Education and Prosperity through Technology – Case of Virtual Education Limited, Nigeria

There is said to be a greater dependency of Education and Culture on each other. Both culture and education have impact on development of individual, community or Nation. Term Culture understood as distinctive ways how people living differently express and conduct things. It translates into the identity of the community. Education system of a nation comprises of learning, teaching, training and research in formal or informal ways. Development in the nation spreads all around including culture and education and era of internet and technology almost every sphere is affected. Use of information and communication technology (ICT) and interactive media in education is referred as e-learning. E learning has extensively affected the way of classroom learning and many schools are using it as pedagogy. This paper is an attempt to present ICT opportunities and challenges in Nigeria with special reference to the case of Virtual Education Ltd (VEL). VEL is among the first few delivering computer based learning and e-learning solutions to schools in Nigeria. VEL has been a success case study in-spite of all the challenges it faced of a developing African country.