The Colleges of Education has urged the telecommunication companies in the country to work towards reducing the cost of data to enable trainee teachers to get access to their online learning platforms easily.
In a statement issued by Conference of Principals’ National President, Dr. Emmanuel Nyamekye, that Colleges of Education are finding stop-gap solutions to continue teaching but the quality of learning is heavily dependent on the level and quality of digital access, ie PCs/Laptops/Phones, network and data.
Dr Emmanuel Nyamekye said, the Principals are hopeful that staff and students will make good use of the opportunity by patronizing, standard asynchronous online learning tools (such as reading material via Google Classroom), and other digital online platforms which would soon be rolled out for effective teaching and learning.
The trainees requested that perhaps, a dedicated Television Channel should be dedicated to the teaching and learning experiences in the Colleges of Education.
In addition, the leadership suggested, that WhatsApp, Google Classroom and other virtual platforms can be used to access Education Information.
The trainees’ leadership also suggested that all materials meant for their lessons should be downloadable to cut cost.
With the High Cost of data bundles, the TTAG suggested, that the NCTE and other stakeholders should meet with the telecommunication networks to subsidize the cost of data, or zero-rate it for educational materials to be easily accessible.
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