The Ministry of Communication and Digitalisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, has disclosed plans to commission a knowledge and skills bank to enhance teaching and learning in the country.
The knowledge and skills bank developed by a local IT firm, Impomtuo Technologies, already has over 10,000 educational materials loaded onto the portal which will be accessible to all teachers, students, researchers and other office staff.
According to the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, the ministry is also putting up 300 and 40-seater ICT labs in selected senior high schools across the country as part of the project.
In an interview with the media on the sidelines of the handing over of books and other learning materials to the Christina Akua Diawuo Library and Tech Hub in Akim Oda and Janet Brako Community Library and ICT Center in Akim Bieni, Mrs Owusu-Ekuful indicated that this is a sign of the government’s commitment to enhancing teaching and learning for all Ghanaian students.
“We have developed a knowledge and skills bank. The Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation worked with the Ministry of Education to develop this portal, which we have downloaded all textbooks onto. A lot of reading material, over 10,000 material is currently on the portal.
“It is accessible to all students, teachers, researchers, and even authors can load their content on it, interact with students on it, students can download all the material that they need from it.
“Apart from Egypt and South Africa, it is the biggest one on the continent, which is a very valuable resource for all educational material for our young students, which will complement what they are being taught in the classroom,” she stated.
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