Mountains of the Moon University

With effect from this academic year, the School of Education has adopted Distance Education as an innovative teaching approach, investing in the potential of the self study materials and Internet in order to expand its students’ educational mandate in Diploma in Primary Education and Bachelor of Education programmes. The Distance Education Program will be used as an alternative and a complement to traditional education training methods in order to make course materials accessible to large students’ countrywide, bridge the gaps of distance and time, and reduce the costs of access to education of our students. Module self study materials have been specifically adopted to allow a student have a self guided learning, activity based discovery learning and self evaluation.
As the program expands, we intend to open up study outreach Centres in different districts in Uganda that will provide a local point of contact for students as they work through their Distance Education modules.  The centres will also provide a means of establishing a local focus in each District of the Ruwenzori Region, in keeping with the principles of the community university. In this way the University will be an ultimate model for one of a devolved university – with a relatively small home campus linked to other centres in the region. It is model that will meet the aspiration to be a community university in which the districts feel part-ownership. 
Impact of our programs in the World
Education is the single most important ingredient for a successful society. Why? Education affords children and adults the opportunity to reach their potential as learners and thereby become productive, proud citizens. Since its inception, the School of Education at Mountains of the Moon University has long understood the central role of education for producing caring communities and vibrant economies. Our mission is to prepare the present and future teachers’ who will have a profound impact on education practice, policy, and research.

Each day--in classrooms, in schools and in the community organizations Mountains of the Moon University makes a difference. Our staff, graduates, and students have accepted the challenge of changing the world through the noble professional of teaching others. 

In addition to the work of individual member’s staff, the School of Education leverages its strengths through, collaborations with individual educationalists within the larger MMU community, and relationships with school districts around the world.

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