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  • Babcock University deploys wireless technology to connect students, teachers

    Babcock University deploys wireless technology to connect students, teachers

    Babcock University, Ilesan Remo, Ogun State has embraced the Total Classroom Revolution (TCR) that will wirelessly connect all undergraduates, post-graduates and certificate students, lecturers, school administrators to classrooms, chapel, halls of residence, library, and cafeteria in  a campus-wide platform.

    On completion, the project will help to accelerate students learning, research and social collaboration using a combination of the latest and best- in- class advanced education technologies that can only be found among top universities in Europe, Asia and America.

    Its Vice Chancellor, Prof Kayode Makinde, said the technologies will connect lecturers and students in real-time collaboration, learning and problem solving, ensure through the use of a special tool for content creation, authoring and publishing capacities for lecturers. Besides, parents are integrated into the world of real- live education development of their wards.

    Makinde said the institution was working with a consortium of six firms from Canada, Israel, Germany, United States, France and India backed by two topmost Nigerian banks to deploy 12,000 customised Babcock Learning Tablets (BLT) for students with 32 Gigabit android powered 10.1 inch tablets.

    The BLT each comes with solar charger that serves as keyboard designed to double the life span of the battery’ compresses bandwidth to ensure students have free access to basic internet facilities meant for education purposes only built by a Canadian company with 18 patents for its peerless education learning tablets.

    Prof Makinde said the total classroom revolution is evidence of the school’s management unwavering commitment towards the continuous achievement of academic excellence that Babcock is known for since its inception “This new project will further consolidate the leadership position of Babcock as a pacesetter and the best in the league of private universities in Nigeria.”

    He said the package integrates in- motion- identification biometrics (IMID), the latest and most advanced biometrics in the world today that allows for identification and authentication of students while in motion from a distance without the usual delay and health challenges that are associated with legacy biometrics technologies.

    The IMID identifies up to eight students per second using behavioral, voice and facial   characteristics. It will be deployed at the halls of residence, cafeteria, and chapels in the first phase. The TCR also includes a robust school app, anti-theft software for the BLTs, push communication, Firmware-over-the-Air (FOTA), Student Management System (SMS) technologies, and others.

    According to the IVETEC -WiniGroup Project Manager, Mr. Akin Akintayo, the company coordinating the six consortium of companies, also to be implemented is Advanced Learning Management System (ALMS) allowing seamless recording of video and audio lectures delivered by lecturers and archiving of same to make it easier for students to review.

    He said lecturers would benefit immensely from its content creation and authoring tool that puts that will help them convert their content to books and lecture notes at the speed of light to drive both students and lecturers productivity.  Furthermore, Babcock will have access to over 20 features on ALMS such as student attendance and participation in classroom, social jam, etc.

  • WeChat, others boost learning at Babcock University

    WeChat, others boost learning at Babcock University

    Global mobile voice and text chat app, WeChat, has partnered with MrsCEOnaija.com, the online female-centric blog and several other organisations to promote a workshop to provide career counselling tips for graduating female students of the Babcock University, Ilishan Remo, Ogun State.

    Speaking at the workshop which had ‘After Graduation, What Next?  It is Limitless opportunities,’ as its theme, WeChat’s Regional Manager, West Africa, Mr. Idemudia Dima-Okojie Dima-Okojie stressed the need for businesses in the country, especially, young start-ups to embrace and incorporate the mobile app technology in  business plans if they are to grow and become successful.

    He described the mobile phone business as one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world, with the smartphone practically taking over the lives of half the world’s population. According to him, today at least 50 per cent of the global smartphone users are hooked on touchscreens and mobile apps, especially the latter, due to its inherent benefits for business.

    He said WeChat app has been enhanced with several features to help businesses reach out and interact with both their customers and prospects. One of these features,  he said, is the Official Account, whereby companies and organisations open an account within the WeChat app.

    “With these Official Accounts on our app, these organisations can now interact with their customers and prospects like never before, and more and more businesses are utilizing this feature. Today we have the likes of Etisalat, Airtel, MTN, Jobberman, Dstv, Super Sport, Jobberman, Careers24, Beat FM, and many more on our Official Accounts platform.

    “With this feature, customers can now follow and interact with their respective telecoms service providers, make payments on Dstv, listen to live radio and text into TV programmes, apply for jobs instantly on Jobberman and lots more. All these can be done within the app, thereby helping the user save the data consumed by using multiple apps and browsers to carry out these transactions,” he said.

    Founder of MrsCEOnaija.com, Mrs. Tolulope Adedejian, said the organisation was established to help raise financially empowered females for more balanced homes and community, by inspiring, coaching, enabling and facilitating women to have enhanced sources of income, either through career progression or business start-ups.

     

  • Babcock University holds 13th convocation

    Babcock University holds 13th convocation

    A retired United States of America (USA) Commanding Army General, Mark Hertling, has advocated acts of appreciation, continuous learning and belief in one’s self as attributes of leadership.

    He spoke at the commencement address at the 2015 Babcock University convocation yesterday.

    Hertling said: “The three things that would serve you well as you become the leaders of Nigeria and the world are saying ‘thank you’, never stop learning and believe in yourself.”

    He urged the graduating students to strive to overcome challenges, which are inevitable and learn something new daily.

    Gen Hertling is a member of US President, Barack Obama’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition and serves as Senior Vice-President for Global Partnering, Health Performance Strategy and Physician Leadership of Florida Hospital, USA.

    Former Akwa Ibom State Governor Godswill Akpabio was awarded an honourary doctorate degree in Global Economic Development.

  • Mass Communication Students urged to embrace New Media

    Mass Communication Students urged to embrace New Media

    Students of the Department of Mass Communication, Babcock University, have been urged to embrace new media if they are to make headway in pursuing in their career.

    Managing Editor, Online and Special Publications, the Nation Newspaper, Lekan Otufodunrin, made this call at the annual seminar to mark part of activities of Mass Communication Students’ Association (MCSA) Week, Tuesday.

    Otufodurin who spoke on the topic, Preparing for a Mass Communication Career in a New Media Age, explained that it is not enough to be a scholar of mass communication rather; necessary new media skills have to be garnered to set one apart from others in the job market.

    He said; “Media organizations and other employers of communication graduates now give preference to those who are new media savvy not only for social interaction, which was the original purpose of the platforms, but those who know how to apply them for professional requirements.”

    He was however quick to say that journalism skills cannot be substituted with being skillful in the use of new media.

    According to him, new media was only required to reach a larger audience, adding “If you know how to use the new media and you don’t have the required media skill you are not good enough. If on the other hand you have the required media skill but don’t know how to use the new media, your days of being relevant on the job are numbered.”

    The event also saw him engage the students and staff of the department with useful ideas on how to start making preparations towards a successful career in the field.

    “You need to realise that you don’t become a mass communication professional when you graduate; you need to start preparing now to be fit for the task ahead, based on what you might have been taught in school and what you have to go out of your way to learn as well,” he advised.

    According to him, “You need to begin to experiment with having a professional Facebook page and other social media accounts that can showcase what you are capable of doing as a mass communication student. You should have a blog on any area of your interest, and begin to build followership that will give you an edge in the job market.

    “If you want to be a reporter, I want to see what you have written before. If you are a broadcast student, this is the time to begin to have a channel of yours. If your interest lies in advertising and publications, you have to go online and see the changing pattern of in-house communication by organizations.”

    Speaking further, Otufodunrin urged the students to begin to work on getting their names recognised in the media world, by writing news stories, opinion articles etc, to editors for publication so as to build their profiles.

    Responding to a question by a final year student of the department, Runo Etowe, on Citizen Journalism and Weblogs, The Nation’s managing editor stressed that in as much as some weblogs upload a lot of unverified information, it behoves on media practitioners to show their worth by cross checking and verifying facts to give credibility to such stoties.

    The lecture was based on the theme for this year’s activities: ‘Online Journalism and New Media’.

    The Mass Communication Students’ Association Week is an annual event in line with the provisions of the university to encourage the various departments to come up with activities that will bring them together, as well as reinforce the importance of their chosen fields.

     

  • How Nigeria can lead Africa, by don

    How Nigeria can lead Africa, by don

    A university don, Prof. Oluwole Aluko, has urged the nation’s political leaders to be transparent and make integrity their watchword, if Nigeria must lead the African continent.

    Aluko, who spoke at a public forum in Osogbo organised by the Osun State Chapter of Association of Veteran Journalists, added that Nigeria must also start to exhibit exemplary traits to liberate the continent from corruption.

    The Professor of Public Administration and Local Government, Babcock University Ilishan, Ogun State, decried the way money was being spent into the local government administration without anything to show for it.

    He said: “The vision of honesty, transparency and integrity for African governments and people must start in Nigeria, if the black continent must not be doomed, but get liberated from the yoke of corruption. This is because for every five Africans, there is one Nigerian.”

    According to him, Nigeria must strive hard to be a leader among the third world countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Botswana, by adopting probity, accountability and transparency in governance.

    In his lecture, entitled: “Local Government in Nigeria: The Search for Survival,” Aluko, who retired from Osun State Public Service as Permanent Secretary 15 years ago, called for direct receipt of statutory allocations by local government themselves and not through state governments.

    The lecture chairman, Dr. Basheer Komolafe, who is the proprietor of Ostrich Success International College, Ode-Omu, called on journalists to always see themselves as professionals, who have a duty to perform for the good of the society.

    He said journalists must promote ethics and maintain the integrity of the profession and be ready to lead campaigns for literacy.

    He advocated better laws for the country and social security for the masses.