KNSG purchases 800 tablets for pupils to access the e-learning Platform

By Abdullahi Kano

Kano Team Lead for the Nigeria Learning Passport, an e-learning platform Mr. Nasiru Abdullahi, has said that the state government has purchased about 800 tablets to be distributed to various schools to access the e-learning platform.

Mr. Abdullahi on Thursday at a Press conference to enlighten the media on the newly developed e-learning website developed for Primary and Secondary school pupils in Nigeria.

Mr. Abdullahi explained that the website was jointly created by the Federal Ministry of Education, the United Nation’s Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), and the Global Fund for Education (GPE).

According to him, “The idea was developed given the helpless situation that teachers and pupils found themselves during the COVID19 Pandemic.”

The Microsoft technology he said, has over 10,000 learning resources, audio, visual, and interactive for primary, secondary school, and Qur’anic school, pupils.

He explained that the technology has a provision for the installation of local content, thus the reason for creating the state teams to upload local content in various languages.

The state government he said, had created and equipped a production studio for content creation of various programs for primary, secondary, and even Qur’anic and Arabic education respectively.

Furthermore, the Team Lead disclosed that at the take-off of the website which had already been designed, the Team would make free data available to the schools.

He stressed that the website was made easy and accessible even to pupils in remote areas, as it would operate both online and offline.

The Team, however, appealed to parents and teachers, to ensure effective use of the website for the benefit of their students.

However, the Team Lead disclosed that many teachers have been trained on how to access the website and they were expected to teach their students as well.

Mr. Abdullahi stressed that if well utilized, the project would enhance quality assurance and contribute greatly to child educational development.