With COVID-19 going rampant around the world, it’s obvious that connection is the only thing that keeps us going, aside from essential workers and healthcare professionals on the frontline.
With public places closed down, all work-related activities are forced to find a rhythm at home, and so do training, seminars, and gatherings for learning.
If you are someone who loves to fill your downtime with learnings or want to master new skills altogether, then the circuit break, social distancing, or whatever terms used, may hinder you from doing the physical co-learning thing.
But the beauty of technology is that you can do (almost) anything just from the comfort of your gadget. COVID-19 has eliminated the need for physical meetings for learning, so these guys have the chance to shine.
FutureLab
FutureLab is an online mentorship and webinars platform that offers a chance to diversify solutions for the customers of businesses. In an article published in The Edge Market, the company said it was built for its enterprise clients to introduce mentorship internally and to ensure that there is succession planning.
The company was co-founded and CEO Brian Tan. In the interview, the FutureLab team revealed that they stumbled upon the business model as a new revenue stream by chance.
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“They wanted to use their mentors but needed our platform. So, we repackaged it for them in two weeks and realised that it was an interesting concept where we could build and customise community mentoring platforms for individual business clients,” Tan said to The Edge Market.
Started as a mentor marketplace for the public to connect experienced mentors to mentees looking for help, it has now become a digital learning ecosystem targeting high schools, universities, and companies to come on board to join.
FutureLab’s enterprise solutions integrate educational institutions with companies and incubators to create what’s called a digital learning ecosystem, allowing mentees to create connections. Meanwhile, corporate clients can tap the new talents entering the market.
For companies using the service, it can use it to organise management training programmes through the platform and add their internal mentors and mentees. HR (human resources) department can track interactions and there is also an event tool to create workshops and community events.
MyClaaz
MyClaaz offers a flexible experience for tuition and professional learning on both the web and app, providing a one-to-one private home and online learning matching service for multiple levels.
MyClaaz allows users to become a student, learner, trainer, and tutor from wherever they are.
Besides offering Malaysia’s school-level and university subjects, the platform also offers what it calls professional subjects that cover business planning, copywriting, corporate financing, designing, accounting, and more.
The Malaysia-based company also offers public interest subjects, such as coding, public speaking, sports, cooking, baking, knitting, sewing, and languages.
To use the platform, users simply search for a preferred nearby tutor by using its tutor’s special map locator. Apps will pinpoint the users with the perfect tutor according to their preferences.
Then, users are free to select the learning service, whether it’s a video recorded teaching, notes, samples of exam’s question, real-time online teaching and problem solving, and home tutoring, which is not an option during the pandemic.
Learncool
Learncool enables knowledge sharing, regular online meetups, training, and bite-sized self-study. It seeks to spark collaboration, especially during the COVID-19 crisis, to assist with holding meet-ups online.
The Singapore-based edutech platform allows users to create a group, share the meeting code, click join conference button in-app, or web app. It targets organisations, such as toastmasters, yoga clubs, training groups, meetups, and hundreds of other such organisations to strengthen their value to customers.
Learncool also assists users in learning and teaching using recordable video conference from anywhere. It also offers shareable video creation with collaboration features as well as a community-building tool through a monetisation option for advanced content and training.
Akadasia
Singapore-based Akadasia explains itself as “a group of experienced educators, entrepreneurs, creative thinkers, and technology professionals who are on a mission to provide free access to a good, quality education to all”.
Akadasia’s education service has an end goal to open up path for employment or financial support needed to start small businesses that could help the users improve the lives for themselves, their families, and the community at large.
It facilitates teachers to learn ways to engage students online, content creators to assist them in distributing content to learners through FREEJO, and technology partners to help them integrate their technology solutions right into FREEJOO for access by our users.
ProSpark
ProSpark is a Singapore-based e-learning platform for businesses. It has closed a pre-seed funding round led by early-stage venture capital firm Agaeti Ventures with participation from angel investor Adi Adisaputro and Prasetia Dwidharma, a telecom infrastructure developer and early-stage investment firm.
ProSpark was founded in 2018 with a mission to provide a business-to-business learning management system that allows employees to access individual or group training online. It gamifies the system with leadership boards, badges, and a points system.
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ProSpark lets companies onboard, train, and certify their employees. It also enables to conduct knowledge transfer and collaboration. The startup’s main market is Indonesia with priority sectors being banking and insurance.
With much in-person training being cancelled and companies looking for cheaper and more efficient ways to train people, these firma are seeing even higher demands than before.
Even before the pandemic, the global corporate e-learning sector is already expected to grow to US$30 billion by 2022 at a 13 per cent compound annual growth rate, according to Market Research Future. It’s safe to say that the pandemic just re-confirm that the e-learning sector’s position in the market is to be one of the most crisis-proof and sustainable.
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