The demand for e-learning products through platforms, authoring tools, and content development has continued to grow in Africa.
Considering that the local educational institutions on the African continent may not have the ability to satisfy the student’s demand for effective learning, this brings the emergence of edtech startups advocating for the agenda of e-learning which is becoming more important than it was.
However, e-learning still appears a challenge as it isn’t cost-effective for the average user.
According to the CEO and Co-founder of Afrilearn, Isaac Oladipupo, his parent sacrificed all they had to ensure he has a quality education, however, his childhood friends couldn’t afford such and he watched them waste away their informative year.
This unfortunate situation looks like what the majority of young Africans encounter today. This influenced Isaac and his colleagues, Gabriel Olatunji-Legend Co-found the company and abandoned their jobs in 2019 after they made some startup discovered online and some experiments.
Afrilearn’s offering
According to Oladipupo, the edtech startup has lots of benefits. At the moment on Afrilearn, secondary school students can benefit from the curriculum-relevant video lessons, ready and rich class notes, live classes, and practice tests for academic success and best results in competitive examinations like the UTME, JSSCE, WASSCE POST-UTME, and more.
Aside from that, the platform is optimized to provide personalized fun learning experiences that assist users to find out where to focus, how they learn best, and study at their convenience anywhere, anytime, and across all devices.
Afrilearn also empowers teachers, parents, and schools to drastically reduce workload, paper works while saving time and using its world-class learning management system, pre-loaded content, and analytic reports which help to detect and optimize students’ learning progress in real-time.
Afrilearn also equips parents, teachers, and schools to drastically reduce paper works, workloads while saving time and making use of its world-class learning management system, pre-loaded content, and analytic report that assists in detecting and optimizing students’ learning progress in real-time.
“Our ready-made advanced resources and digital tools make both classroom and remote learning effortlessly engaging. It’s easily the best supplementary education resource from Africa.”
How Afrilearn works
The services can be by downloading the Afrilearn App on Google Play Store or visiting the platform’s website. Users can proceed to create an account by putting in their basic information.
Choose the subscription plan and class that is right for you. Lastly, enter payment information and start learning everywhere and on any device.
The CEO of Afrilearn said the platform is pre-stored with curriculum-relevant and trusted content, developed by expert tutors for all classes.
“Same, if not more than they would get in a physical classroom. Each class is seamlessly classified into, Second and third term covering all topics in line with the government-approved curriculum.”, the CEO added.
How cost-effective is Afrilearn?
Oladipupo explained that Afrilearn offers the best value for money.
“Actually, it’s so cost-effective that most times, we see parents and teachers gasp when they realize they have unlimited access to all video/audio lessons, class notes, practice tests, and lives classes, covering all subjects and topics across first to third terms, in their chosen class, for ₦999 only.”, Oladipupo emphasized
“It excites us because this is one of the things we set out to achieve, and we’re only just getting started. For us, it’s really about the impact and people development before profit.” quipped Oladipupo
Challenges and milestones
Oladipupo stated that the major challenged the platform face has been sourcing the right funding for content and marketing that can assist in scaling the edtech solution across Nigeria before other West African countries.
Although, the platform has witnessed some vital milestones. Just in its second year of founding, the platform was able to produce more than 1500 curriculum-relevant video lessons which are over 3500 class notes.
Also, the platform has included more than 18, 165 exam practice content and gained over 5000 active users organically and it’s still growing fast.
The platform was awarded the Digital Innovation of the Year 2020 by the U.S Chamber of Commerce.
