President
of the Institute, Prof. Clement Dzidonu says other centers will be established
in Takoradi, Sunyani, Wa and Tamale as part of its drive to encourage affordable
and flexible access to university education in Ghana.
“The
future of education is e-education, from the primary school to the university….There
is no future without technology,” he observed, emphasizing that distance
education without technology is a thing of the past.
AIT
started in 2009 as an independent technology-focused university offering campus-based
and open university degrees. It is modeled on internationally recognized institutes
of technology like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the
Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs).
Prof.
Dzidonu says Open University poses no challenge in infrastructure expansion
because students need no space to learn.
According
to him, Ghana needs to deploy technology to facilitate the country’s
development process, stating that every education will be e-learning in the next
decade.
“In
ten years time, any serious university who doesn’t deploy technology to deliver
their programs, whether they are campus-based or open-learning will certainly
be out of business,” he stated.
The
AIT President noted that Ghanaian students can access high quality programmes
from top universities outside Ghana without necessarily traveling outside.
Meanwhile,
a former Minister of Communications, Dr. Benjamin Aggrey Ntim, has noted Ghana
has a good footing in the deployment of information communication technology in
all facets of socio-economic development.
He
is emphatic on the application of ICT to make education easily accessible and
affordable to majority of Ghanaians.
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by Kofi Adu Domfeh
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