On the Learning Innovation Summit in March 2018, Mr. Sihol Aritonang from the Tanoto Foundation and Ms. Stephanie Hardjo from Ruangguru explained their joint effort in creating a teacher training mobile application, Ruangbelajar for teacher. The platform improves teacher competency through curated videos and quizzes that were developed based on Tanoto Foundation’s teacher training modules.

During his opening introduction, Mr. Aritonang stressed on the need for more concentrated efforts towards alleviating poor results of the current education, mentioning that, “according to PISA statistics, Indonesia ranks among the bottom 10 percent of countries in PISA results. Small-scale solutions are not enough; we need a breakthrough.”

Over the past 7 years, Tanoto Foundation has invested in elevating the quality of education in rural regions through their Pelita Pendidikan program. Over 518 schools and 5,100 teachers have received the benefits.  Even though results have been optimistic, scale remains a concern. In the face of today’s technologically-disruptive world, Tanoto Foundation looked out for “using technology as an enabler”.

On the other side, Ruangguru has quite an expertise in EdTech. Since its inception in 2014, their e-learning software has benefited students and teachers nation-wide. To date, it has 7.5 million users across 32 provinces in Indonesia.

Through this collaboration, teacher training in overall can now be administered more effectively towards a greater audience, regardless of time and space boundary. Just last February, teachers of Pesantren Tebuireng in Jombang were mentored on how to effectively use Ruangbelajar for teacher. More of such workshop will be conducted by Ruangguru.

With knowledge-sharing, both parties are able to tap into the expertise of others and both stand to gain. There certainly is great potential in expanding individual education-enhancement programs by collaborating with other partners of specific specialisations. In this way, we can also avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts. More than just the expansion of individual programs, collaboration also leads to new innovations. It is even more important that new innovations are value-adding; building upon previous innovations.

Head of Tanoto Foundation, Mr. Sihol Aritonang, as a panelist speaker. Along with Business Development Manager of Ruangguru, Ms. Stephanie Hardjo, both discussed their collaboration work.

On the Learning Innovation Summit in March 2018, Mr. Sihol Aritonang from the Tanoto Foundation and Ms. Stephanie Hardjo from Ruangguru explained their joint effort in creating a teacher training mobile application, Ruangbelajar for teacher. The platform improves teacher competency through curated videos and quizzes that were developed based on Tanoto Foundation’s teacher training modules.

During his opening introduction, Mr. Aritonang stressed on the need for more concentrated efforts towards alleviating poor results of the current education, mentioning that, “according to PISA statistics, Indonesia ranks among the bottom 10 percent of countries in PISA results. Small-scale solutions are not enough; we need a breakthrough.”

Over the past 7 years, Tanoto Foundation has invested in elevating the quality of education in rural regions through their Pelita Pendidikan program. Over 518 schools and 5,100 teachers have received the benefits.  Even though results have been optimistic, scale remains a concern. In the face of today’s technologically-disruptive world, Tanoto Foundation looked out for “using technology as an enabler”.

On the other side, Ruangguru has quite an expertise in EdTech. Since its inception in 2014, their e-learning software has benefited students and teachers nation-wide. To date, it has 7.5 million users across 32 provinces in Indonesia.

Through this collaboration, teacher training in overall can now be administered more effectively towards a greater audience, regardless of time and space boundary. Just last February, teachers of Pesantren Tebuireng in Jombang were mentored on how to effectively use Ruangbelajar for teacher. More of such workshop will be conducted by Ruangguru.

With knowledge-sharing, both parties are able to tap into the expertise of others and both stand to gain. There certainly is great potential in expanding individual education-enhancement programs by collaborating with other partners of specific specialisations. In this way, we can also avoid unnecessary duplication of efforts. More than just the expansion of individual programs, collaboration also leads to new innovations. It is even more important that new innovations are value-adding; building upon previous innovations.