Variety of Educational Technology Services in Indonesia

Online shopping has become part of the lifestyle of people in big cities in Indonesia. Similarly, the use of online transportation applications. All these habits formed in recent years. It expands and strengthens every year thanks to the growth of the startup industry in Indonesia. There is one more sector that is starting to grow and should have a positive impact on society. Learn online.

More and more startups are providing services for online learning in Indonesia. Starting from native Indonesian startups, such as Ruangguru, OurClass, Want to LearnWhat, to foreign services entering Indonesia, such as Quipper and Brainly.

There are many forms of business concepts and models that are carried out by each service provider. There is a concept course on demand, course live video call based (video call), to form a question and answer platform. All develop with their respective target markets and carry the same goal, changing the way of learning and facilitating access to learning.

Video on demand learning

A form of startup that carries the concept of video on demand this is quite a lot in Indonesia. It's even available for a variety of material types or levels learning. Ruangguru, one of the most popular educational technology services in Indonesia, has also started providing video content that users can play at any time.

Startup fronted by Adamas Belva Devara and Iman Usman it already has many features and services, one of which is Ruangbelajar which was inaugurated a year ago. This service allows users who subscribe to get access to video tutorials formulated by teachers, complete with curriculum and learning stages that are in accordance with the curriculum used by schools. The Ruangbelajar concept is also equipped with services Ruangguru On-the-Go, a collection of learning videos from Ruangguru presented in OTG storage format.

The same thing can also be found in the service Quipper Videos. Well Ruangguru and Quipper also both focus on formal learning, one of which is junior high and high school. Helping students graduate to find their dream university.

Concocting a similar concept but a slightly different segment is our Class, IndonesiaX, to Science Studies. Everything carries the concept on demand for the general public and professionals. Some offer free courses, some are in the form of premium courses.

This concept brings an element of high flexibility so that it does not interfere with the daily life of its users. Combined with curriculum, review, and evaluation, video on demand be an option to study outside an educational institution or formal institution.

Distance learning

One of the developments of learning with video is by direct learning through video calls (video call). This example is presented Squlines, services for learning diverse language. Included in the Squline service are learning English, Indonesian, Japanese, to Mandarin.

Usually this distance learning comes with a choice of class or private. Users will get a curriculum and access to a learning system (or often called a Learning Management System). There users can download materials, do evaluations, and view reports on learning outcomes.

In online learning, teachers or mentors are required to be "online" at the same time and day or adjust if different time zones. Furthermore, learning will be carried out through group or private video connections. Q&A through direct conversation (chat) and other interactions.

One of the advantages of learning concepts like this is that teachers can directly meet face to face and communicate with students so as to build an atmosphere like class offline in general.

Online to offline

Concept online to offline in fact it is not only owned by e-commerce services. In the education technology service sector, this concept has been promoted by several startups, including MauBelajarApa and Pintaria which were developed by HarukaEdu.

Want to LearnWhat carries the concept of a portal to find out information about organizing workshops or offline training with various categories. Registered users can directly register for any selected course or workshop and complete registration. Furthermore, the course will be held at the specified place offline.

While Pintaria, combine the concept of online learning (e-learning) with face-to-face meetings. Pintaria also offers (formal) lecture programs from several universities with e-learning and face-to-face methods. This online and offline concept usually combines the convenience of managing online materials, evaluation and curriculum with offline learning that can interact directly in class with mentors and other class members.

Lesson question and answer portal

The concept of this question and answer is quite unique. Brainly is the pioneer. This service develops a portal that allows users to help each other learn in the form of questions and answers. Users can ask and answer questions at the same time.

In Indonesia, Brainly is quite widely used by students. Well it's just to help in work homework or assignments. They can also use this platform to try to solve other users' problems. In its development, Brainly plans to present video content as a medium for explaining solutions to questions from its users.