Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Thursday, May 7, inaugurated the Mobile Video Tutorials for Senior Secondary Schools in Abuja to provide extra-school learning process and make education easy.
According to NAN, The Mobile Video Tutorials also known as “School on Air’’, is an innovation of the Educational Advancement Centre (EAC), an NGO, designed to provide mobile learning through instructional video.
Speaking during the inauguration ceremony, Shekarau said that the technology would encourage students to be more enthusiastic about learning.
While congratulating the organisation for the initiative, the minister said it would help in keeping the teachers on their toes, to give their best to the job.
He added that the technology would complement what the students were being taught in class.
According to him, education is the best investment any nation can give to its citizens to ensure development in the country.
The minister was quoted saying: “Even if you are attending the school, this will be an additional support to balance up what is being taught in class.
“This technology reminds us that education is everything about us; the more educated you are; the healthier and patriotic you would be.
“The greatest investment any nation can make for its citizens is education because if generations of today get educated, subsequent ones will also be educated,’’.
Pastor Muyiwa Bamgbose, the initiator of the technology, describes “School-on-Air’ as an innovation that enables students to take their teachers with them wherever they go.
Bamgbose, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the NGO, noted that the mobile tutorials was easy to access as it is available anytime, anywhere and affordable.
He explained that the innovation was conceived due to the fact that students hardly read books these days, adding that the technology was meant to catch their attention through the technologies they explore.
He listed phones, social media and computers as the other forms of technology students explore these days.
On the advantages of the innovation, he said that it was compatible with any android mobile devices and also provides the opportunity for interactive learning between teacher and students, as it encourages flipped learning.
“The technology affords the students refreshing access to an alternative source of information and puts the teachers on their toes, realising that the student has access to another teacher.
“It improves retention and performance in learning; it also involves parents in the learning process by making them to watch videos with their child.
“It personalises feedback, cover up for absenteeism, and precede discussions.”
He stated that all senior secondary school subjects were captured on the mobile video tutorials, including French language.
