Project Hogwarts

Content

Students / Parents : Getting the kid over major exam hurdles so that they get into their school / university of choice
Students : Often streched for time with schoolwork and CCAs
Students : Tutition and assessment work is not fun. Low motivation
Parents : Time-starved parents have to learn the topics themselves, explain and mark assessments.
Parents : Busy parents have a hard time tracking kid's progress.
Educators : Getting data on students / curriculum content in the long term.

To build an ed-tech assessment platform that can help resolve some of the issues above.

Tuition market in Singapore is worth over a S$1 billion a year (2016 statistics).

E-learning component in learning management systems(LMS), be it video, interactive, or gamified.
E-assessment component in LMS, where it can help with marking and workload.
Video telephony solutions, where teachers don't need a physical space but still connect with students.
On-demand question answering by tutors.
Tution teacher matching solutions, where platforms simply place students with match pricing.
Adaptive Learning, the latest buzzword in ed-tech where students can learn at their own pace and the content adapts to them.

Video telephony / on-demand answers / tutor matching

Tenopy. Used to do student-tutor matching platform, now working on VoIP ed-tech platform.
Snapask. Ask tutors and get your questions worked out.
Start Tuition. Student-tutor matching.
SchTutors. Student-tutor matching
Grabtuition. Student-tutor matching.

E-learning / e-assessment

Go-easel. Started in 2011 by Popular Bookstore
Tutate. Started in 2013 by Amoeba Software Studio
Koobits. Very similar to CueMaths. They used to have an assessment portion, but this has been discontinued.
Singapore Student Learning Space(SLS). Initiative by MOE, and they are spending millions on this.

A quick look at the market shows that e-assessment solutions seem to be more online stores for physical assessment books than assessment platforms.

They may have started as online ed-tech but have moved to physical books. A curriculum / content issue?

Of all the various different types of ed-tech available, is e-assessment the closest to Stalford's current business?
For e-learning pacakages you will go head-to-head with the behemoth that is SLS.
VoIP, tutor matching is all about bringing down the price point (not really about convenience).
Adaptive learning is too new that it lacks research results to show that it works for students.

At base level, something similar to good assessment books requires good marking key that explains things. Auto marking to save parent's time could be a key issue.
Designed for tablets / mobiles in mind. Each assessment is broken up into friendly mobile chunks for the kid to do.
Onboarding: Designing rewards (e.g. more mobile game time), input of assessment schedule for the kid (e.g. 3 times a week, etc.). Psychology rewards used to motivate kids.
Time-based notification reminders to do assessment - can setup such that there is a parent notification.

Market research: Can Stalford do a survey of parents to find out what is their biggest pain point?
Why are e-assessment platforms in Singapore mainly online stores to sell assessment books?

To discuss. Find out ways to merge the use of the ed-tech app with real world tuition classes.

To discuss.

Potentially become a marketplace, where you become a publisher of various content. I suspect this is a hurdle though.

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