Kenyan University Introduces Online Common Course to all Students

{{A Kenya based Maseno University has introduced an online common course for it’s over 10,000 students.

The course, HIV/Aids Determinant Prevention and Management, is intended to instil life’s skill to the students who interact freely online rather than in class based lectures.}}

In a speech read by the institution’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic Affairs, Prof Charles Nyabundi on behalf of the Vice Chancellor Prof Dominic Makawiti, the course has kicked off with 232 students.

“The first batch of students exposed to the programme has proved more fruitful if studied online than face-to-face, hence the entire university will do the course,” Nyabundi said.

He said more courses done by face-to-face based lectures will be converted into online classes as a way of using technology to transform learning experiences.

Maseno University has so far enrolled 468 students for the e-learning programme which is internet based. The e-learning campus began with 124 students, two years ago.

“The inception of Maseno University e-Campus in September 2011 saw a new dawn in home grown online education in Kenya. We are proud to have been the pioneer institution in Kenya to establish an e-campus,” he explained.

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