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    Open and Distance Learning as Paradigm Shift in Education vis-a-vis Covid-19 Pandemic: Focus on the Council of Legal Education and Faculties of Law in Nigerian
    (2022-09) Orie, Erimma; Aare, Folasade
    PCF10 Sub-theme: Promoting Equity and Inclusion // The World Bank stated that by April 2020, over 220 million or 13 percent of students in tertiary education globally experienced interruptions in studies due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Similarly, over 30,000 Nigerian law students faced academic disruptions for same reason. Invariably the momentum for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has never been stronger than since the Covid-19 pandemic which urgently demands a paradigm shift in lifestyles and transformation of education through relevant learning models, pedagogies and institutional management reforms. Meanwhile, the Council of Legal Education (CLE) in Nigeria which regulates the admission of law students approves of only the conventional face-to-face teaching method which creates inequalities and lacks inclusiveness. This is inimical to the attainment of ESD for law education in Nigeria where universities were shut down due to Covid -19 pandemic. Using doctrinal research methodology the paper finds that the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) espoused by the National Open University of Nigeria is a substantial panacea to academic interruptions attributable to present and future pandemics. However, the critical issue is getting the CLE and law faculties to adopt this emerging ODL paradigm trend for sustainable law education in Nigeria. The paper therefore makes salient recommendations to that effect. // Paper ID 2545