How does digitalisation shake our education system

@Rural Africa Facts 

Digitalisation has directly or indirectly affected practically every opportunity and challenge faced by our society. From education to healthcare, from transport to housing, from service provision to media and entertainment, from agriculture to industry, and from infrastructure to the democratic rule of law, developments and opportunities that until recently would have seemed like science-fiction are on the doorstep. Let’s talk today about how digitalisation entails to foster Cameroon education system. Indeed digital technology has enormous potential to improve the quality and level of our education.

Some innovative projects are trying to ameliorate and eastern our education system. It is the case of the Kwiizi box created by the start-up Kwiizi. This tool is a didactic content customized according to the schools and accessible for free thanks to a wireless network. Without access to the Internet, learners can access free 7 000 000 articles, 3 000 video courses, 7 000 educational books, 5000 book references, as well as millions of lectures and MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) put online by thousands of teachers. Added to this, we have the application Sukuloo. This is a web platform and a mobile application allowing parents to have, in real time via the net, the different grades obtained by their children at school; a progression curve of the student in the different subjects; details of all homework assignments, delays and absences; or the opportunity to discuss directly with school officials about the student's behaviour, etc. There is also the proposition of MTN Cameroon to the Minister of Secondary Education namely “Digital school”. This is a software solution for the global management of schools, academic institutions and training centers facilitating the management of activities optimally on a daily basis. The proposition also entails mobile money payment of school fees, mobile money payment for temporary staff or reimbursement and digital card for any school services or products. Talking about the mobile money services at school, the Minister of Secondary Education, Nalova LYONGA, has just signed with four companies operating in the mobile payment, a convention to operationalize in 2019, the payment of tuition fees and official exams by mobile money. These companies are Orange Cameroon, MTN Express Exchange and CAMPOST. A first step that we hope will be followed by more meaningful innovations.

  ZEBAZE CHOUNNA Annie S.