Educating Out-of-School Children in North Western Nigeria through Open Schooling: A Case for Using Mobile Technologies
Fatima Shehu Kabir · International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science · 2024
In today’s technologically enabled global culture, open schooling has become one of the recognized delivery modalities for both formal and non-formal education. Furthermore, tablets, mobile phones, and other digital gadgets are now tiny enough to fit in pockets, connecting users to information sources and encouraging learning at any time and from any location suitable for Nigeria’s out-of-school children who are ever-increasing due to fragility. Conflict and violence (FCV). This is a review paper which describes the usage of mobile devices in Nigeria’s informal education sector. Materials used were from several databases: Google scholar, Web of Science, EBSCO, and ERIC. Major findings pointed out that there were successful ICT integrated projects in several developed countries. The paper made a recommendation for the utilization of mobile technology to boost the effectiveness of Nigeria’s open schooling Initiative, for its thirteen million children not attending formal schools.