jos, Nigeria
OER: Concept unknown at Unijos
At an institutional level
Term, concept alien
We are Not creators
Not contributors
Not even consumers
Any contact with, and use of OER
resources is part of the wild Google
search
Using Communication Skills from:
The Bunda College of Agriculture
What we did
What we took
Module 4: Listening Skills
Pp. 32-49;
Adapted the pedagogy,
especially the 2 types of
activities: Self Study, and
Seminar Activity
What we changed
What the new course included
Replaced all references to
Bunda College with University
of Jos;
Replaced/provided trade
union-specific scenarios and
examples;
added the controlling listener
as a sub-type of listener to
contrast with the empathetic
listener;
added the process of listening:
predicting, receiving
messages, attending, &
assigning meaning.
Creating and delivering effectives
speeches (taken from The Writing
Centre, University of North Carolina
and Chapel Hill, licensed under the
Creative Commons
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb
/handouts/speeches.html
Using Communication Skills from:
The Bunda College of Agriculture (2)
The unanswered question:
How do we make this ‘new’ course
on Communication Skills available
for others to use?
The Unijos ETI and the case for OERS
OER is embedded in some of the PHEA ETI projects at Unijos:
•The Multimedia projects (The Electronic Pharmaceutical
Analyst & Digital Herbarium of Medicinal Plants);
•The Academic Writing Course (we can all contribute in terms of
scoping, references and resources and other ideas: contact
email: zwakausu@gmail.com; zwakausu@yahoo.com;
doogaj@unijos.edu.ng )