The initiative has several advantages over the multimedia. One of them is its ability to increase the proficiency level of students using the Smartclass. My experience teaching language and theatre using Robotel SmartClass+ is different, classic and unique. I have used different multimedia tools for about a decade of my career, this initiative enables students to practice whenever and wherever they have available time. The facility gives students every opportunity to improve their language skills by providing access to all learning materials from any device. The students see and feel it whenever we are in the class. It is the most simple of all teaching tools I have seen and used in the last decade. I can monitor each student in my class from my computer, paying special attention to each of them without wasting time. Also, the whole package has upgraded our status as it earned us the accreditation of all our courses.

The availability of the Language Laboratory in the institution had added value to the quality of education, noting that it had enhanced the students’ knowledge and confidence among their counterparts. The facility has exposed the intellectual ability of the students and also helped make the learning process become more flexible to them. They have been able to operate it with less supervision. More so, the lecturers have more digitalised teaching methods on howto aid their courses.

From language laboratories to classroom-based self-study, Robotel SmartClass+ is indeed a blessing, despite lack of infrastructure like irregular electricity supply. Babcock is another discerning stakeholder that has embraced the technology. We applaud Robotel Incorporated, a Canadian based teaching solution developer, for its intervention to facilitate teaching and learning in the country. Having used the conventional multimedia tools for years, the higher institution had to dispose the old tools when it came across Topteck Services limited, the Nigerian partner of Robotel and a technology services firm.

The facility allows us to do internet-based self-study without hitches, using devices like laptop computers, netbooks, iPads, Android devices and other smartphones. The total package is a modern technology that is simple with more functions and robust than the multimedia tools we were using. Due to our commitment to excellence and offering qualitative education to our students, we couldn’t have settled for less.

From the demonstration made at the Robotel Town hall meeting, we decided to turn to technology to enhance teaching and learning in our school. We have since joined the league of potential patrons of the 21st century digital classroom. This is because the conventional teaching methods used in public and private educational institutions in developing and under-developed nations put a strain on the ability of students to learn faster. The current tools used in higher institutions limits the scope of teaching and learning of teachers and their students, which I believe hinders the students from competing favourably with their counterparts from developed countries. Any investor or proprietor that wants to build a citadel of learning must adopt new strategies in order to build a formidable brand. We have installed Robotel SmartClass+ which has made teaching / learning more interactive.

A language course of any type is not complete until there is a language laboratory. It’s very useful in the teaching of languages so people can understand the basic rudiments of the phonetics and phonological structures of the language. This is so that our teaching of the language will not be theoretical, but practical.

We have 30 sets of work – station. The language laboratory is a major component of our language programme courses and it is a pre-requisite for achieving a first class. The laboratory can be used by all students particularly for their language studies.