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Nigerian University of Ibadan, Educational Advancement Center and eXact learning solutions start African mobile learning initiative

by Personnel Today 3 Dec 2010
by Personnel Today 3 Dec 2010

The University of Ibadan, the leading university in Nigeria, is discovering the educational and administrative benefits of delivering learning materials to its students via their mobile phones – by-passing ‘traditional’ e-learning – thanks to eXact learning solutions.


 


Faced with the increasing need to prepare its students, via remotely accessed e-learning, for the examinations that will determine their future career paths, Nigeria’s University of Ibadan has partnered with teaching and testing specialist, the Educational Advancement Center (EAC), and the leading learning content management (LCMS) and digital repository (DR) solution provider, eXact learning solutions. EAC and eXact learning solutions have just announced their partnership for reselling the learn eXact learning content management product line and, HarvestRoad Hive Digital Repository in West, East and Central Africa.


Expanding  the ‘traditional’ idea of delivering this learning via computers, eXact learning solutions has developed a system that delivers the required learning materials via mobile phones seamlessly from its LCMS infrastructure


According to the University of Ibadan, making these learning materials available via mobile phones will produce a number of benefits for students, teachers and administrators. These include:




  • The ease with which tests, quizzes and surveys can be distributed and the results gathered and analysed.


  • Potentially continuous interaction in real time between the teacher and student, as well as among students, via the forum and chat room options.


  • The ease with which notifications of events, dead-lines, timetables and exam timetables can be sent to each student.


  • Books can be accessed via mobile phone at some ten to 15 per cent of the cost of supplying hard copies.

The University of Ibadan is also keen on extending these resources to students of other universities in Nigeria and other countries in the continent of Africa.


“Apart from providing an outstanding learning tool to students, the University of Ibadan will be providing a cost effective communication tool on campus – which can be tracked,” said Muyiwa Bamgbose, the CEO of EAC. “In addition, we’ll be improving the overall quality of education in Nigeria and, possibly, Africa.”


Carin Martell, eXact learning solutions’ Channel Manager, explained: “In Nigeria – and, indeed, in other parts of Africa – some people are ‘technology shy’; others can’t afford a computer and many more cannot even find one to use. Moreover, erratic and inadequate power supplies, allied to unreliable and inadequate internet facilities, contribute to inefficiencies when it comes to using computers to deliver e-learning.


“Educators may see mobile phones as a distraction to learning, yet these are pocket sized computers that are nearly always ‘on’ – and that means that they can deliver learning materials anywhere, as and when required,” Martell continued.


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So, in conjunction with EAC, eXact learning solutions will transform ‘standard computerised learning material’ into materials that were adapted to be delivered via mobile phone.


 

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