Supporting learning, teaching and research across Nigeria.
TERAS is a TETFund-sponsored platform that brings digital resources and services together for participating tertiary institutions. It helps students and staff access academic materials and supports institutions in sharing research.
Public Unveiling
TERAS (Tertiary Education Research and Application Systems) was publicly unveiled on 17 October 2023 by the then Federal Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman. The initiative brings digital learning and research services within reach of students and staff across beneficiary institutions.
Federal Ministry of Education · 17 October 2023
Converged Services Program
Following the implementation of the Thesis Digitization Program, the Fund allocated more funding towards strengthening the role technology plays in elevating beneficiary institutions, the Fund adopted various technologies under the TERAS platform to deliver services directly to students, staff, and institutions.
- Beneficiary Identity Management Service - BIMS
- Aggregated Research Journals - EBSCO
- Consolidated Library Application Platform - CLAP
- Sponsored Mobile Data for Staff and Students
- Communication Skills
- Blackboard eLearning Enhancements
Thesis Digitization Program
TERAS originated from the Thesis Digitization Project. TETFund initiated the Digitization of Thesis Project in December 2021, tasking the Fund with shepherding a centralized mechanism that will serve as the basis for storing dematerialized academic output in electronic form, federated across all beneficiary institutions of the Fund. The Fund conducted various interactive sessions and surveys over a period of 9 months to identify how academic output in the form of theses and other digital resources, produced by undergraduate and postgraduate students, is stored, handled, and utilized. The report of those engagements showed, through comparative analysis of practices and approaches, that our beneficiary institutions lag significantly in two key areas:
Participating institutions are at different stages of digitising their collections. TERAS helps bring those collections into a network where Nigerian academic work is easier to discover.
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