The global outbreak of COVID-19 has deconstructed human life. Thus, it is no surprise that the methods of educating and receiving education have changed. One example in which the pandemic has significantly transformed education is the establishment of massive, across-the-board distance learning policies.
In Indonesia alone, the Minister of Education reported that schools in 94% of the region (429 cities) have halted operations, resulting in a major shift in children’s learning behaviors. The effects of such change present a challenge for parents as well: how can they ensure academic guidance for their children without being around teachers in school?
Such rise of a new normal presents new challenges as well. So do new opportunities.
Today, in the hopes of increasing learning effectiveness for students at home, Ruangguru announces the launch of Brain Academy Online, a facility that provides students ease and flexibility in accessing daily interactions with teachers via live teaching methods and video calls. Brain Academy Online aims to assist students in excelling learning activities at home and maintaining academic support from teachers.
“With the switch to schooling from home, students and parents are challenged to come up with effective learning habits. Since the implementation of social distancing and large-scale social restrictions [PSBB] policies in various regions across Indonesia, we have received a lot of inputs from parents that they find difficulties in allocating time and effort to assist their children’s learning process, like teachers do in school,” Ritchie Goenawan, Ruangguru’s Vice President of Business & Operations, said.
“We hope Brain Academy Online can become a solution for parents and students, by providing facilities that ease access for children to communicate, interact, and receive direct guidance from teachers,” Goenawan added.
Through Brain Academy Online, students can communicate directly with and learn from Star Master Teachers (MT), some of the most qualified teachers with a degree from the best teacher schools and universities in the country, with the following facilities:
Intensive Homework Clinic
Individual weekly sessions with an MT where students can dissect and discuss homework, quizzes, and exam prep materials via video call.
Interactive Live Teaching
In a webinar setting with a number of students, an MT teaches subjects and materials relevant to college entrance exams as well as school subjects such as Math, Economics, Physics, Chemistry, English, and others, in real time. Students can schedule between 3 to 6 90-minute live teaching classes weekly.
Direct Academic Consultation
Individual sessions with an MT where students can discuss and brainstorm learning strategies, college options, and other supporting subjects with MT and Brain Academy’s educational counselors via video call. Academic consultation sessions are readily available at students’ disposal according to their needs.
Motivational and supplementary classes
In a webinar setting with a number of students, a facilitator discuss and explores soft skills subjects such as public speaking and content creation. Students can schedule a monthly two-hour motivational and supplementary class according to availability.
In addition to the array of facilities mentioned above, Brain Academy Online users also have access to hundreds of thousands of learning videos, practice questions, summaries, infographics, and quizzes through the ruangbelajar feature in the Ruangguru mobile learning application.
Students can start enrolling in Brain Academy Online beginning July 1, 2020 at the official Brain Academy website.
