oeawards25 nominations close July 21
Dig deep – nominate deserving non-traditional, unexpected or unusual open education people and projects … e.g. this #OEAward16 winner:
>> The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) << in Lagos, Nigeria
Sow the seed today! 2025 Awards Nomination Guide – Open Education Awards for Excellence
What a relief! A few days ago when I was verifying the link to the National Open University of Nigeria, I found the link https://nou.edu.ng/ led me to an Indonesian gambling site. Oh no!
Luckily this has been addressed (likely a slip in remembering to renew a domain?) and the full web site us back.
NOUN is an even impressive organization in 2025, in reading its history that it has 78 learning centers across Nigeria, and thus one can see was well worth this recognition in 2016.
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) as we have it today has become a leading ODL institution in Africa providing functional, flexible, accessible and cost-effective education for all who seek knowledge. It currently has 78 Study Centres spread across the six geo-political zones of the country. The current student population stands at over five hundred thousand.
As a faithful trustee of the Nigerian people, NOUN leverages on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to deliver an education tailored towards the globalized economy. The University offers exceptional academic programmes that meet the specific needs of all sectors of the global economy, in the Arts; Health; Law; Physical, Social, Agricultural and Management Sciences.
As an ODL institution, NOUN is an equal opportunity university determined to meet the following objectives that necessitated the establishment of open and distance education in Nigeria:
- Provision of Education for All and promotion of lifelong learning
- Filling the gap created by the closure of outreaches/satellite campuses
- Cost effectiveness
- Improved economies of scale
- Flexibility of delivery system
- Maximum utilization of academic personnel
- On-the-job teacher training
- Poverty eradication, vocational and lifelong education
- Provision of non-formal education
- Reaching the unreached
- Propagation of national orientation