Half of Quipper School’s One Million Students Are Indonesians

After being operated for six months in Indonesia, London-based e-learning platform Quipper School claimed that half of its one million users come from Indonesia. Thus, the team target to have three million students from Indonesia this year. Continue reading Half of Quipper School’s One Million Students Are Indonesians

Separuh dari Satu Juta Siswa Pengguna Quipper School secara Global adalah Siswa Indonesia

Setelah beroperasi sekitar enam bulan di Indonesia, startup penyedia layanan e-learning gratis yang berpusat di London Quipper School menyatakan separuh dari satu juta penggunanya adalah siswa Indonesia. Tahun ini mereka menargetkan memiliki tiga juta pengguna dari Indonesia saja.

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Brainly’s Users in Asia are One-Fifth of Its Total Users Worldwide

World’s biggest online learning platform, Brainly, gloriously gathered seven mill new users in Asia during 2014. After being reported to have 650 thousand users in Indonesia couple of months ago, now the number of their customers in the country is almost as much as in Russia and Poland. Continue reading Brainly’s Users in Asia are One-Fifth of Its Total Users Worldwide

HarukaEdu Perpanjang Daftar Layanan Pendidikan Online yang Mendapat Investasi

Startup bidang pendidikan di Indonesia saat ini nampaknya tengah bersinar. Satu persatu mulai mendapatkan perhatian investor untuk mengembangkan layanannya. Setelah Ruangguru dan Kelase, kini HarukaEdu mengumumkan investasi seri A dari CyberAgent Ventures dengan nominal yang tidak dibuka untuk umum.

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Wikasa Tak Mau Tunggu Pasar “Online Learning” Matang

Wikasa yang berada di bawah naungan PT. Qometlabs adalah situs yang menyediakan pembelajaran online (online learning). Mengunjungi situs ini, pengguna akan menemukan sekumpulan kursus yang yang dipilihkan atau dikurasi berasal dari perkuliahan universitas ternama seperti Tufts, Oxford, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), UC Berkeley, atau kursus gratis yang disediakan situs bisnis Docstoc serta GCFLearnFree.

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Did the Indonesian government order Telkomsel and XL to block news website Asia Sentinel?

In the past two days, there had been suspicion of online censorship that came from the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Informatics. Mobile subscribers trying to access news website Asia Sentinel had been prevented from doing so if they were connecting using Telkomsel or XL numbers. There hasn’t been any clear reason as to why access to this website was being blocked, and why only on Telkomsel and XL networks. The news site is still accessible using other networks and landline connections.

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MasukNegeri Aims to Help Student Enter State University

To be a student of State University is the target of most high school graduates in Indonesia. Every year, ten thousands of students take the State University National Selection Exam – Seleksi Nasional Masuk Perguruan Tinggi Negeri (SNMPTN) to continue their studies to the State University. The chance to help these ten thousands students to realize their dream to enter State University is seen by PT Kreasi Online Indonesia (Suitmedia).

Suitmedia launches MasukNegeri,com. This portal provides various exercise sheets that can be tried by students who will take the SNMPTN. Student gets to know their abilities through the point they get from the exercise sheet in MasukNegeri.com. Every exercise result will be recorded so user can see their progress before taking the real SNMPTN. The result can be also be compared to other student user of MasukNegeri.com.

MasukNegeri.com actually has been there since 2010. But because of technical proble,. MasukNegeri.com’s service had to be shut down and reopened on April this year.

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Ngajarin: Interactive Education Service in the Form of Online Playgroup

As usual, I was checking out Startuplokal Showcase and this time I found a child learning project which I think has a pretty interesting visual display. It’s called Ngajar.in [a colloquial term for teaching -Ed].

Ngajar.in can be briefly described as a learning media for children aged 2-6 years and provides facilities for parents who want to teach their children things with the help of the internet. On this site, you or your child can do a couple of things like coloring or playing simple educational games. There several types of options/educational games that can be enjoyed. Among others are lingual, social, logic, musical, visual, kinetic, natural, personal and spiritual. Some of the menus have been accessible but there are some that have not been further developed.

Due to my interest in the visual aspect of this site I contacted Ngajar.in’s initiator, Satriyo Niti Atmojo. Satriyo explained that Ngajar.in was originally a casual project but after a month of work, he managed to add people to work on Ngajar.in, among others, Samuel Philips Kawuwung, Iqqi Phoenix and Fly – all of whom are bloggers from Surabaya – to develop the learning media. Satriyo is currently developing a design studio in Surabaya called Vordaya.

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Why Educating the Market Might No Longer Be Relevant

As the e-commerce industry grow, we often see a lot of e-commerce companies trying to bring the e-commerce behavior to a new audience in the country. An emerging country like Indonesia, with all its growing economy and immature internet population is often seen as a target to market conversion.

We’ve seen the signs where big e-commerce players in the country pouring their best efforts to “educate” the market about the benefit of e-commerce, to browse for products, how to pay for stuff online, etc. Millions and millions of dollars are thrown via TV commercials, live TV shows, offline campaigns, etc. again to “educate” the market for the past 3 years but the results are yet to be seen.

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