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Internet learning, Online Education, or Distance Learning – whatever you prefer to call it, is a big trend in today’s academic world. For most it’s a flexible knowledge enhancer programme that hardly demand any sacrifice in your professional and personal life. Moreover, it is making education available for all overcoming the physical, geographical and financial predicaments. From students in China who can’t afford to fly abroad to the learners in African continent living below poverty level – online education is bringing hope for everybody.
Helping to overcome the barriers
Demand of the employers is increasing. They want smarter performance at workplace. So, employees who want to improve their performance are keen on attaining higher level degrees. Hence, demand for higher and effective education is increasing all over the world.
People residing in developing continents are opting for study abroad as their educational resources aren’t satisfactory enough. For example a surging popularity for the courses available in UK Universities is being noticed among the Nigerian students over the last few years and it’s increasing at a rapid rate. The Higher Education Statistics Agency in the UK (HESA) shows that 17,640 Nigerians enrolled to study at UK universities during 2011/12 compared to 5,385 for 2003/04. Selma Toohey, international recruitment officer for Sub-Saharan Africa at Nottingham Trent University, says - “More people are realising that studying in the UK is a realistic option and many find it to be a real benefit to experience living in another culture while studying for their degrees.”
Fresh avenues toward brighter future
Well, if your commitments and responsibilities are keeping you away from such pleasures then new age learning options are ready to help you. In addition to that, visiting a foreign land to pursue a degree is still a far cry for many people around the world. So, the best Universities are opening online curriculum to reach out to those who are unable to afford higher education.
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It’s not that Nigerians don’t have good educational institutions but they don’t operate properly as the government doesn’t fund for them. Moreover, most of them are over-populated and have more than enough academic staffs. So, students are gradually moving toward online education. Initiatives are being taken and renowned institutions are coming forward to change the present environment. Of late, Intel launched an online solution for the new age learners in Nigeria. Their mission is to help them access economical and free digital learning resources. The education solution, Learn Marketplace, and Intel Explore are introduced and designed to facilitate the traditional complications of learning. Speaking about the collaboration with Intel, Ehizogie Binitie, Co-Founder And Chief Technology Officer of Rancard, said,
“We recognise education as a major challenge across the continent and believe the platform we have deployed together with Intel for the African market is an important step in solving this challenge, equipping both educators and content creators with the tools they need to create and distribute high quality educational content.”
Attaining education through online can be a great technique for learners with busy schedule or having geographical and financial constraints. Including the options of flexible scheduling, audio-video instructions, and relevant choices in courses, internet classes offer you to be a part of global classroom and participate in discussions where your mates will be commenting from different parts of the world with you. It couldn’t be more exciting than this for the students of developing countries like Nigeria.
