The School of Nursing and Midwifery has held a workshop for Lecturers and staff of the School

on Problem Based Learning (PBL) and Data Management.

The Dean of the School, Dr. Nancy Innocentia Ebu Enyan, said that the workshop was organized

to meet Key Thrust 1 of the UCC Corporate Strategic Plan, which focuses on reflective teaching

and learning. “As a school, we sat down to evaluate our teaching methodology and realized that

there is a key gap that we needed training in, to see how best we can redesign our curriculum to

fix the gap”. She explained that using the PBL curriculum would help the students to learn more.

“We will be using more student-centered learning approaches, unlike the conventional one which

is teacher-centered. We want a situation where the student can participate more in the learning.”

She added that the objectives of the workshop were to learn about PBL, how to design a PBL

curriculum, and how it could be applied in Nursing and Midwifery. “We believe that as we are

redesigning our curriculum and trying to rethink our way of teaching, we are working towards

achieving the University’s agenda.”

The workshop also included a data management workshop session which was led by experts

from the Directorate of Research, Innovation and Consultancy (DRIC). The session included an

overview of data analysis, quantitative data analysis, and interpretation of results.