{"id":6411,"date":"2018-05-18T11:52:40","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T15:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/?p=6411"},"modified":"2018-09-28T14:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T18:40:18","slug":"eleap-optimizing-lms-learners-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/eleap-optimizing-lms-learners-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"How eLeaP Is Optimizing Its LMS for Learners in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In one sense, the process of educating and re-skilling learners is the same everywhere. But numerous factors, such as mobile infrastructure, access to devices, government regulation, and even geography factor in. Don Weobong, CEO and founder of the learning management system <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eleapsoftware.com\">eLeaP<\/a>, has been working to optimize his product for a West African context.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the third article in a series on edtech startups working in West Africa.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cData is a big deal. It\u2019s a bottle neck,\u201d Weobong said. \u201cWe recently signed a partnership with a firm in Ghana to deliver eLearning content to businesses as well as to individuals. To ensure that\u2019s a success, we need to provide content in multiple formats. Satellite video is great whenever possible but it&#8217;s more realistic for people to learn via offline content.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Optimizing eLeaP for Spotty Connections<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">One big factor currently in the works is switching from the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/scorm-executive-order-13111-clinton-administration-saved-elearning\/\">SCORM<\/a> standards implemented all the way back in the Clinton administration to Tin Can, also known as Experience API or xAPI. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe need to be able to provide the content but also to track and report in non-connected environments,&#8221; Weobong said. &#8220;Tin Can has proven to be much more adept at that. When someone is watching an offline video or consuming offline content or absorbing offline content on a mobile device with limited connectivity, that information can still be pushed out. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re working on next.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI\u2019m excited about deploying in Ghana and West Africa because that\u2019s where the biggest growth in the learning space is. We take a lot for granted here because there are a lot more options. But in a lot of places in the world, there aren\u2019t many options. So this is an opportunity for us to see if we can make a difference.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>A Tradition of Teaching<\/h1>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">eLeaP is based in Louisville, KY, but Weobong grew up in Ghana and maintains connections to the region. Both his parents are educators and run a school.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6412 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screen-shot-2018-05-18-at-11-43-42-am-1024x606.png\" alt=\"eleap\" width=\"477\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screen-shot-2018-05-18-at-11-43-42-am-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screen-shot-2018-05-18-at-11-43-42-am-300x177.png 300w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screen-shot-2018-05-18-at-11-43-42-am-768x454.png 768w, https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/screen-shot-2018-05-18-at-11-43-42-am.png 1187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/>\u201cGrowing up, learning was something that we pretty much did as a family tradition. I didn\u2019t start out trying to get into eLearning per se\u2014I wanted to get into tech. It happened that when I was finishing up my MBA, I took on a project to build an eLearning platform, which is how eLeaP was born. It was an academic exercise. When I was in Bellarmine University, we used Blackboard. I didn\u2019t quite like it very much and kept telling myself this is so convoluted and complicated to use. That was one of the reasons why I took on the project to build an eLearning system.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWhen I built eLeaP, I was telling my dad about it. Growing up, I always said I was going to be a big business man or a lawyer or some other field apart from teaching. I was so excited when I was telling him about eLeaP and how I help people learn and train people and all that stuff and he goes \u2018huh, really so\u2014is that education?\u2019 I said, \u2018yeah! Education.\u2019 And he said, \u2018It sounds like you\u2019re a teacher.\u2019 And I said, Oh I know where you\u2019re going with this.\u201d So it is kind of full circle. Because what we do here at eLeaP is to help people learn\u2014in a better way, we think, and provide more value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Okeke Vincent Chidozie, CEO and founder of DoviLearn (and the subject of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.elearninginside.com\/dovilearn\/\">previous article in this series<\/a>), spoke at length about the landscape of education in Nigeria. Weobong had a similar experience growing up in Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI went to a business university called the Institute of Professional Studies. One of the courses I took there was Management Information Systems. In the whole university, we had three working desktops. One was reserved for professors only. The other one was broken 90% of the time. And so all of us had to go crowd around one machine.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to get real talent, especially when it comes to coding. There\u2019s a real dearth of skilled workers. A lot of ideas just die on the vine because there\u2019s not enough local talent to bring them to product stage. There\u2019s a lot of opportunity there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Telania, the company that developed eLeaP, owns and operates eLearning Inside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Numerous factors, such as mobile infrastructure, access to devices, government regulation, and even geography factor in to the learning experience in any region. 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