Daptio: the SA startup personalising education with adaptive online courses

Online learning in South Africa is still in its infancy. Many regard the African continent as the next-frontier of online education where the market is showing signs of massive potential and room for investment. Daptio is on the supply side of this chain and hopes to “bring things back on track” by using deep analytics, and providing personalised learning to teachers, students and content creators in Africa and other emerging markets through its online software service.

UNISA (University of South Africa) has an annual pass rate of 15% says Bailey. That’s a worrying statistic for one of the country’s most widely-used tertiary institutions. Tabitha Bailey set out to challenge this, and in 2008 launched Together We Pass which currently helps around 4000 long distance students per year with their studies by connecting them with online study groups.

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