Educational innovation 20+

Snapask provides online tutoring services in the classroom, allowing students to ask questions through the App to help them solve intractable diseases in their studies. Founder Yu said that his inspiration came from his experience of interacting with biology teachers.

The following scene may be familiar to many students: sitting at a desk in the middle of the night, thinking hard about the topic, seeing that tomorrow's section exam is coming, but no one can ask-at this moment, students are also seeking self-protection in K books. I have to put this entanglement aside for the time being and pray that I won't take this exam tomorrow.

I hope this regret won't happen again. The online tutoring service Snapask Time Problem is 20 15, which was established due to real-time matchmaking through the Internet, so that students can take photos and upload the problems in their mobile phones at any time when clearing their cards. Please ask the online tutor to answer them and clarify the doubts through one-on-one dialogue.

At present, the market is all over Asia, with users in Taiwan Province, Hongkong, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, and it will enter the Vietnamese market this year. Snapask currently has more than 3 million registered students and 350,000 qualified registered tutors, of which about 200,000 students log in from the platform of Taiwan Province Province.

I'm from Hong Kong. He graduated from the Department of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management of the University of Hong Kong. He worked as a tutor and cram school in the university, which has an indissoluble bond with education. He bluntly said that he was not a good student at school and did well in the exam, but he was not attentive in class and did not hand in his homework. For some subjects that he is not good at, he still takes the initiative to ask questions. Unexpectedly, the experience of asking questions to the biology teacher made him learn better and better, but he also found that the teacher's time might not match his needs. In addition, he was deeply impressed by his experience as a tutor after school. Tutors can only serve 2 ~ 3 students a day at most.

"I started asking questions. Every time I asked questions, I thought I would learn something. The questions may be scattered, but because every time I ask questions, I will go back to study by myself, so what I ask next time will be clearer. After graduation, I worked in a bank for a short time, and later decided to quit my job and invest in a high-risk but more enthusiastic new education industry.

Snapask adopts the mode of "number of questions", 25 questions 1, 190 yuan, 50 questions 1, 990 yuan, and the full amount is 3,500 yuan per month. For the first two payment schemes, the price for answering a question is about 40-50 yuan, of which 15 yuan will be distributed to the tutor. At the same time, it also cooperated with Hanlin Publishing, a domestic reference book manufacturer, to purchase the problem-solving service of Snapask.

In order to ensure the quality of teaching, in addition to recruiting teachers through formal procedures, transcripts of public tests such as academic tests and finger tests must be submitted for application, and only after two weeks of training and trial teaching can they pass the exam. At the same time, in view of the extremely long or extremely long conversation, we will also check the conversation records to understand the teaching situation and make learning more efficient. At present, the subjects asked are mainly mathematics and physics, followed by English, and the humanities in some areas have also improved.

Yu noticed that "asking questions" is no stranger to learners. However, if students are used to only listening to the teacher's lectures and completing the homework assigned by the teacher, they will gradually get rid of the initiative of self-study and the opportunity to learn, and even don't know how to ask questions. So Snapask will hold a training class to teach teachers to motivate children to ask questions. He found that after the habit was formed, many students who used Snapask were not satisfied with getting the correct answer, and continued to ask questions after solving the immediate problems, hoping to ensure that they would not fail in the exam. He also talked about an interesting phenomenon. Not only students, but also many parents came to ask questions. "The younger the student, the higher the participation of parents", because many parents are responsible for children's learning, and when they are not sure about the answer, they will use Snapask to reconfirm.

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In the Snapask classroom questioning App, students and tutors solve problems one by one. Snapask provides

Yu believes that learning by asking questions is the most effective method. "The exam is just a scene. When you get used to this self-learning mode of asking questions, you can also use the same mode to study in different scenes in the future. In addition to the screen name Snapask, other educational brands have been established, including Wizmo, a service that analyzes students' learning strengths and weaknesses through AI technology, Sofasoda, which provides professional soft power courses and counseling, and Lab Leben Knowledge Room, which operates English mathematics and science courses in primary and secondary schools, so that educational services are no longer limited to K 12 exams, but further extended to every stage of life.

Randolph Hsu, founding partner of Ondine Capital who invested in Snapask, said: "Snapask perfectly combines technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence with education. In addition to serving the mature education market (such as Japan, South Korea, Hongkong and Taiwan Province), it will also benefit K 12 and the exam-oriented education model in Southeast Asia, providing a lasting and powerful solution to the imbalance of educational resources in its region. 」

20 16 was selected as "30 Under 30 Asia" by Forbes. Speaking of his family, he considers himself lucky. Although his parents are civil servants with stable jobs, they do not object to his stepping into high-risk new industries. For Yu who has a dream, "non-stop is the greatest support", and he often leads his parents to broaden their understanding of this field.

When the epidemic broke out in 2020, parents had a new view on online learning, especially in areas where schools were closed. Online learning has become the only auxiliary tool. In the past two months, the number of users in Taiwan Province Province has increased by more than 50%, and the registration rate of new users at home and abroad has also been greatly improved. Snapask seized the opportunity to meet the demand. At present, through cooperation with Shuangbei Education Bureau, the test questions have been donated to students in need for free use.

For the future development, Snapask team still has a lot of imagination, and autonomous learning and personalized learning are the core ideas of the team. In addition to answering questions, I also hope to help people turn passive into active at different stages of life through various products, and connect people who can help them by asking questions.

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