EDATECH launches AI learning platform across sub-saharan africa

According to the company, this enables the platform to develop an evolving profile of each learner and recommend what the student should practise next.

The information is presented differently to students, teachers, parents and school leaders.

Students can monitor their learning paths, league standings and areas requiring improvement, while teachers receive class-level information such as learning-outcome heat maps, lesson plans and reports.

Parents receive information about their children’s performance in plain language, while school heads can query school-wide data using ordinary language.

The company said the system could also identify changes in a learner’s engagement, including declining effort or withdrawal, potentially allowing teachers to intervene before such issues become more serious.

The platform currently contains content covering 22 subjects and more than 120,000 questions based on the Nigerian curriculum, including examination-oriented materials aligned with the expectations of the West African Examinations Council, National Examinations Council and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

EDATECH said curricula from other countries could also be incorporated within days, allowing the platform to expand across Africa without imposing Nigeria’s curriculum on other education systems.

Benin City Trial Tests Platform

The January trial in Benin City provided an early test of the technology under challenging conditions, with more than 60 secondary schools participating in the competition.

Teams comprising two students, a teacher and a parent competed as a “Human Fusion Unit”.

Their performance was compared with answers generated by artificial intelligence on the same material, with the exercise testing whether human collaboration with AI could produce better results than AI operating alone.

Despite power and network failures during the event, participating schools continued with the competition, with Imaguero Secondary School emerging as the winner.

The school’s Principal, Nosa-Idiaru O. Y., said the experience demonstrated the importance of developing education technology capable of functioning within Nigeria’s infrastructure realities.

“The power went off, the network failed, and my students still competed on the same terms as everyone else in that hall and finished first,” the principal said.

“Knowing this is now open to any school that wants it is the most encouraging thing I have heard in education in a long time.”

EDATECH’s technology co-founder, Nnaemeka Akabogu, said ensuring that the platform remained dependable despite unreliable electricity and connectivity had been a major part of its development.

“Taking EDATECH into production meant a lot of hard work behind the scenes, much of it the kind nobody sees,” Akabogu said.

“But it matters, because schools need something they can count on.”

Edo Backs Wider Access to Digital Learning

For Edo State, which supported the January event, the expansion of the platform is expected to widen access to digital learning support beyond the initial pilot.

The state’s Chief Inspector of Education, Mercy Imasuen-Isibor, said the focus should remain on ensuring that students in public schools have access to quality learning support.

“Our interest is straightforward: that a child in a public school in Edo has the same access to good teaching support as a child anywhere else,” she said.

“Seeing this opened to every school, and not confined to a pilot, is a step towards that.”

Media entrepreneur and Creative-in-Residence at the London School of Economics, Chude Jideonwo, who advises EDATECH on communications, said the wider test of the technology would be its ability to function in ordinary schools rather than only during high-profile demonstrations.

“The test of anything built for African children is not whether it shines in a showcase, but whether it reaches an ordinary school on an ordinary morning,” Jideonwo said.

With the production launch, EDATECH said ẸDÁ is now available beyond the Benin City pilot, with the company positioning the platform as a tool for expanding personalised learning and integrating students, teachers, parents and school leaders within a single education system.