The Federal Capital Territory Secondary Education Board has unveiled its plans to advance e-learning in the FCT by partnering with a global education technology company, TESTMASTER Education Limited.
The partnership is aimed at transforming secondary education system in Abuja with the deployment of latest digital technological Apps by Testmaster.
One of the major advantages of the scheme is its ability to help recover lost grounds and close gap in education curriculum created by the lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Chairman of the FCT Secondary Education Board, Yahaya Mohammad disclosed this on Thursday at a media parley in Abuja, on the Board’s collaboration with Testmaster Education.
He commended Testmaster for the innovation stating that the App would be deployed in all secondary in Abuja to enhance learning.
“What we have today in our schools with regards to the activities of Testmaster is what we have been yearning for it is in tandem with the expectations of staff members and students.
“We are quite aware of how this has assisted us, particularly to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which ordinarily would have been a very herculean task,” the chairman said.
He added that Testmaster had keyed into the initiative the board already had in its kitty as far as the issue of ICT is concerned.
Country Director, Testmaster Education Limited, Paul Olatunde, said that the Testmaster and FCT secondary education Board multi-year partnership programme was aimed at transforming the secondary education system in the FCT using the Testmaster innovative education technology solutions to promote effective teaching and learning in schools, in the FCT.
He further said the initiative will provide equal access to high quality learning materials i.e the curriculum offered to all classes of learners from different socio-economic backgrounds using the technologies.
Olatunde disclosed that the digital learning and teaching project when implemented in all the FCT Area Education Councils will reach over 76,000 students and 4,000 teachers in 136 Senior Secondary Schools in the FCT.
He said the partnership would also promote better time management skills, high level of job performance for teachers and better monitoring of students’ academic performances.
The Country Director, added that the digital technology will also make teaching and learning to be more of fun, rather than a burden, thus creating a warm climate of relationships among education stakeholders including, the community, parents, learners, teachers, schools managers, and education ministry.
“The solution contains over 25,000 original exercises and tutorial lessons, curriculum based – all solved in short step-by-step videos.
“Testmaster Education took into consideration the increase in use of mobile devices in Nigeria, leveraged on it and created this trend changer, TestMaster. Testmaster, through its developments, addresses the weak as well as the strong students with what this millennial generation truly seeks in the present situation.
“Testmaster imparts them the ability to outperform while learning in an easy and effective way, at their own pace, free from the stress and disturbance experienced in today’s crowded learning environments”, Olatunde noted.
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