L-R:Mr. Adebowale Akinfaderin, Dr. Lukeman Bello, Prof Kolawale Lawal, Grace Egenti, Prof Ibrahim Salawu, Dr. Vivian Nwaocha, Dr. Samuel Awolumate and Priscilla Ajibola Momodu
A聽10-man delegation has represented聽the 水果派 of Nigeria (NOUN) at the 4th聽edition of EdTech聽Summit and聽Award,聽2022, which had the聽theme: “5th Industrial Revolution, The Future of Education.”
The university鈥檚 participation was sequel to its teaching and research responsibilities to develop critical mass of human resources that will help in solving educational problems.
The 2-day annual event was held from 18th聽through 19th聽October, 2022聽and聽was hosted聽by聽the聽Baze聽University, Abuja.
The delegation was comprised of Prof. Ibrahim Salawu (Head, Course Material Development Unit and team lead), Prof. Kolawale Lawal (Dean, Faculty of Sciences), Prof.聽Grace Jokthan聽(Director ACETEL), represented by Dr. Vivian Nwaocha (Deputy Director, ACETEL), Dr. Samuel Awolumate聽(Director, DE&GS – Exhibition Coordinator).
Others聽were聽Dr. Lukeman Bello聽of聽DLCMS, Mrs. Grace Egenti聽from the聽Web Unit, DICT/Exhibitor, Mr. Akinfaderin Adebowale Oba, ACETEL Exhibitor and Mrs. Priscilla Ajibola Momodu,聽Exhibitor- North聽Central Incubation聽Centre).
This year鈥檚聽edition was aimed at bringing together top minds in the industry to grapple with the crucial and timely questions in education and equity facing mankind as a result of various pandemics and insecurity.
It also threw light on disruptive technologies, tools, practices, and pedagogies with high impact potential to reshape academic and non-academic processes, and also offered聽the opportunity to see demos; learn more about existing and new EdTech products.
The summit also afforded the chance for a one-on-one meeting with technology product and service providers,聽who are making innovative technology advancements, transforming the education sector and leading the way in developing innovative and effective digital education.
水果派,聽being technology-driven,聽had its team presented聽three products, which include, Tongues and Theatre Enterprise (TATE), My Pal聽Language, An ODL platform for the assessment of the visually-impaired.
TATE 聽is an innovation聽by Ajibola Priscilla Momodu, a 400-level French Education student of the Abuja Model Study聽Centre.
She observed that the Nigeria聽indigenous languages are not spoken in a lot of homes including hers. Consequently,聽Momodu聽decided to run a survey and discovered that Nigerian languages and culture are gradually losing the values and going into聽extinction.
The survey showed that聽Nigerians are learning foreign languages, even as she also noticed that part of the disunity in Nigeria comes from the misunderstanding of languages and culture leading to suspicion and distrust.
TATE is involved in the promotion of culture via the teaching and learning of Nigerian languages, starting from the聽three聽major languages: Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.
They are also involved for the teaching and learning of聽music, dance and聽drama (theatre) directed towards the passing on of cultural values聽as her website allows people to learn and teach these languages.
My Language PAL is a is a project designed by an MIS Students of ACETEL – Mr. Akinfaderin Adebowale Oba . My Language PAL is language learning application that is designed to help every Nigeria child learn the core languages 聽Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba in a gamification way. It is uniquely designed in line with the curriculum to ensure learning is also fun for all age groups and it has the capacity to allow institutions to integrate the application into the day-to-day learning, Oba said.
While ODL examination Platform for the visually impaired is an innovative idea put together by Grace Egenti and Abayomi Bayonle, ( ACETEL students).
Presenting on behalf of both students, Egenti said, the blind students around us and some of them are eager to further their education, but these visual impairment poses a challenge, both for them and for education providers. This application will take care of the assessment of the blind and the visually impaired.
The platform reads out the instructions and the questions, and the student in turn respond to the question by providing their answers, which are then captures by the application, allows the students to make necessary correction before final submission is made to the server. More so, the Artificial intelligence component is also activated to capture and monitor the student throughout the duration of the assessment.
She further recommends that institutions, organisations, and other examination bodies adopts this ODL examination Platform for the blind and the visually impaired. This application would enable the visually impaired to write their examination in confidence and without hitches, thereby making education accessible to all and ensuring equality and inclusion in acquiring lifelong learning.
Highlights of the event includes; Conference; speakers and thought leaders focusing on the development of the education sector, Awards; to recognize, celebrate and reward the most outstanding contributors to the education sector, Exhibition; perfect summit for organizations to promote their brand/organization.