Osun State’s New Tablet PC: Opón Ìmò for Secondary School Students

The Osun State Government, in an amazing first towards digitization of study modes for secondary school students, has launched a tablet PC device, Opón Ìmò — Tablet of Knowledge — as preparatory for students towards this senior secondary education. According to the website; “The device, is a standalone e-learning tablet that provides the senior secondary students with the learning materials required to prepare for school leaving examinations. It provides 3 major content categories; Text Books, Tutorials and Practice Questions. 150,000 of these tablets are being distributed to all senior secondary students across state schools in a move that is expected to radically democratize ‘access’ to learning, regardless of means, location or status. “Opón Ìmò delivers compelling self- paced standalone courses, conducted in a highly interactive computer- based learning environment and synchronized to a library of relevant e-books and a computer- based testing environment. Opón Ìmò tackles the learning problem using contemporary ICTs, indigenous content while taking into account socially embedded factors accordingly.”

It features include: Android 4.0 Platform

• The Android 4.0 PC Tablet has a Dictionary, Bible, Koran and Health book. It also has development games such as chess, Sudoku and Tetris. It has 512MB of RAM and an internal storage capacity of 32GB.

E-book Library

• The E-book Library consists of 17 core subjects and 7 extracurricular subjects for senior secondary 1, 2 & 3 levels.

Virtual Classroom

• The Virtual Classroom consists of 17 subjects for senior secondary 1, 2 & 3 which, culminates into a total of 51 video tutorials made available to students.
• There are 823 chapters in total with about 900 minutes (or 15 hours) of audio voice-overs and an average of 16 chapters per course.

Integrated Test Zone

• The Integrated Test Zone makes available Mock Exam tests for 14 core subjects in WASSCE comprising of 10 years of past questions with an average of 500 questions each and approximately 1800 images.
• There are Practice tests for 46 courses with approximately 1220 chapters containing approximately 29,000 questions referencing approximately 825 images.