
Tutors in Nigeria looking to make money from teaching online have received a boost thanks to the launch of a local learning website.
Dubbed ‘Tutor.ng’, the online teaching tool helps tutors monetise their content within a virtual classroom that has features such as content sharing , assessment tools and live video feeds.
The website has been developed by local information technology company Exolve Technologies, and Oloba Oluwajoba, who heads up projects and partnerships for Tutor.ng, has told ITWeb Africa that the online tool plans to help eradicate the “mass illiteracy problem ravaging the fabrics of Africa's education system.”
Oluwajoba claims that current educational systems in Africa can “barely cater for 20% of the population willing to learn.”
Hence, Tutor.ng has launched its tool to offer incentives for tutors to teach.
“The business model is one created with the students in mind but driven through tutors,” Oluwajoba has told ITWeb Africa.
“The tutors on their own part have the discretion of making it free -- mostly for personal public promotion -- or monetised.
“Most importantly we encourage tutors to blend their online course with their existing conventional tutoring systems to increase their impact, and reach which on the economic part helps them put structure to what they are already doing and therefore making it competitive,” Oluwajoba has told ITWeb Africa.
Meanwhile, co-founder of Tutor.ng, Peter Ogedengbe, has said in a statement: “We are extremely excited to launch this platform, online tutoring solves the problem of learning beyond the classrooms and also create employment where smart and versatile graduates can become self employed by teaching online and make a living for themselves, also with the increase in internet availability and affordable computer/mobile devices, student and teachers can now do more meaningful things with their data package.”
Nigeria has Africa’s biggest internet population with 48.4 million users, according to statistics compiled by US based networking solution firm Mushroom Networks.
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