UNIJOS NOTES 2ND VISIT
UNIVERSITY OF JOS GUEST HOUSE
25TH JUNE 2009
Attendance: Andrew Moore, Daniel Yakmat, Jerome Dooga, Dr Julie Mafuyil, Dr Sunday
Adewumi and Bar Dakas C.J. Dakas
1] MoA
The MoA is ready and has been signed by the appropriate UniJos representatives. Daniel will
send a scanned version to Andrew Moore and the original to :
PHEA ETI
64 Galway Road
Parkview
Johannesburg
Gauteng
South Africa
2193
2] ETS Progress
Needed help with Targets and progress to date sections but we went through each section of the
ETs and took questions offered advice etc.
Policy Environment
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University Strategy Plan 2009-14. Goals 3 & 4 are ICT Plan (3rd Iteration)
ICT Strategy Plan (2006-2011) (2nd Iteration) (Daniel to supply)
E-learning strategy plan / ETS
Individual Projects
Funding
External Funds Unit (Virtual Office): unit within the bursar’s office that deal with exclusively
with funder funds. They have had training in CT from Carnegie to expedite payment .
26 TH JUNE
Proposal Review: Read 10 project proposals which can be categorised as:
A] Multimedia Simulations:
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Microbiology: Introduction to Microbiology (MCB 101) – Electron & Florescent
microscopes, Polymerase Chain reaction machine and immunomagnetic separators
Pharmacy: Digital Herbarium of Medicinal Plants
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Pharmacy: Illustration of Tableting techniques
Pharmacy: Drug development laboratory
Pharmacy: Electronic Pharmaceutical Analyst
B] Digital Content/Courses for LMS
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Law: Virtual Learning Environment (Does not stipulate content or course)
Arts: Academic Writing module
Computer Science: Rework CS101 curriculum to suit online environment
C] Online Digital Databases
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History and International Studies: Digitise archival materials, oral histories, historical
documents, field notes, lectures etc)
Pharmacy: Drug Information Service
Two of the proposals contain an OER component:
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Arts: Academic Writing module
Computer Science: Rework CS101 curriculum to suit online environment
10h00 Working Meeting:
Attendance 25 people from faculties/departments: Political Science, Theatre, Arts, Pharmacy,
Microbiology, Law, History and International Studies and Computer Science.
Presentation from A Moore on how to improve project proposals e.g. improved outputs , more
detailed project descriptions and more detailed budgets that focus on Personnel, Travel and
Items.
Group work: Working in new teams based around common technology needs rather than
content groups consolidated proposals:
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Multimedia projects
LMS projects
Database projects
Groups submitted the improved proposals
At 15h00 Meeting was concluded with the following remarks:
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UniJos might look at doubling PHEA funding to support the ETI.
Pharmacy asked for representation on the Core Team
Concern about power – Now a room that can be done by battery power, diesel is proving
to expensive, solar farm is also an option.
Bandwidth is to be increased but there are new expenses which wiped out the planned
increment. Sea cable too about to come online for Jos in about a years’ time.
A Moore warned the group that it would be impossible to cover all submitted proposals and that
some scaling down would be required to make the amount of work required consummate with
the amount of funding. Proposal writers would have an opportunity to review the consolidation
of the proposals prior to submission to PHEA.
16h00 Core Team Meeting (Daniel Yakmat & Andrew Moore)
At this meeting projects were prioritized and decisions were made to divide the writing and
consolidation of project proposals as follows:
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Writing Focus
UniJos Education Technology Strategy
The consolidated LMS Project
The e-Fellows Extension Project
The consolidated Multimedia Project
Operational Support and Overheads
Responsibility
Daniel
Daniel
Jerome
Andrew
Daniel
Funding Range
NA
US$150,000.00
US$150,000.00
US$100,000.00
US$50,000.00
27 TH JUNE 2009
Way Forward Discussion @ Barcardi:
Attendance: Daniel Yakmat, Jerome Dooga, Sunday Adewumi & Andrew Moore
The following tasks and deadlines were agreed
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Task
2nd version of ETS document to be completed by Daniel
and forward to AJM for review
AJM to provide draft of Multimedia project proposal
AJM to revise and provide feedback on ETS
Jerome to forward e-Follows budget and proposals to
AJM for review
Daniel to forward LMS proposals to AJM for review
AJM to provide feedback on e-Fellows proposal
AJM to provide feedback on LMS proposal
Team to compile comprehensive ETS and Project
document for PHEA
Deadline
Monday 29th June
Monday 29th June
Friday 3rd July
Monday 6th July
Monday 6th July
Friday 10th July
Friday 10th July
Friday 17th July