Director’s Profile

Director's Profile

Dr. Funmilayo graduated with a Bachelor degree in Pharmacy (B. Pharm,) with distinction from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife in 1998. She obtained her Masters and PhD Public Health from University of Ilorin in the year 2008 and 2018 respectively. She became a consultant Pharmacist, fellow of the West Africa Post-graduate College of Pharmacists (WAPCP), 2012 where she obtained her fellowship in social and administrative pharmacy with special award. She is also a fellow of Africa Institute of Public Health Professionals (FAIPH), 2022.

She joined NUC as a principal Academic Standards Officer in January 2010. She worked in various divisions of the Directorate which include, Undergraduate Planning, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Curriculum Development and Planning; and Qualification Framework and Verification Divisions till 2020 when she became a Deputy Director. She served as Deputy Director Research Planning &Administration under DRIIT and DD, DES- Admin in DESO through year 2020 to July 2023 when she was posted to back to Directorate of Academic Planning as DD, Resource and Strategic Planning until as elevation to Ag. Director, Directorate of Open Distance and E-learning (DODeL).

Dr Morebise also has a vast experience in the public health sector. She worked extensively with major health and educational Organisations and ministries in Nigeria. She started her career as a Hospital Pharmacist Health and Human Services Secretariat of FCTA, Abuja. She also served at the National Programme on Immunization (NPI) as an independent monitor, national supervisor and central facilitator during the National Immunization Days (NIDs), sub-National Immunization Days (sNIDs) and measles campaigns in Katsina, Kano, Niger and Osun States respectively in collaboration with World Health Organization (WHO)/UNICEF and other partners. She was recognised as a distinguished central facilitator in Osun State in year 2006.

She is very energetic and a team player. She is a problem solver and resource mobiliser. Her ability to multitask, work with different people and drive result was recognised by the Osun State, where she was recognised amongst her fellow central facilitators in 2014. She is a lover of youths, women and children. She has presented papers and attended conferences both internationally and locally. She is married with children.

Vision

To be the catalyst in the Commission’s quest to enthrone and promote best practices in the delivery of quality university education through the instrumentality of the open and distance mode, for the purpose of producing globally competitive entrepreneurial graduates who are relevant to National development.

Mission

The Department of Open and Distance Education seeks to regulate the quality of open and distance / Cross-border provision of university education in Nigeria, in order to ensure that Nigeria optimizes these modes, in ameliorating the problem of inadequate access and in fast-tracking high level human capacity production for national development and global competitiveness in line with regulatory frameworks / guidelines that Government may lay down (through the Commission) from time to time

Mandate & Functions

In pursuance of the vision and mission of the Directorate of Open Distance and e-Learning, the broad mandates of the Directorate includes to:

Promote and coordinate the development of quality Open Distance & e-Learning (ODeL), Open Educational Resources (OER) and Trans-National Education (TNE) in order to increase access and ensure equity in the provision of university education in Nigeria;
Establish and review periodically the regulatory frameworks for Open Distance and e-Learning (ODeL) )practice and Open Educational Resources (OER) use as well as provision of Trans-National Education (TNE) in the Nigerian University System;
Advise the Federal Government of Nigeria on the desirability and conditions for the establishment of Open Distance and e-Learning and Open Educational Resources (OER) and provision of Trans-National Education (TNE) in Nigeria within the framework of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to which Nigeria is a signatory;
Facilitate and strengthen the development of institutional and professional capacity for sustainable Open Distance and e-Learning mode, Open Educational Resources (OER) adoption and optimization of Trans-National Educational opportunities in Nigerian University System;
Mainstream and coordinate the orderly delivery of degree programmes via the Open Distance and e-Learning mode in the NUS; and
Forge and sustain partnership and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from the Open Distance and e-Learning, Open Educational Resources (OER) and Trans-National Education model.
Liaise and collaborate with appropriate quality assurance agencies in exporting countries to ensure parity of standard, reciprocity and mutual recognition of qualification between Nigeria and home countries of foreign educational providers;
Liaise and collaborate with the quality assurance agencies of other countries to develop a database of recognized universities and their accredited qualifications to obviate the threat posed by degree and accreditation mills;
Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from Transnational Education as an additional means of enhancing access;
Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to Promote the internationalization of university education;
Be a focal point on behalf of the Commission for engendering the achievement of harmonization, mutual recognition of degrees, diplomas and other qualifications among countries on the African continent, towards a viable African credit transfer system to facilitate student and staff mobility across borders on the continent; and
Undertake any other activities that will facilitate the optimization of Transnational educational opportunities in fulfilling the objectives of enhancing access to quality university education in Nigeria.
Promote, popularize and coordinate, the deployment of E-learning tools in the delivery of university education in Nigeria;
Set and regulate the standard of e-learning practice in the Nigerian university system (NUS);
Facilitate and strengthen the development of institutional and professional capacity in the NUS for sustainable optimization and deployment of E-teaching opportunities in Nigerian universities;
Forge and sustain partnerships and collaborations with appropriate institutions in the public and private sectors within and outside Nigeria, to enable Nigeria derive maximum benefit from E-learning in the provision of quality university education in the NUS