TEACHING ANIMAL PRODUCTS IN NIGERIA: FROM MEAT SCIENCE TO TROPICAL ANIMAL PRODUCTS INDUSTRY

Abstract

At the introduction of courses in animal products (AP) in Nigeria, meat science was the main focus of the training. In response to graduate unemployment and the paradigm shift to entrepreneurship, self-employment and job creation for university graduates the curriculum was expanded to include topics in economics and marketing and to emphasize the business dimension of AP. For the curriculum review to be successful there was the need to generate greater passion on the part of the teacher and the student to teach and learn, respectively, all the technical, as well as the business aspects of courses in AP. One well-tested way to generate student interest is to make textbooks available online in Open Access format that can be downloaded onto the smart phone. An Open Access e-book on the tropical animal products industry in Nigeria developed in compliance with instructional design directives evoked a higher student performance.