Nigeria’s Covenant University has launched “EduSocial”, a mobile learning technology to leverage social media and mobile platforms to enhance learning for its students while on and off-campus.This comes days after the university unveiled 7500 tablets for its students to access their course tutorials, online resources and among other study books from the library via the tablet.
Linking students and their lecturers and their peers, EduSocial is expected to leverage social media to connect this students and lecturers to have one-on-one interactions wherever they are. The Vice Chancellor, Covenant University, Prof. Charles Ayo says the platform of social media for learning would facilitate interaction between the students, lecturers and the University community to enahnce one-on-one and one-to-many interactions.
