Nigeria’s VarsityScape boosts course instructors with AI, live learning

by Digital Brainiacs
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Nigerian startup VarsityScape makes it easier for cohort-based course instructors to access all the tools they need to host a successful course using AI and live-learning technology.

Founded in 2019 by Daniel Idiare and Kenney Erimakonosine, VarsityScape began life as a platform for students in institutions of higher learning, before expanding into offering on-demand courses from instructors. 

However, it noticed that the completion rates of these massive open online courses (MOOCs) were low, at less than 15 per cent, while in some cases 70 per cent of the students who bought the courses ended up not taking them.  

“That was when we started offering cohort-based on-demand courses. This led us to notice the gap in the market,” Idiare told Disrupt Africa.

That gap was in allowing course instructors to more effectively host group-learning sessions, using live learning and AI technologies.

“By employing live learning technologies, we provide tools on our platform which enable instructors to…

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