Tallinn University and University of Ghana completed a joint pilot ELU / LIFE4s course
As part of the ongoing collaboration under the Memorandum of Understanding between Tallinn University and the University of Ghana, the two institutions have successfully completed their first joint online course ELU / LIFE4s: Learning In Interdisciplinary Focused Environment for Sustainability.
The course was organised under the joint leadership of Professor Peeter Normak, Director of the School of Digital Technologies at Tallinn University, and Professor Olivia Kwapong, Dean of the School of Continuing and Distance Education at the University of Ghana.
The initiative aimed to explore possibilities for joint teaching and learning between the two universities. Students from six regions of Ghana participated in the pilot and worked in interdisciplinary teams to address locally relevant challenges. In total, nine student teams presented project outcomes on topics such as graduate and youth unemployment, the digital divide, teenage pregnancy, illegal mining, housing challenges, autism awareness, and drug abuse. The topics were selected by the students based on their importance in the communities they represent.
We would like to thank the course facilitators and administrators from both universities for their valuable contribution to the course:
Tallinn University: School of Digital Technologies & School of Governance Law and Society James Sunney Quaicoe, Abiodun Ogunyemi, Matthew Crandall, Merja Bauters, Kersti Maidra.
University of Ghana, School of Continuing and Distance Education: Simon-Peter Kafui Aheto, Hayford Mensah Ayerakwa, Sarah Dorgbadzi, Vida Korkor Amartey.
This initiative marks an important step toward joint teaching and learning activities between the two universities. Following a review of the pilot, the institutions are planning to launch a second cohort of the ELU / LIFE4s course.