Ruang Guru as Social Technological Innovation in Education Sector

“Ruang Guru� as Social Technological Innovation in Education Sector Members:

Achmad Adinu Yusron | Boy Anugerah | Jacob Junian Endiartia | Marcella Zalianty | Mohammad Reiza| Willibrodus Obe | Yudi Sutrasna | Zaenal Abidin Riam

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A Brief Introduction • The average distribution of school population over the age of 15 years according to the provinces in Indonesia is uneven, especially in Eastern Indonesia. It is because that area has mountainous contours which make access from one place to another difficult, and inadequate public facilities and infrastructures.

• The huge amount of budget for educational sector in Indonesia seem did not solving that existing problem. It is because the budget is mainly allocated to strengthen the BOS program for 57 million students, improving the quality of PNS and non-PNS teachers through professional allowances and accelerating school development and rehabilitation.

• It looks like there should be another way to overcome those difficulties. Technology should help to overcome the geographical difficulties in Indonesia.

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Understanding of Ruang Guru (1/2) • PT. Ruang Raya Indonesia, known as Ruang Guru for the commercial name, is the biggest technological company in Indonesia that provides non-formal education services. Its services consist of virtual class, online exam platform, subscription learning videos, private course, and other education contents that can be accessed through website and Ruang Guru application.

• This company was established by Belva Devara and Iman Usman in 2014. Today, Ruang Guru has more than 15 million users throughout Indonesia and manages more less 300.000 teachers who provides education services in more than 100 subjects.

• To expand network, Ruang Guru has made partnership with 32 provincial governments and 326 city and districts governments in Indonesia. Since its establishment, this company has taken several prestigious achievements from some parties, such as: Solver of MIT; Atlassian Prize; UNICEF Innovation to Watch; Google Launchpad Accelerator; and ITU Global Industry Award.

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Understanding of Ruang Guru (2/2) Several Ruang Guru‟s missions: • Providing and expanding access toward qualified education services through technology that can be accessed by all students, whenever and wherever; • Providing qualified matters of education and the best teachers for all students at economical prices; • Assisting teachers in Indonesia to improve their skill and ability. It also creates jobs for those people who want to be teacher. Furthermore, the existence of Ruang Guru enables those people whose profession as teachers to improve their income; and • Providing easiness and conveniences for all students to access qualified matters of education without being limited by time and space.

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Using Ruang Guru Application (1/2) • To access all services provided by Ruang Guru, people must download the application, both through Ruang Guru‟s website and via Google Playstore or Apple App Store.

• Every people may access the application such as students in all levels of education, college students, even public.

• There are several services provided in Ruang Guru application such as Ruang Belajar, Ruang Belajar Plus, Ruang Les, Ruang Les Online, Robo Guru, Brain Academy, and Ruang Uji. • To enjoy those services, people must pay the fee.

• People can do payment through bank transfer or virtual account transfer, payment through minimarket such as Indomaret and Alfamidi for example, payment through credit card, payment through Gopay and Oppo financial facilities, instant payment, and people may pay the fee in installments through some applications, such as AkuLaku, Kredit Pintar, and also Kredivo.

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Using Ruang Guru Application (2/2) Fee rate example for Junior High School students: Package Class Fee (Rp.) Duration 2 Years Plus 7-8-9 1.740.000,- Apr 2020 – Jun 2022 (26 months) 1 Year Plus 7-8-9 1.120.000,- Apr 2020 – June 2021 (14 months) 3 Months 7-8-9 675.000,Apr – Jun 2020 (3 months) 1 Month 7-8-9 250.000,Applied on Apr 2020 1 Month Plus* 7-8-9 300.000,Applied on Apr 2020 Note: * Free 3 coins for Ruang Les Online To attract the interest of users, Ruang Guru also provides up to 55% discount and additional discount of Rp. 300.000,-.

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Measuring Ruang Guru as Social Innovation No.

Criteria

Yes/No

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Development of new products, services, and programs

Yes

2.

Social entrepreneurship or the activity of social enterprises

Yes

3.

Reconfiguration of social relations and power structures

Yes

4.

Workplace innovation

Yes

5.

New model of local economic development

Yes

6.

Societal transformation and system change

Yes

7.

Non-profit management

No

8.

Enterprise-led sustainable development

Yes

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Ruang Guru created Social Impact through Technology (1/3) • Ruang Guru is the pioneer of online education services in Indonesia. The existence of this application has shown that delivery of education services will be easy by using the advanced of technology. It breaks some limitation such space, time, and distance.

• Referring to the facts that Indonesia has limited number of teachers, the difference of teacher‟s quality, lack of learning facilities and materials, and the high cost of education, they are so-called as education problems, the establishment of this company could be one of the solutions.

• All services provided by Ruang Guru can be accessed by all people, no distinction. It does not care about social or economy class in the society. So it respects justice and equality principle. The advantages can be taken not only by students, but also teachers.

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Ruang Guru created Social Impact through Technology (2/3) • Ruang Guru has given impact toward the shifting in social relations. The relationship among students and teachers occur in virtual space. It may decrease the quality of social interaction, because there is no face-to-face meeting.

Nevertheless, there is no social gap in using facilities, the users are the same. • Ruang Guru has changed the structure of education services in Indonesia. Before it was established, the posture of non-formal education services are dominated by conventional education players, such as Ganesha Operation (GO), Primagama, Nurul Fikri, and so on. They have some limitation such as in the number of branches, and sometimes some of them are only located in city, not in village even in border and remote area. The existence of Ruang Guru provides equal chance for people to study and teach from wherever and whenever.

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Ruang Guru created Social Impact through Technology (3/3) • Ruang Guru has given impact toward the shifting in power structure. This can be seen how this company has made relationship with 32 provincial governments throughout Indonesia. By joining with the regional governments, Ruang Guru may support the government‟s program to empower people in term of education. Ruang Guru also provides job opportunity to recruit people who want to be teacher, but not accepted by conventional institution. It means it plays role as job maker and government‟s strategic partner.

• Different with other platforms that based on technology, Ruang Guru has strong resilience in operational level. Dealing with the outbreak of COVID-19 nowadays, for example, Ruang Guru is still able to play its function to conduct learning and teaching process. The virtual class becomes the comparative value.

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Continuous Improvement for Ruang Guru As the platform that based on technology, and plays the important role as social innovation, Ruang Guru should do continuous improvement to survive and gives more contribution to society. Here are some things to be improved for the better services in the future, are as follows: • The coverage area should be increased (from 32 provinces to 34 provinces). The marginal area like border and remote area should be reached in the following time; • There must be social programs for poor people, such as free access to matters of education, scholarships, and other education services. It can be done through cooperation with both central and local governments; and • Ruang Guru should provide not only main matters of education. Ruang Guru also must try to give extraordinary lessons such as „Pendidikan Karakter” and “Pendidikan Anti-Korupsi” which is more important as our need to deal with the global challenges.

• Ruang Guru should broaden its scope by not only touching the cognitive aspects of students but also beginning to explore the affective and psychomotor aspects of students, the elaboration of cognitive aspects does not have much impact on changes in student behavior.

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