Chinese Online Learning Platform ClassIn and Sony Global Education Team up to Develop Japan’s Post-Pandemic Teaching System
EEO (Empower Education Online) and Sony Global Education have formed a strategic alliance that will utilise EEO’s, and the world’s largest interactive online education platform, ClassIn, to build a complete OMO (Online-merge-Offline) teaching framework for Japan’s education system.
With the coronavirus pandemic having stabilized in the country, Japan’s students have been returning to school since early April. Most schools are now reopened.
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Yet the sudden school closures announced at the end of February that plunged the country’s schools, teachers, students and their parents into a mad scramble for alternatives, exposed the fact that Japan had fallen behind much of the world in introducing technology into the classroom, regardless of a global reputation for innovation.
Once the restrictions and mass lockdowns intended to stop the spread of Covid-19 began being enforced in China in February, then in Japan, South Korea and other countries, EEO’s online learning platform ClassIn witnessed a sudden explosion in usage and business, as schools clutched at new online solutions to keep children in class.
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The number of overseas clients, mostly educational institutions in South-East Asia, doubled following the outbreak, while new business continues to emerge from countries such as Indonesia, Vietnam and Singapore.
ClassIn, with its capacity to be adopted across many different learning environments, is, in fact, tailor-made to a global pandemic.
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