Fusion Mobile Nigeria Limited
Fusion Mobile Nigeria Limited is an educational organization created in 2012 by Dr Odum Ikechukwu to provide "world-class education for Africa with primary focus on Nigeria." Its mobile App features thousands of educational resources, including a personalized learning dashboard, over 100,000 practice problems, and over 2,000 micro lectures via video tutorials in the app teaching mathematics, Use of English, physics, chemistry, biology, government, finance, art history, economics, music, and computer science. All resources are available to anyone around the world.
History
In 2012, Dr Odum Ikechukwu and Emmanuel Uche founded and launched Fusion Mobile, an m-Learning startup with an aim to mimic Khan Academy’s success by delivering a wide range of m-Learning materials, from interactive quizzes to Mobile Video Lectures across Nigeria. In 2012, as Ikechukwu was about graduating from medical school, he started teaching a couple of students preparing for WAEC and JAMB exams in his church. He discovered that the students, especially those who attended government schools didn't know much and had a poor academic background. He started researching on ways to help bring them up to speed. During the course of his research, he stumbled on Khan Academy and knew a modification of Khans method would go a long way to solve the problem. The platform would not run on YouTube as the students in Nigeria have little or no access to the internet to stream videos. This was the birth of Fusion Mobile.
Products and services
Fusion Mobile Nig’s product categories include:
- e-Learning & M-learning
- Mobile Electronic health record
- cheapSMS
Mission
Bringing Quality e-learning experience on the Go to every Nigerian Student at the comfort of their phones, tablets and computers. We strive to fill the need for quality education in a virtual learning environment.
Educational Impact
Many companies and foundations and the Ministry of Education, Nigeria commend Fusion Mobile's model of online education on its technological ingenuity and its ability to introduce different educational dynamics. However, both the cost and the realistic implementation of this ideal has been a problem. Fusion Mobile relies on support from individuals and associations to fund the company. The Fusion Mobile m-learning platform is now in the market at N8000 i.e. about $50.
See also
- E-learning
- Instructional simulation
- International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning
- mHealth
- Offline mobile learning
- Smartphone
- Fusion Mobile | Nigeria's Mobile m-Learning Platform