UNESCO trains 100 teachers in Rivers, Nigeria on e-learning

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has trained 100 teachers drawn from different schools in Rivers state on ICT component of teaching and learning.
Flagging off the exercise in Port Harcourt, capital of the state, Director, UNESCO Regional office, Abuja, Benoit Sossou, said the exercise was part of effort by the world body to promote excellence in knowledge acquisition and to eradicate illiteracy.

He said the training program will help lay a solid foundation in the area of e learning in core subject areas among teachers in the state He said the program which is essentially on knowledge delivery to students through e learning will adequately equip students with the needed knowledge in this age.

The UNESCO Abuja Regional Director, Sossou who was represented by Mrs Atech Abansi enjoined the teachers to strictly use the materials given to them for the purpose for which the international body donated