Mariatou Koné, the Ivorian Minister of National Education and Literacy, officially launched “My school at home,” a digital portal intended for distance education, in Abidjan.
The new platform, accessible at www.ecole-ci.online, intends to assist schooled and unschooled students in their everyday study. The debut of the new platform has multiple implications.
“The first is that Côte d’Ivoire has long been active in remote education efforts, and the government plans to continue developing this digital and innovative educational offering. Second, the Ivorian government openly distributes lectures, exercises, films, and even textbooks to students, parents, and teachers, by consulting the platform on a frequent basis. It is primarily instructive and serves as an interactive discourse tool,” Mariatou Koné stated.
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Côte d’Ivoire, in reality, has been working for several years to digitise its education system. Following the country’s politico-military crisis in 2004, which resulted in school closures, the Ivorian administration considered dematerializing education. Several projects in this area have sprouted up across the country. The Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 increased the activity begun earlier by education authorities.
One of the ideas created from Covid-19 is the “My school at home” portal. It is a compilation of all national educational resources. It contains over 4,000 lesson sheets, 5,000 exercises, primary school manuals, 624 instructional capsules of no more than 15 minutes in length summarising whole lessons, 2,000 interactive exercises (Quiz), and at least 150 practical work sheets.
According to Marc Vincent, Unicef’s representative in Côte d’Ivoire, this platform will help over 6 million children in preschool, primary school, and general secondary school. “This is the first project of its kind on the African continent. Côte d’Ivoire now positions itself as Africa’s technological leader,” he went on to say.
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