Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has said Nigeria does not need to copy beneficial e-learning solution that work well within the country from outside.
He spoke at the Ekiti Investment and Economic Summit held in Ado-Ekiti.
Sanwo-Olu stressed the importance of peer reviews among governors and public officials.
The governor, a member of panel of discussants comprising Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Governors Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti and Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna, said Lagos borrowed the idea of its e-education intervention, EKOEXCEL, from Edo.
He said Governor Obaseki introduced EdoBEST during his first tenure, adding that Lagos, having studied it, went the same route with the same technical partner in 2019.
Highlighting some of its other benefits, Sanwo-Olu said: “We can check from the tablet what attendance we have in our schools; which teacher has come in; what time they clock in and what are the lesson notes. You can design the same curriculum, irrespective of which part of the state the schools are in. So, you can have the same quality in terms of input and the expected outcome from education.”
EKOEXCEL has dramatically accelerated pupils’ literacy and numeracy performances, with significant difference between pupils’ performances in EKOEXCEL schools and their peers in traditional schools.
EKOEXCEL pupils advance in numeracy twice as fast as pupils in traditional schools. At the same time, they progress three times as quickly as their peers in comparable schools.