The Africa Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Power and Energy Development (ACE-SPED), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), has launched a short-term certificate course in digital content creation and editing in response to the growing interest of Nigerian youth in the digital creative industry.
Announcing the initiative, the Director of ACE-SPED, Professor Emenike Ejiogu, said the hybrid professional programme is designed to enhance creativity and equip participants with practical skills for producing quality digital content that promotes positive societal values. According to him, the course covers the full content-creation lifecycle, from planning and production to editing and publishing engaging text, images, audio, and video materials suitable for a range of digital platforms.
“Key modules of the course include content strategy, audience analysis, copywriting, visual design, multimedia production, and performance analytics,” Ejiogu said.
He noted that ACE-SPED hosts an expansive studio furnished with state-of-the-art equipment capable of recording and producing music videos, podcasts, instructional videos, and comedy skits. The studio is called Centre of Competence in Digital Education and Content Creation (C-CoDE-CC).
“The short course is one of the ways we want Nigerian youths to benefit from the resources we have in our Centre,” he added. Ejiogu said that the digital content creation programme is one of ten new professional short courses recently unveiled by ACE-SPED.
He listed other courses to include: Management of Technology and Innovation; Industrial Automation and Instrumentation; Energy Management, Policy and Regulation; Material Characterisation; Bio-energy Technologies; Design and Installation of Solar PV Mini-grid and Stand-alone Systems; Renewable Energy Applications for Improved Agricultural Production, and 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing).
The ACE-SPED Director explained that, unlike regular postgraduate programmes, the professional short courses are designed to provide intensive, hands-on training within a flexible timeframe of about 40 hours, delivered over one week to three months, after which participants receive certification for the skills acquired.
