Pragmatic Gbengus

“ For the first time ever, I will be visiting Nigeria this week ( 23 rd to 25 th November) meeting Alison Graduate in Abuja and Lagos. I am tremendously excited - not least about meeting some of our 300,000 learners in Nigeria.” These are the words of Mike Feerick , Alison Founder & CEO - Alison has been providing free access for years and for the first time , Mike Feerick will be visiting Nigeria to interact with learners   speak with journalist and other interested persons about how the Alison   learning platform can be further popularized as far as I know , Alison is the only platform offering free learning. Alison CEO Mike Feerick travels for the first time to Nigeria this week to meet Alison Graduates and to learn about one of the world’s fastest growing education markets. With 300,000 learners and many tens of thousands of graduates, Nigeria is an increasingly important market for Alison – and one where Alison’s free learning model holds enormous p...

I am sure you are familiar with the saying, “If education is expensive, try ignorance.” Yea. Quite true to some extent, but this is becoming a thing of the past with the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Online learning or online university or online classroom (if you like it that way) is changing the learning paradigm as the barriers to access education like school fees, distance, textbooks, learning costs, and even classroom is fast petering out with online learning like: Alison, Edx, Novo Ed, Udacity, Cousera, Havard Open Courses, MIT Open Courses, Khan Academy, Academia, Academic Earth, Acade.me, +Acumen, Aliversity, Udacity, Future Learn, FX Academy, Grovo, Iversity, Janux and other MOOCs.   MOOC or online learning access is a new innovation that is gradually making learning richly accesslble. Of all the MOOC sites that I am familiar with, Alison ( www.alison.com ) is one of the most popular free online learning access. Many are familiar with ALISON,...