In an effort to help address the challenge of access to
quality educational resources among students, Tigo Tanzania in partnership with
Shule Direct, a local online education enterprise, has launched SMS Makini
educational platform to provide educational learning content to students and
teachers. Tigo Corporate Responsibility Manager Woinde Shisael told reporters
during the launching event in Dar es Salaam last week that students will
benefit from the platform by accessing academic materials basing on the
country’s syllabus. She said the move would help to bridge the existing gap of
learning resources in the education sector. Reports show a significant number
of teachers in public schools experience an annual demand of more than 20,000
Science and Mathematics teachers.
Tigo Corporate Responsibility Manager Woinde Shisael
“Through the use of Tigo SMS Makini,
secondary school students and teachers, will be able to access digitalized
notes, tutorials, quizzes, podcasts and videos right from their mobile
handsets,” Woinde explained. The materials available would include History,
Civics, Geography, Physics, Chemistry, English, Biology, English, Mathematics
and Kiswahili subjects. Tigo subscribers would only access free services for
one month thereafter will be required to pay a weekly subscription fee of Sh100
and Sh500 respectively. “To access the service, subscribers will need to send a
key word makini to 15397 and follow instructions” she said. Shule Direct, a
designed platform by Faraja Nyalandu works to address the problem enabling
students to learn independently and provide teachers with qualified teaching
resources. Faraja said the platform target the masses by using an SMS platform
that provide learning and revision quizzes for on-the-go learning on any basic
mobile phone. As of September last year, at least 10,200 had already been
subscribed with the platform while recording 115,000 visitors.
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