EduPoint

EduPoint leverages on an Artificial intelligence as it's innovative online platform that connect students with verified local teachers who deliver one-on-one lessons in any subject, skill or exam, to help students or learners meet their learning expectations and also enable passionate tutors to earn extra income. We help students find, evaluate, book and track lessons with competent teachers. Through this platform, we have been able to make personalized education accessible to millions of Africans to help them to achieve their learning goals and also creating a viable source of income and means of training for many teachers on the continent. We use other advanced technologies like ReactJS, Docker, GraphQL, JQuery, NodeJS and Progressive Web Apps which allows for fast deployment of solution that is very scalable across different platforms and users, and accessible to teachers and students in rural and urban communities even under low internet connectivity.

According to a report authored by Caerus Capital with support from Oxford Analytic & Parthenon-EY, there is a rising need of trained quality teachers to meet educational demands between 2012 and 2030. Thus, the average teacher: student ratio in Nigeria is 1:60 instead of 1:20 as recommended by the UN. This overwhelming class population density coupled with differences in student’s learning pace has resulted in a significant decline in learning outcomes of students in Nigeria over the past 10 years reducing exams success rates from 40% to less than 20% in major exams. Globally, conventional methods of education are transitioning from centralized to distributed, and from standardized to personalized. In Nigeria however, teachers struggle to provide high quality education as most often have 45-60 students in class which has led to poor classroom engagement a while millions of unemployed youths do not have access to teaching opportunities.

Most of our customers and teachers are parents, working professionals, school teachers, youths and students. Our customer segment is intentional, we offer both business to customer and business to business services. In Business to customer our prices ranges according to locations, almost 80% of our customer here are on the high income areas, while 20% is shared between middle and low income earners. In the business to business, we help consult for schools to build curriculum and also train and outsource teachers to them for improvement in learning and meeting of both academic and skills expectations.

EduPoint leverages on an Artificial intelligence as it's innovative online platform that connect students with verified local teachers who deliver one-on-one lessons in any subject, skill or exam, to help students or learners meet their learning expectations and also enable passionate tutors to earn extra income. We help students find, evaluate, book and track lessons with competent teachers. Through this platform, we have been able to make personalized education accessible to millions of Africans to help them to achieve their learning goals and also creating a viable source of income and means of training for many teachers on the continent. We use other advanced technologies like ReactJS, Docker, GraphQL, JQuery, NodeJS and Progressive Web Apps which allows for fast deployment of solution that is very scalable across different platforms and users, and accessible to teachers and students in rural and urban communities even under low internet connectivity.

EduPoint uses technology to make it easy to connect the best teachers with students to significantly improve learning outcomes.

If you wanted your son to learn Math. Before EduPoint, you will have to ask people if they knew a Math teacher which could take a while to find one. Now you simply request a teacher and are matched with vetted Math teachers near you. 

You can book lessons with your preferred teacher, keep track of your son’s lessons; receive detailed feedback of what he learnt each day and on his progress. This is the first of its kind in Africa.

EduPoinyis built on a robust technological backbone. 

Our web application is built with Django Python. We use other advanced technologies like ReactJS, Docker, GraphQL, JQuery, NodeJS and Progressive Web Apps which allows for fast deployment of solution that is very scalable across different platforms and users, and accessible to teachers and students in rural and urban communities even under low internet connectivity.

We are currently incorporating Artificial Intelligence to improve the process of matching students with the right option of teachers and optimizing the learning experience for students and teachers.

Globally, conventional methods of education are transitioning from centralized to distributed, and from standardized to personalized. Such trends have resulted in better learning outcomes for students.  In Nigeria however, teachers struggle to provide high quality education as most often have 45-60 students in class which has led to poor classroom engagement and the attendant low performance, while millions of unemployed youths do not have access to teaching opportunities.

EduPoint bridges this learning gap by providing an innovative online platform that connect students with the verified local teachers who deliver one-on-one lessons in any subject, skill or exam, in order to impact on their communities and earn extra income. We help students find, evaluate, book and track lessons with competent teachers. For instance, someone looking to learn the violin or improve in Math can easily connect and book lessons with a pre-vetted instructor nearby who is offering one-on-one violin or Math lessons.Through this platform, we hope to 

• make personalized education accessible to millions of Africans to help them to achieve their learning goals 
• create a viable source of income and means of training for many teachers on the continent.

Our vision is to ensure that there are no obstacles in the way of anyone who seeks to learn something important to them, and by so doing, also help teachers impact on more students and earn a viable income.

EduPoint has grown into a thriving community of over 10,000 tutors and more than 2,750 students and increased learning outcomes by more than 89% having delivered over 60,000 hours of learning and transacted over $250,000; of which 70-75% is paid as income to teachers most of whom include school teachers,unemployed graduates, students, youths and some professionals who love to teach.

EduPoint operates a very scalable model which can be easily expanded into new markets. Though we're currently operational in Nigeria and Ghana, we already have close to 2,000 intending tutors from Kenya, South Africa, Uganda and Egypt who have signed up to our waiting list to have a similar platform created in their countries.

Our 5-year vision is to build Africa's largest and most trusted peer-to-peer learning platform which helps millions of Africans significantly achieve their learning goals in almost any area of interest; while also creating a source of income and training for thousands of teachers across Africa.

Our vision is to ensure that there are no obstacles in the way of anyone who seeks to learn something important to them, and by so doing, also help teachers impact on more students and earn a viable income.

EduPoint operates a very scalable model which can be easily expanded into new markets. Though we're currently operational in Nigeria, we already have close to 2,000 intending tutors from Kenya, South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Egypt who have signed up to our waiting list to have a similar platform created in their countries.

Within 3 years, we expect to have commenced operations at least 6 African countries and have a network of over 350,000 verified teachers and learners. We expect to have trained about 50,000 teachers.

Our 5-year vision is to build Africa's largest and most trusted peer-to-peer learning platform which helps millions of Africans significantly achieve their learning goals in almost any area of interest; while also creating a source of income and training for thousands of teachers across Africa.

In our quest to build an innovative teacher-training program for Africa, some of the challenges we have encountered include a lack of well-seasoned resource educationists to help provide guidance as we structure the training content and curriculum, as well as some funding and technical limitations.

I am hopeful that through Solve we would be to connect with the right mentors, and possible partners to help us achieve our vision. According to UNESCO, Africa needs 16.7 million new primary teachers by 2030 which our current institutions cannot supply. We want to decentralize teacher training, and Solve's network can help us do so faster.

• Organizational Mentorship

Through organization mentorship, we hope to overcome the barriers that education currently face in Africa, as exchange programs and mentoring from successful educational organization from Solve, will help drive our vision further.

• Technology Mentorship

Technology mentorship and improvement of what currently exist is key for EduPoint, we know Solve and MIT are sophisticated in-terms of Technology usage and deployment and we hope to leverage on this for development of education.

• Connections to the MIT campus

The rich and wealth of experiences from members, trainers, mentors and experts of Solve and MIT is very valuable. This will help further validate our problems we are solving and also in the global adoption and acceptance of the solution we provide.

• Impact Measurement Validation and Support

Impact measurement validation and supports is key for EduPoint, as we desire to accountable to partners, advisors to help further and strengthen our processes.

Oscar (Chief Executive Officer) graduated with distinction in Environmental Biology from the University of Lagos, has 10+ years tutoring experience and previously worked at Unilever and Guinness Nigeria.

David (Chief Technological Officer), also graduated distinction in Software and Robotics Engineering, has 7+ years’ experience building enterprise software for Startups, Banks, and Telecoms, and was a top 3 finalist in Business-day Developer Challenge.

Lilian (Chief Operating Officer): Distinction  in Educational Management.

Femi (Chief Product Officer & UX-Designer): Honours in Mechanical Engineering Mercy (Chief Human Resource Officer):

Rofia ( Chief Marketing Officer): Graduate in Marketing and Mass Communication.

Contracts Staffs:

Over 2000 Tutors

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals.

We currently are partnering with top institutions like LEAP Africa, to help drive the all inclusive education and improvement of the economic standards of living for both our Tutors and Learners.

We also are working with FORD Foundation to drive educational advocacy and literacy to rural and under-served communities.

Finally we are currently partnering with Africa Innovation in conjunction with Royal Academy to help drive inclusive education in Africa.

EduPoint is for-profit company with a very strong social impact culture. Students pay 100% of the lesson fee to EduPoint at the start of the lesson, and EduPoint pays 70-75% to the tutor after lessons are completed. 25-30% is EduPoint's income. We also charge a one-time service fee of $8 for every request which is also an income to EduPoint. While EduPoint has a very strong, social impact element in its core which creates earning and learning opportunities for tutors and students respectively, we also earn income with a view to building a suitable, profitable business in Africa.

Through the educational services we provide to learners, we hope to scale our impacts, to have more learners enroll. This is will increase our income value. Also aside our business to customer model, we are also offering business to business model which will be easily scaled through offering our STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) program, in addition we teach and train school kids on programming, robotics, crafts and other vocation skill sets and also ensure we add it to their school curriculum.

I was a Solve finalist last year under the Workforce of the Future Challenge through MIT IIC. I'm applying again, primarily because I firmly believe that if selected as a Solver, I will be able to leverage Solve's network and resources to help EduPoint build a more robust educational company, as well as develop a high-quality teacher training program. We believe teachers are the most important determinants of a child's education - and Africa lacks a structured system that trains teachers. We want to build that platform, and I being a Solver will help us do a great job.

We will love to partner with Organizations like MIT, Solve, UNESCO and United Nations.

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals.

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals.

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals.

Our team is blend of top performers with a high level of performance and successful achievements from previous work place. In addition each team member is unique in his or her expertise of leadership and skill-set as we have team blend of Academicians and Educationist for creating the curriculum for learning, Marketers for ensuring we dominate the educational technology space in Nigeria and Africa at larger, Customer Developer to ensure we deliver well satisfied service to our customers who are learners, Technological Architect who designs and deploy the technological backbone upon which the company sits on, Human Resource Expert for recruiting and above all a versatile Sales Personnel who ensure partnerships and collaborative deals are close for development and sustainability of the company visions and goals.