Transforming Education

Digitally: Experience of
Ruangguru
Belva Devara
CEO/Co-Founder of Ruangguru
Co-Founders
Who are we?of Ruangguru

Adamas Belva Syah Devara – Chief Executive Officer

▪ MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business

▪ MPA at Harvard Kennedy School of Government
▪ B.Eng (Computer Science) and B.Bus (Business) at Nanyang
Tech Singapore. Triple gold medalist as an undergrad
▪ Former award-winning consultant at McKinsey & Company,
across sectors in Southeast Asia
▪ Worked at the Office of the President of Indonesia and
Goldman Sachs Singapore

Iman Usman – Chief of Product and Partnership Officer

▪ MA in Education Development from Columbia University,

New York
▪ BA in International Relations from University of Indonesia
▪ 2015 UNICEF’s Young Innovator to Watch, 2012 ASEAN
Youth Award, National Best Student Award in 2013 by the
Ministry of Education Indonesia, 2008 Indonesian Young
Leader Award by President of Republic of Indonesia
▪ Founder of IFL (Indonesian Future Leaders), one of the
biggest youth non-profit organizations in Indonesia
▪ Board member of YCAB Foundation (Indonesia’s largest
non profit)
One of the largest education systems in the world,
yet one of the lowest performing
Jakarta needs…

128 years
The absence of data-driven policymaking is the key
challenge to Indonesian education

4th largest education

The absence of system globally
data-driven
policy Primary 30 million
making and
intervention Junior 12.5 million
Secondary
by the
government Senior
Secondary 9.5 million

Total 52 million

Source: GIA Report on Private Tutoring, Ministry of Education, McKinsey & Company
Ruangguru creates an ecosystem used by >6,000,000
students and >150,000 teachers all over the country

PREMIUM 2: Live tutoring

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS): FREE FOR SCHOOLS

Exam Preparation with

Analytics
Students&&
Students
Teachers
Teachers Classroom
Management
Schools &
Government
Gamified quiz
PREMIUM 1: PREMIUM 3:
Learning Parents
Schools &
Government Private
Video Government
and School Tutoring
Dashboard

Parents Parent app

We now hold the

biggest student
congregation in
the country
PREMIUM 4: Group-chat
Based learning
Learning Management System as a collaboration tool
for every actor
Students, teachers, schools, parents, governments

Collaboration creates ACTIONABLE DATA

We
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lack of data with regional
generated demand governments.
for our services. User User
acquisition through government partnerships far exceeds our
acquisition
expectationshas far exceeded our expectations.

• We are now working with 32 out of 34 provincial governments

• and with >320 cities/ regencies.

• In these partnerships, governments agree to onboard every school in

their region to use Ruangguru LMS and be connected to gov
dashboards
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Heads of Education
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Events are happening on daily basis in all over Indonesia according to the above steps
 FIRST COMPONENT: EXAM PREP PLATFORM WITH ANALYTICS,
1 PREPARING FOR THE NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY ENTRANCE
EXAMS

1A Internet-based testing and exam prep for any test

EXAM-PREP (TIMED-TESTS in multiple choices format: college entrance
exam, teachers’ assessment national exam, mid-
term, etc.

1 2 3

Taking
Exam
Choose Exam Type Taking Exam Result & Solutions (printable)

4 5
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weakness, & Leaderboard
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 SECOND COMPONENT: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT WITH
2 QUESTION BANKS FOR TEACHERS TO ASSIGN HOMEWORK
TO STUDENTS

Teachers are able to create and manage classrooms, create quiz and
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT assign them to students as homework. The generated results can be
monitored through a teacher dashboard.

1 2 3

Teacher creates classrooms Invite students to join Create questions-set

classroom
4 5

Monitor
Assign
students’
questions-set
result through
to students
the dashboard
3 FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, ACADEMIC DATA ARE
CONSOLIDATED AND SHOWN THROUGH GOV DASHBOARDS

GOVERNMENT
DASHBOARD
• All data collected through the learning
management system will be
connected to school and government
dashboard.

• Then, school and government can

monitor, map, and take a follow up
action based on the learning progress/
outcome in their respective areas.
In addition the LMS, we also provide supplemental
education to enable easier access to quality
education
Ruangguru App is often on #1 education app both on App
Store and Playstore
Popular on App Store dan
Our premium services are mainly delivered through our mobile Google Play
Android and iOS applications

Ruangguru receives many high-profile awards such as: Bubu Awards 2015 Best Education
Website, Social Enterprise of the Year 2016, SOLVER of MIT 2017.
RUANGBELAJAR: LEARNING VIDEO SUBSCRIPTION

A platform to engage students for The platform provides tailored-made learning

more effective learning through videos + quiz (in a form of learning journey) for every
thousands of videos of concepts and subject in every grade.
solutions
DIGITALBOOTCAMP: GROUP-CHAT BASED
LEARNING

Ruangguru Digital Bootcamp Tryout on RGDB

Three main characteristics of the
emerging digital culture that we
observe…
#1 The sharing economy:
open access, collaboration, and
public participation
#1 Learning Management System as a collaboration
tool for every actor
Students, teachers, schools,
parents, governments

Collaboration creates ACTIONABLE DATA

#2 Me, me, me

“I want to engage as I please, on

my favorite device, wherever I
want, which serves my exact
needs.”
#2 Self-paced and self-initiated learning

Personalized education

Learning videos Personalized analytics and On-demand help

adjusted to prescriptive strategies
students’ pace
#2 Self-paced and self-initiated learning

Personalized education

Learning videos Personalized analytics and On-demand help

adjusted to prescriptive strategies
students’ pace
#3 Shifting of teachers’ roles

As technology gradually becomes

more commonplace, teachers’
roles will shift
#3 Shifting of teachers’ roles

Before After

• Technology will shift teachers’ roles to focus on more high-

impact activities such as tutoring, mentoring, and facilitating
• Allows for more “experiential” learning
#1 The sharing economy:
open access and collaboration

#2 Me, me, me: personalization

#3 Shifting of teachers’ roles

 Thank You!

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