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Expenditure on education and training from governments, parents, individuals and corporates continues to grow to historic levels and is expected to reach USD$10T by 2030. By 2025 there will be half a billion more graduates in the world than today, driven primarily by population growth in developing countries. How will current models of education deliver to the scale, quality and speed required? The world will turn towards EdTech. Applications of advanced technology in education and learning will begin to hit their strides by 2025 with AR/VR and Artificial Intelligence becoming increasingly integrated into core education delivery and learning processes. EdTech started the decade with $500m of Venture Capital investments in 2010 and finished 14x higher at $7B in 2019! By January 2021, this figure stands at over $32 Unbelievable BILLION (USD)! Emerging Markets such as Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia are growing rapidly and have large under-served populations looking to leapfrog traditional developed education systems to lower cost and improve access and outcomes, supporting learners, teachers and administrators with advanced technology. As an education management consultant / coach, you should start preparing for this impediment. The iSchool CLOUD SLMSaaS Franchise is designed specifically for you. This whole time you have been holding the fort, keeping education on its feet in Africa, you should never lose your relevance in the sector! You don't have to really bother about the nitty gritty of EdTech before you can key into the industry. We have done all the hard work already. We have compressed into The iSchool CLOUD SLMSaaS Franchise Kit, everything you'll ever need to commence your own EdTech operations as added value to your existing education consultancy service. If you attend any of the upcoming editions of The Future of Education Summit in Nigeria and West/East Africa this year, you will have this Franchise and every other information you may need. For further details and tickets, visit https://ischoolcloud.org/summit. #educationmanagement #educationconsultants #educationconsultancy #educationcoach #edtech #edtechstartup (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO-TWcrhZIw/?igshid=1jde2hver21u6

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Competent, qualified teachers now have salary expectations that are way above most schools' budgets. As a result, many who are supposed to be teachers today are following other career paths that are more rewarding, leaving majority of schoolchildren in the hands of those who are not the best of teachers. This "situation" is largely responsible for the falling standards of education in our society today. And it's getting worse! As a matter of urgency, we must find a practical way of bringing greater minds back into the the classrooms. Join Kemi Ogunsanya at The Future of Education Summit (#Lekki2021) this June as she holds an extensive session on these anomalies and together, we shall deliberate on lasting solutions with actionable plans. Visit https://ischoolcloud.org/summit for more information on the summit and how you can be part of it. (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CO7MpocB21E/?igshid=10gj84xwbuogp

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The march towards salvaging education in Africa has begun! Saturday, June 26th in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria, the first edition of The Future of Education Summit in the 2021 Q3 and Q4 series will hold. From July to December, other editions will follow simultaneously at Port Harcourt, Kaduna, Abuja, Ibadan, Accra, Abidjan, Monrovia, Freetown, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali and Kampala. At each of these events, we are aiming to bring together individuals that are passionate about and committed to redefining the process of teaching and learning in Africa towards achieving the United Nation's SDG #4 and as intrinsic to the African Union's Agenda 2060. The following challenges (and others that will be added by participants) will be discussed and feasible, lasting solutions will be deliberated upon with resolutions on actionable plans that can be implemented immediately: 1. INADEQUATE, CONFLICTING CURRICULAR & FALLING STANDARDS OF TEXTBOOKS. 2. TEACHERS' INCOMPETENCE & DIMINISHING INTEREST IN THE PROFESSION. 3. THE DANGERS OF OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN & INCREASING NUMBERS OF SUB-STANDARD SCHOOLS 4. DISAPPEARING LABS, DEARTH OF EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & INEFFECTIVE SCHOOLS SUPERVISION. Are you one of those who are passionate about education? Do you feel concerned about the falling standards of education in our society? Do you have some ideas as to how we can turn things around in the sector? Or, have you been wondering how you can possibly break into the EdTech industry? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, then you should attend any of The Future of Education Summit edition that is closest to you. Event details, benefits of attending and different categories of tickets for all editions taking place in Nigeria are now available at https://ischoolcloud.org/summit Visit the website now and be sure to preview activity schedules for the morning, afternoon and evening sessions so as to understand fully, the essence of the summit. #education #edu #educationinnigeria #educationconsultant #blackeducators #educatorsofinstagram #educator #futureofeducationsummit #educators2educators #homeeducator #educatorsinnigeria (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/COR91-OB2oT/?igshid=ixfayvmailzy

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#Lekki2021 final lap...done! #Phew! (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/COI6hdtB_2o/?igshid=1ae5dyv8cazyf

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The fortunes of teachers are about to change. As #Edtech is fast becoming the next frontier for exploit, teaching as a profession is gradually moving away from the less lucrative career it used to be to a sought-after expertise. Before the turn of this decade, all resistance to smart education processes would have waned and the face of education would have changed completely. In the 2030s, schools as we know them might no longer popular options. I have an idea of how it's going to be but whichever way, teachers are going to be quite intrinsic in the new reality. One of the factors that will finally push smart education into our new reality is the need for more qualified teachers. This will aid the rise of digital remote teaching. All known issues that might make on-screen teaching less effective are being tackled by stakeholders across the world and soon, teachers and learners will no longer have anything to hinder there screen time classes! There are so many reasons why naturally, the process of teaching and learning will not remain as it is presently. At The Future of Education Summit, starting with Lekki 2021 this June, we shall be discussion this new reality and bringing to the table, unique opportunities for teachers to start getting set for the future that is now upon us! You should join us. (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNhhHf7hTN3/?igshid=1ebar1b8wt55v

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I just got off the BRT and I was strolling towards the (CMS) church when this fantastically wonderful idea for The iSchool CLOUD hit me and it was so good that I had stopped, looked the 'Alayes' under the bridge, grinned at them, threw a few Yoruba slangs at them, got them laughing and secured a go-head to pull out my laptop and even though I had to squat, that's how I spent about 45 minutes right there, writing the codes into our Cloud Framework....😁😁😁 Happy Sunday! (at CMS Triangle) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNhUO1ohOsY/?igshid=1pgcz87q5rpgm

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Helping schools to computerize their academic and administrative processes is a very demanding job. It requires utmost patience and unbridled versatility. Any EdTech system that is designed without inputs from educators might create more problems than solutions for schools, teachers, learners and parents. In fact, every feature we have built so far into The iSchool CLOUD is a direct or indirect input from several educators we have worked with. That's why after 11 years of continuously building The iSchool CLOUD System, we have decided to partner with educators across Africa through our Software as a Service (SaaS) program which will be driven solely by a special Value Added Reseller Program for licensed educators. This June, at the next Future of Education Summit (Lekki 2021), we shall induct our first seat of partner educators and each will be licensed a reseller and equipped to start deploying Africa's #1 SMS + LMS + VSS for schools instantaneously! And here's what I have not said before: THE PROFIT MARGIN IS HUGE!!! And, yet, this is not just another rigid reseller program. No. Every licensed partner becomes an automatic stakeholder in the project and they will all be involved EVEN IN ALL FUTURE UPDATES, UPGRADES AND REDESIGNS of the system. Which means as a partner in The iSchool CLOUD Project, you will be able have a say in how the system works. So, when you deploy for your own clients, you will be giving them exactly what they need and not what our developers think they might want. It will all start at Lekki 2021. Make plans to join us. (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNaRhpkh7zw/?igshid=ggaluxthtk7j

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In the morning, I prototype. In the afternoon, I oversee things at the factory, workshop and lab. In the evening, long into the nights, I go back to being the lead developer, writing and vetting some new codes. At dawn, I sleep a little. In between, there's always time to grab a bite and rest the back, but almost nothing else! Running The iSchool CLOUD Framework with all the projects we are undertaking such is a huge commitment and very demanding, but I'm excited about the progress we are making on the daily... https://www.instagram.com/p/CNZXlLiBCuE/?igshid=5eizy8fy8axt

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I have had these pictures on my phone since Wednesday, June 19th, 2019 when I had excitedly trained my camera on the children for the inspirations they had sparked in me. I had gone to a welder's workshop somewhere inside Galadima, Abuja, Nigeria to get some stuff done when I saw these youngsters, struggling to understand something they were trying to study from pages of a textbook. I had listened to their individual arguments on the topic at hand and I came to realize that the problem was not their curios, confused minds, but the limitations of the textbook. As I continued to watch them from behind, my mind was racing and that day, before I left the boys to their textbook, I had found new convictions that have strengthened my resolve to make The iSchool CLOUD a perfect instrument for digitizing education in Africa. For example, if the textbook these kids were studying with had been The iSchool CLOUD MiltiBOOK, they would have been better off in so many ways. One, it wouldn't have been just a few bad static illustrations and text. They would have been able to study same topic by accessing hundreds of multimedia resources and several interactive tools that would have made it a lot more easier for them to understand the topic at hand. They would have been able to ask their teachers and even engage their classmates from across Africa to get further clarifications and instant answers on the topic! What they would have been able to accomplish with The iSchool CLOUD MultiBOOK would have been enormous. And that's why we have continued to invest massively (more than you could possibly imagine) on these many innovative things we are building. Like The MultiBOOK. But, it all starts with the ingenuity of our decision to makie educators stakeholders in the project by offering them opportunities to be involved in the design and deployment of the technology that's going to form the bedrock of digital teaching and learning in Africa. The nitty gritty of all this will be discussed at the next rounds of The Future of Education Summit, starting with Lekki 2021. Please make plans to be there! #educatorsarethedifferencemakers #educatorsareessential https://www.instagram.com/p/CNV4K5Chi1X/?igshid=nzhr1jcdhbsr

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#Lekki2021. Prepare to participate in The Future of Education Summit this June. There will be breakfast, some crucial conversations and most importantly, hands-on sessions on The iSchool CLOUD Saas (Software as a Service) Value Added Reseller Program for tech savvy educational consultants! As an educator, your role in advancement of education in your immediate community is about to transcend to technology integration. Imagine if you could design the rudiments of the tech solutions you will be deploying for your client schools. That exactly, is what this partnership is all about. Everything you need to know and everything you will ever need to start your own educational technology services are waiting for you at Lekki 2021! #TheiSchoolCLOUD #futureofeducation #Summit #Lekki2021 #educating #school #online #lovelearning (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNVR2sKB_hg/?igshid=moc3g47i4w2q

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Since we first deployed The ISchool CLOUD in January 2010 in Suleja Niger State, we have come a long way. In 2019, The African Union issued us a certificate of recognition as one of the topmost 40 technologies that will drive the commission's Agenda 2063 in the twin areas of quality education assurance and equal learning opportunities fo all. Just before that sank in, we were selected again as one of the top 10 innovators of education and that came with another laurel and a grand prize/award. Gratifying. Next in line is a United Nations recognition. Yet, we have quite a great many innovative solutions and revolutionary projects that have not taken off at full scale. One of such solutions is The ISchool CLOUD School & Learning Management System - our flagship project which till date is running exclusively only in a few partner schools. One major reason for this was because of our resolution to build to perfection, a complete system that will become the ideal computerization platform for education in Africa. So, over the years, we have ignored the market completely while we focused on research and development. But, the 2020 pandemic and the resultant lockdown had forced our hands, making us realize that the future of education is.now. That all the futuristic features we had been building will have to be released now at this critical point in the history of a new emerging educational system. Hence, we birthed The iSchool CLOUD Software as a Service program to be driven by seasoned, tech savvy educators that have established themselves as authorities in the industry. Through our special Value Added SaaS Reseller Program, we shall raise a new crop of educational consultants that will instill technology into the roots of teaching and learning in Africa. I dare say our elaborate, well laid plan for education in Africa is - at the long run - well deserving of a Nobel prize! (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNTIhX-B3wK/?igshid=19q8kouqwv6fl

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Since 2018, I have been hosting The Future of Education Summit, bringing together just a handful of forward-thinking likeminds in the education sector for breakfast and conversations about educational technology as solution to most of the problems confronting education in Africa. This year however, the summit is taking another dimension. One of the few positive things we can take from the 2020 pandemic is how appreciation for technology in education has taken quite a very sharp surge. When we talk about edutech now, it's no longer a futuristic concept we can only dream of.... The future we have been waiting for is now upon us and it's time for action. This June, I'll be hosting yet another edition of The Future of Education Summit in Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria. This time around, it's not going to be just breakfast and conversations. Lekki 2021 is going to be a cohort of seasoned tech savvy educators that will all be drafted into The ISchool CLOUD SaaS Program. You should also make plans to join us at this particular summit. Details coming shortly. #FutureofEducation #educationinafrica #educationforall #educationinnigeria #teachingandlearning #digitaleducation #educatorsofinstagram (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNSsnITBGn6/?igshid=1bv588z27duqb

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I have a dream that one day soon, education will become a complete digital process and teaching will become a sought after career. This is one of our targets at The iSchool CLOUDl and we are working hard towards achieving it! #Education #Teachers https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJyCrShLpe/?igshid=tl42yuz5lx6q

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In all the long, many years I have been deploying The iSchool CLOUD to schools across Nigeria, one important thing I have come to understand is that almost every good school has at least, one professional educator as external consultant that designs their administrative and academic processes. And these schools always follow such templates to the letter. Often times, in the quest for digitizing such schools' administrative and academic processes, conceptualization of the whole framework and workflow will still have to run through their consultants and quite frankly, in the end, these consultants are always responsible for even successful computerization of the schools! This makes me appreciate educators more and agree their inputs are quite essential to the growth of education in Africa! That's why after careful considerations and extensive consultations, I have concluded to relinquish the development, deployment, implementation and support services of our award winning School Management System; The iSchool CLOUD to these crop of experts through a special partnership that I will announce soon. In the nearest future, schools will only get our solutions from licensed educators and consultants. This important decision will further set us apart from the many newcomers that are flooding the EduTech sector now that COVID 19 has drawn attention to virtual. schooling! Partnering with top-notch educators and consultants across Africa will allow us to focus more technology while they will interface with schools AND ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THE SYSTEM UPDATES In the coming days, I'll be throwing more light on this exciting initiative, but if you are an educator and already, you can relate, get in touch as we are currently compiling a first batch of pioneer educators for this program. You are the one that should be deploying tech solutions that will actually work to schools not programmers who are absolutely clueless about academic processes... #educational #technology #educators #nigerianeducation #nigerianeducators #schoolsinlagos #schoolsinabuja #schoolsinlekki #edutech #schoolmanagementsystem #sms #saas #lms #ischool #cloud #onlineschooling (at Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNIS9F4BQrx/?igshid=1tpfygl9nc03e

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Announcing The iSchool CLOUD SaaS Value Added Reseller Program for tech savvy and accomplished educators.

If you have been consulting for schools over the years, helping them to align their operations with best practices, you must have realized lately that a huge tech vacuum has been created in the education sector as a fallout of the 2020 lockdown.

Schools are now scampering to have online portals.

Do not fold your arms and watch opportunistic tech peddlers to put half-baked solutions in the schools you have worked hard to help them attain certain standards.

Instead, you should key into The iSchool CLOUD SaaS Value Added Reseller Program today so you can launch your own edu tech operations and start deploying Africa’s #1 SMS+LMS+VSS framework for your schools.

This is a partnership that allows you break into the fast-growing edu tech space without having to build your own tech solution, yet you will be able to contribute to the overall solution.

In this first stage, we are looking to work with a few tech savvy educators of repute. If you’re one, send a brief expression of interest message now through WhatsApp: https://wa.me/message/DR3EDYLBEKTXH1

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