KAZNU STUDENTS DEVELOPS LEARNING PLATFORM
A startup team of the 4th year student of the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics Rosa Baychapanova has launched OQU platform that helps tutors and clients find each other on the Internet.
The idea of the project was launched by Rosa Baichapanova when she started working as a math tutor in her first year. "OQU is a meeting place for tutors and students. It is enough for a tutor to conduct classes, our platform will take care of everything else. This is a tutoring platform where everyone will find a private teacher according to their criteria, and tutors can get new clients," Rosa states.
The online platform will help to find a tutor in four simple steps: the first step is to select the necessary content from the list of courses and micro–courses for preparing for the UNT, SAT, IELTS (any topic, for example, trigonometry), the second is to submit an application indicating the subject, the language of instruction, the third is a trial lesson, the fourth is payment one month from the start of classes in the OQU platform.
The advantages of the project are the following: a large selection of educational content, the ability to divide large courses into micro-sections, an individual online learning format, control over the learning process by parents and clients, ready-to-use content for tutors. At the moment, the OQU platform is in beta testing.
"We have already assembled an initial base of 102 tutors. Also, over the five months of its existence, total sales is equal to more than 3 million tenge, which is 835 hours of lessons conducted through OQU. The startup team has already participated in incubation for startups from NURIS (Nazarbayev University) and made it to the finals. During the incubation, five hypotheses were tested, the original business model was changed, the author's content in mathematics is ready by 40%," said Rosa Baychapanova. Today the team is actively working on the development and improvement of the platform.
Press Service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
