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Digital Education brings Nigerian Students a Scope to Progress Faster

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Technology seems to have brought magical after-effects on Nigeria’s education system. A nation that had been encountering tough times for years is now considered to be one of Africa’s rapidly growing nations in terms of education.

The massive growth in technology has now heightened the importance of online education in Nigeria and this has consequently boosted its e-commerce industry at the same time.

More Virtual learners expected in the long-run

The Human IPO reports that distance learning platforms in Nigeria have been strongly predicted to attract around 20,000 by 2014 end. In support of this context, Oluwajoba Oloba, head of projects and partnerships of Tutor.ng, said that where necessity is considered to be the mother of all inventions, the old and worn out education systems would no longer be effective for the new age learners. Instead, a

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Predictions seem to be coming strong from experts who believe that Nigeria’s education system would be heavily revolutionised with the initiation of digital learning. New trends like mobile learning would instead bring incredible changes in the telecom industry, and this would attract attention of a huge number of virtual learners from all over the globe.

learning system must be initiated that would make individuals learn comfortably from their homes.

48.4 million Internet users in Nigeria Statistics say that Nigeria currently holds the highest population in terms of internet users. In fact, the figure has reached 48.4 million owing to the initiation of a wide range of innovative tools for obtaining education conveniently. Moreover, the wide availability of GSM networks has played a key role in strengthening telecommunications and this has even cut down costs of mobile phones in Nigeria to a good extent.

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What educators and students realised in these last 10 years is the necessity of technology in making education better and stronger. The dependability on books and classrooms would never have given Nigeria a new hope to make its economically challenged students study from remote corners. Lack of financial resources was another major reason that left a lot of schools deprived of qualified instructors. So, it can be said the transformation from print technology to digital technology has lifted the spirits of Nigeria’s academic administrators in ensuring the nation a brighter future as per the educational context.

Network – This would enable students to create networks with international learners and experts who would therefore come up with fresh updates, new ideas and strategies to learn faster.

Communicate – Communication is an integral part of education that makes an individual confident and smarter. Online education in this respect is the perfect alternative that lets an individual interact constantly with either students or experts.

Manage time – One of the biggest benefits of studying online is time management that help individuals to work and study at the same time. So,

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So, the concept that distance learning has taught Nigeria is to augment access to education as much as possible. In fact, the 21 st century learners in Nigeria after taking up digital learning courses would now be looking forward to:

students in Nigeria who had always thought of earning and learning together would be able to earn a university degree through distance learning and work at the same time.

So, students in Nigeria who had always craved for completing higher studies without falling prey to financial distress will now be able to even enrol in a university distance learning course without quitting work. On doing so, they would not only remain financially balanced but their scope of professional development would keep rising.

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