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NEEDS ANALYSIS ON THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A HIGHER EDUCATION OPEN DISTANCE LEARNING KNOWLEDGE BASE FOR DECISION MAKERS IN NIGERIA. Rashid ADERINOYE University of Ibadan Introduction. As a follow up to the request of UNESCO-BREDA Dakar, a diagnosis of needs on the establishment of open and distance higher education knowledge base for decision makers was conducted. A thorough execution of this demands for a review of past, current and future practices of open and distance education in Nigeria with a view of identifying in conjunction with decision makers immediate and future needs for effective planning and implementation. Having interacted with policy makers, intellectuals and cross section of stakeholders in education in Nigeria the following constitute practices and priority needs in the implementation of a higher open and distance education in Nigeria. The thrust of this exercise is rested on the following terms of reference; the target audience of Decision makers, representative tasks and challenges of that the target audience is faced with including recent challenges faced by decision makers in the field in terms of cost-effectiveness, promotion of access, improving quality of teaching and learning process as well as other relevant issues, concrete examples of the most pressing issues, as well as other issues that the target audience will find useful to better respond to ‘b’ examples of information products or queries to be answered which would be useful in responding to the above issues such as comparative costs of different technologies, language of instruction, partnerships with private sector, intellectual property concerns, cultural relevance of programmes offered etc. preferences regarding the methodology and interface preferred for this resource by the target audience including suggestions on what sort of material and what media would be most effective for the target group, mechanisms to maintain updated information for this group in Nigeri