By Dayo Adesulu

A leading information and communication technology solutions company, Coscharis Technologies, has launched Edu-Mobile, Nigeria’s first mobile school, primarily targeted at primary and secondary school students and teachers.

This is in bid to drive standardization in the Nigerian educational system, promote teachers’education as well as improve students’ performance in examinations.

Embedded in ASUS minipads with Brain Friend software, Edu-Mobile is a mobile learning program that integrates a typical school environment into an app so students and teachers have round-the-clock, real-time access to learning.

Brain Friend is a proprietary software developed by Cinfores, an ICT company for development in education.

Speaking at the launch, Emomine Mukoro, Managing Director, Coscharis Technologies, disclosed that Edu-Mobile comes with a curriculum library which covers the totality of syllabi used in primary and secondary schools in Nigeria.

It is tailored to provide teachers’ quick learning needs including the flexibility to modify the classroom environment and provides career guidelines to help students make suitable career choices as well as prepare them towards achieving such goals.

Mukoro’s words; “Coscharis Technologies is delighted to introduce the Edu-Mobile, a 21st Century teaching and learning solution anchored on innovation, rigorous standards and excellence.

“Developed in partnership with Cinfores and ASUS,Edu-Mobile is designed as a solution to the low technological expertise among Nigerian teachers and the attendant effects on both students and learning. With Nigeria’s curriculum basedsubjects and textbook applications, in addition to test assessments and answers, Edu-Mobile reduces the financial burden of buying several study texts.

“It has a “prep platform” that prepares students for JAMB and WAEC examinations and also a video tutorial content offering step-by-step explanations on all the topics.”Mukoro continued: “Every year, almost 80% of youth corps members are deployed to teach in public and private schools across the country, many of whom do not have the requisite knowledge in teaching.