The outbreak of the deadly virus, Covid-19 has dealt a big blow to every sectors of global economy. The educational sector being a sector that majorly focuses on traditional learning proves to be one of the most affected sectors.
Covid-19, a highly contagious virus has significantly reduced the world population by killing high number of people across the globe this year.
Across African countries, educational sector has being on standstill due to low presence of digital educational solutions that can fight the negative effect of the virus. The continent has over the years relied on traditional means of learning despite the advent and deployment of technology in the global economy, most especially in Nigeria.
The outbreak of the virus has found it necessary for African government and private organisation to take a deep rejig of the educational sector which is the pillar of the economy by implementating and enforcing a digital-driven policies and solutions that will build an inclusive educational settings.
According to the United Nation International Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF), not less than 31 per cent- some 463 million of school children worldwide cannot be reached by broadcast learning programs enacted to counter school closure.
To bride this gap and build an inclusive digital learning, Nigeria’s technological focused firm, Sidmach Technologies recently unveiled a digital educational solution to simplify learning and redirect Nigeria’s learning culture.
The solution, “Luminate” is a learning management solution that facilitates the creation and consumption of educational content for smart online teaching and learning.
The solution offers access to tons of educational content for learners across all levels. The platform is a knowledge bank where teachers and learners of all levels converge to exchange knowledge and makes online teaching and learning easy for learners, schools and teachers, content creator, and researchers.
Users of the platform stands to learn at their pace, access various a variety of educational content, upload academic research, earn passively and personalised dashboard assignments.
Primary, secondary and tertiary schools teachers and lecturers can leverage on the Luminate platform created by Sidmach Technologies to create their own virtual classrooms, hold live classes as well as create their own educational content for their students. They can access variety of educational content that can be useful for their students. Teachers can also engage and collaborate with parents through a dashboard while giving and marking assignments or tests is done seamlessly.
As part of its benefits to content creators; Luminate provides opportunity to create content from scratch with available tools, also created contents can be uploaded easily. Other benefits, monetizing content, get ratings, track consumption in real time and get feedback to keep improving their content. Academic Researchers can also upload their academic research work while tracking consumption from the dashboard.
With the launch of the new solution, hope is high that Africa and Nigeria learning corridor will take a positive stride.
