The current title holder for the longest lecture is Arvind Mishra from Graphic Era University in Dehradun, India.
Arvind delivered a lecture on scientific computation for an impressive duration of 139 hours, 42 minutes, and 56 seconds, starting from March 1 to March 7, 2014.
The FUOYE lecturer, whose name was not disclosed, is aiming to break Arvind’s record. However, the details of the aca-a-thon has not been made public.
The school tweeted on Tuesday, May 13,
“The computer science lecturer at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti is organizing the ACA-A-THON event with the aim of surpassing Guinness World Record for the longest duration of lecturing, which is currently set at 150 hours.”
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The computer science lecturer at Federal University, Oye-Ekiti is organizing the ACA-A-THON event with the aim of surpassing Guinness World Record for the longest duration of lecturing, which is currently set at 150 hours.
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