It’s been close to a year since the Covid-19 pandemic necessitated the enforcement of various movement control orders (MCO) in Malaysia.
Today, it has become painfully clear just how much the pandemic has affected the way people live and work.
There is now a growing dependence on digitalisation as many employees work from home, while others shop online and attend virtual events, just to name a few.
While adults have had to embrace digitalisation almost overnight, the education sector took a beating it is still struggling to overcome.
According to Unesco, almost eight million students in the country were affected by school closures brought on by the pandemic.
Given the timeframe of full closures to phased returns, and back to full closures again in early 2021, students on average only attended classes for five to six months last year.
Out of this number, three million primary students missed school, a phase of education that EDUKATE believes is integral in overall childhood development.
EDUKATE is an after-school online programme designed to help primary school children learn more effectively.
It offers students a highly advanced e-learning platform built for the Malaysian syllabus.
The platform is a supporting tool that provides students with an enhanced learning experience through multimedia lessons, e-books, tests, and education-related games.
In short, EDUKATE seeks to resolve the many teething problems of online learning brought on by the pandemic.
PROBLEM: Lack of control in an online environment leading to under-supervised progress
While teachers did their best to conduct online classrooms (Malaysia was the second largest country to use Google Classroom during the MCO period), many were unable to cover all syllabuses as effectively due to technological and environmental constraints.
REMEDY: With EDUKATE, children are able to pick and learn topics based on the Malaysian syllabus, focussing on areas where they need help the most, anytime and anywhere.
With EDUKATE, they are able to learn a particular subject or topic in-depth, at their own pace, in addition to what is taught in the online classroom.
PROBLEM: Lack of understanding preventing parents from taking a more active role their child’s education
As parents continue to work from home, they have also become more actively engaged in their children’s education besides online schooling.
However, many parents are unaware of their children’s overall performance and progress, and therefore are not able to contribute as much as they’d like.
They may not understand where their children’s strengths and weaknesses lie, and thus are unaware of which areas to focus their help on.
REMEDY: Through EDUKATE’s comprehensive reports, parents can play a more active role in monitoring their children’s progress in school.
The reports are categorised into six components: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation.
EDUKATE was developed using world-class E-Learning technologies, used by more than 25 million students worldwide, including some from the most prestigious educational institutions like Oxford, Cambridge and BYU, as well as publishers like Pearson and Harper Collins.
PROBLEM: Student’s short attention span
Primary school children are easily distracted. Having only a five- to six-minute attention span, educational tools for this group must be more engaging and entertaining to pique their interest and hold their attention.
If adults find it difficult to concentrate during a Zoom meeting for work, what more a 10-year-old in an online classroom?
REMEDY: In the EDUKATE platform, children are able to learn through a variety of interactive online lessons, games and assessments.
To keep them more actively engaged, EDUKATE’s Reward4Learning incentivises them through a point-system – rewarding them for studying their lessons, reading their e-books, taking a test, or even sharing a lesson with their peers.
Affordable fees
With many household incomes affected by the pandemic, EDUKATE is currently available for primary school children for a moderate annual fee of RM360, or a bi-monthly fee of only RM80, for English, Math and Science.
Plans are underway for EDUKATE to cover other subjects in the Malaysian syllabus.
It will be a while yet before things return to pre-pandemic times but in the interim, the quality of a child’s education cannot be left unchecked.
As adults embrace digitalisation in the new normal, the same opportunities to foster learning for our children must be adopted by giving them access to quality education.
Limited promotion
Enjoy a 10% discount today when you use the promo code “FMT” to register your child for an EDUKATE account.
Here’s your chance to complement your child’s online school classes with an online after-school programme to help them learn more effectively, creating a solid foundation for them in the long run. - FMT
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