Learning Curve storms Nigeria with Digital Classroom

A Digital Classroom

By Prince Osuagwu

In what appears another endorsement of Nigeria as the West African hub for intellectual information and communication technology, Learning Curve, has introduced the celebrated and highly commended digital teaching aid, Door to the Digital classroom which has recorded tremendous success in countries like South Africa, Botswana, Senegal and Zambia, among other southern African countries.
The company, an Adobe Platinum Partner also established an office in Lagos to take care of the entire sub-region.
The innovative software designed for educational institutions is coming into the country after a long negotiated agreement with Adobe, which now allows it to present the very cost-effective new licensing programme into Nigeria and by extension to the rest of West Africa.
Managing Director of Learning Curve Mr. Tim Smith, who is also in Nigeria for a demonstration of the of the training product said that, “our high school programme called the Door to the Digital classroom is very extensive and works on the basis of a consolidated range of products from Adobe who have the vision of what can happen when you give children the opportunity to go wild and create.”
Tested and proven over the years, these applications according to Smith who is instrumental to the development of the concepts can be used in the industry to help teach vocational skills and are used extensively in art, design and IT web authoring.
Designed to run on either a mac or windows environments, the Adobe Learning Curve Kit contains among other things total training DVDs for all applications.
Considering the range of students which the product aims at training – late primary to secondary school, the Learning Curve package has in it the quite popular Academia Skills builder which is a range of flash games that help learning of subjects like Mathematics, English language and Geography.
There are also locally developed lesson plans for Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Acrobat with a promise of including the Illustrator to complete the quite didactic nature of the bundle.
And for parents who are desirous of bringing up their children to join the global league of highly competent ICT users, the product helps the schools become accredited testing centres for the Adobe Certified Associate examinations which will give the children an internationally accepted qualification of competence.
According to the company’s Country Director, Mr. Michael Oseji ,“it has become imperative that this country joins the rest of the world in adopting 21st Century skills in classroom learning, otherwise the world would leave us behind and we would be forced to catch up again,” Oseji said.