EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
The Problem
Poor Academic Performance!
Nigeria is battling with mass failure and poor
academic performance especially from secondary school students who participate
in WAEC and UTME. Quoting Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, “1,015,504
candidates registered for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
2014 with only 47 candidates scored 250 points and above while 108,488
candidates scored between 200 to 249 points out of total score of 400 points”(
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Admissions_and_Matriculation_board, 2014).
This poor performance is unacceptable which in the long run affects
National productivity. The current education system approach has proven faulty
in resolving this issue over the years.
It
also no gain saying that young Nigerians attention has drifted towards other
things apart from academics. Being studious in academic is no longer
fashionable, student just find various wrong means to pass without interest in
understanding the course of study. These trends have been enforced over the
years with the advent of electronic media and internet which gives unlimited
access to pure entertainments, sports and lots more.
The traditional means of
learning in a rigid classroom is now boring and no longer effective to student
that has already been over-exposed to fun and entertainment. This is a new
challenge definitely needs a new approach to make learning more effective.
The Solution-Magbodo
Magbodo
is an integrated solution to learning that infuses a sense of gaming which
offers fun, collaboration, competition and promotes creativity that is geared
towards improving students’ academic performance.
Business Description
Magbodo
(in Yoruba dialect translates as “don’t get zero”) is a free interactive online Computer Based Test (CBT) platform that
provides a competitive, unobtrusive test environment for students preparing for
tertiary education in Nigeria in a “Reward-Gaming-System.”
Why Magbodo?
Since the inception of Information Age, young
learners’ attentions have been drawn to the possibilities it provides. Many
attempts have been made by educators and service providers to improve students’
academic performance with e-learning platforms; however, they have failed to
achieve desired results. Magbodo brings the true classroom experience to e-learning
in a gaming environment which provides competition, collaboration and
communication for improved academic performance.
Business Objectives
Magbodo’s primary objective is to improve Nigeria
students’ academic performance by 10% yearly in fun filled environment and
provide Business Intelligent (BI) analytic both for educators and corporate
advertisers.
The secondary objectives are as follows
- Improve cognitive
and retentive abilities of student as they actively engaged in academic
competitions on our platform.
- We refine
traditional classroom experience tailoring with ICT to get student interested
and participating in the learning process in an environment that foster
collaboration, competition, creativity and fun .
- To promote and reward academic diligence among
Nigeria students in a pure gaming into learning.
- Aggregate 70% of young Nigerians between ages
13 to 24 years on our platform which can be reached for youth empowerment by
Cooperate bodies and Marketers.
The high level achievements
(HLAs) in the (long-term) objective encompass the following:
- Create
a social-academic ecosystem of about 10,000,000 (10 million) student by
2020 where student can learn, share, compete, collaborate and communicate
to provide creative solution to academic and social challenges.
- Stage continental
social-academic games involving nations in Africa by year 2016, the following
year 2017 will involve all the continents of the world.
- We
establish a Public Private Partnership that is youth-driven across the continent in order to harness
the natural resources; discover and nurture best brain to create
indigenous solution for Africa developmental challenges under Magbodo Academy
institute.
MAGBODO’s Vision
Initiating pioneering spirit/mindset within young people as a
catalyst for change and equipping with necessary tools for self and continental
productivity.
MAGBODO’s Mission
Create the largest social-academic ecosystem, which
redefines our approach towards learning and intellectual development for both
students and educators through a continental Reward-Game-System that fosters
competition, collaboration, communication and stimulate creativity.
How Mission is accomplished
MAGBODO Methodology-Basic Strategy
- Create free opportunities for young leaners in an intellectually
stimulating gaming environment where learners test and prepare for various
social-academic challenges or exams.
- Bring the basic attributes of traditional
classroom in to e-learning which are competition, collaboration, communication in a
fun filled environment that stimulates creativity, where student
participate in the process of learning.
- Inspire young people to be knowledge hunters
for the purpose of manipulating facts, making deductions and creative
inferences that can give birth to market-driven innovations to solve the
global challenges.
- Solicit and secure public and private
organizations commitment to provide sponsorships and “grants” to support
the Magbodo Institute programs.
- Monitor-evaluate the student
effectiveness through Business Intelligent and analytic and provide such
data to educators and governments to enhance better planning for the
populace education needs.
Mantra
Learning for productivity…
For Sponsorship and support info@magbodo.com
