The Need for a Multimodal Means of Effective Digital Learning through Data Mining and Institutional Knowledge Repository: A Proposed System for Polytechnics in Northern Nigeria

Abstract

Educational institutions, information and knowledge givers in Nigeria are faced with numerous challenges of carrying everyone on the same page through the lack of proper digital learning and knowledge preservation tools simply regarded as a digital library. In any learning institution, digital libraries and institutional repositories are the keys to a qualitative knowledge stockpiling and delivery. The main aim of the paper is to propose a viable means of effective digital learning for the Polytechnics in Northern Nigeria. This paper also attempted to highlight the major information system components needed to develop a digital learning that will fit the Institutions with an approach through Multimedia data mining and suggests an Institutional Knowledge repository for proper academic data storage such as journals, thesis, lecture notes, dissertations, undergraduate student projects etc. The proposed system is expected to serve as a step towards bridging the gap between the polytechnics learning system and the tertiary institutions in the developed nations.