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1)	Background of Unit - enrolment figures, staffing, courses offered, experience in e-learning. Team members to this project. The faculty of science houses eight (8) departments; Biochemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Geology, Mathematics, Physics, Sports Science and Zoology. Science has been the backbone of Technolgy and development, making courses that are easy to understand the principles of science, will also contribute the Governments objective of making Sciences Compulsory. The Geology department is already using an eLearning platform; GeoCLASS in collaboration with the Universitat i Bergen (University of Bergen). 2)	The Department of Physics has implemented the Moodle eLearning Platform, Makerere University eLearning Environment (MUELE) platform with all the courses created on the platform and a few constantly updated Undergraduate Semester One Courses Course Code	Course Name	MUELE Status	Update Status	Remark PHY1102 Classical Mechanics	Created	None PHY1103 Properties of Matter	Created	None PHY2102 Classical Mechanics II	Created	None PHY2103 Solid State Physics I	Created	None PHY2105 	Electromagnetism Created	Fully PHY2106 Astronomy and Astrophysics	Created	Partially PHY2107 Elements of Environmental Physics	Created	None PHY2108 Introduction to Computer Science	Created	None PHY3101 Physics Practicals	Created	Partially PHY3102 Geophysics II	Created	None PHY3103 	Solid State Physics I	Created	None PHY3106 Statistical Mechanics	Created	Fully PHY3107 Quantum Mechanics II	Created	None PHY3108 Electronics and Instrumentation	Created	None PHY3109 	Agricultural Physics	Created	None Undergraduate Semester Two Courses PHY1205 	Electricity and Magnetism	Created	Fully PHY1206: Heat and Thermodynamics	Created	None PHY2202 	Geophysics Created	None PHY2203 Fluid Physics	Created	None PHY2206 Waves and Optics	Created	Fully PHY2207 Quantum Mechanics I	Created PHY2208 Electronics	Created	Fully PHY2209 Acoustics	Created	None PHY3201 Physics Project	Created	Fully PHY3203 Materials Science	Created	None PHY3204 Solar Energy	Created	None PHY3205 Microwaves and Fibre Optics	Created	Partially PHY3206 	Nuclear Physics	Created	None PHY3208 Computer Applications	Created	None

2) Proposed course(s) for content development including those that may already have course(s) running. The rationale of such choice including readiness to develop and maintaining such course(s) on the e-platform. 3) Current methodology of knowledge transfer and the challenges relating to students participation in such arrangement. The knowledge transfer currently used in the Department of Physics is the Chalk and Talk, and Demonstrations during the Laboratory sessions. Challenges: All lectures are One hour periods and this leaves little time to make announcements, attempt solutions to assignments and tests and exercises. Few courses in the department have been regularly updated by the respective lecturers on MUELE. This has increased the efficiency in the delivery of the courses. 4) Accessibility of such platforms like MUELE, MOODLE in the unit and willingness of staff in joining when e-learning was introduced. 5) Training needs for the success of the e-content project and any other needs that will make the project more effective. 6) General expectations of the units in as far as the smooth running of the project is concerned. 7) Conclusion