1 Million Students Use Quipper e-Learning for the K-12 Program

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The Philippines is actually the last country in Asia and one of

the last three countries in the world implementing the old 10-
year pre-university program. With this in mind, it is high-time the
country institute the K-12 program which covers 13 years of basic
education in the following key stages – Kindergarten to Grade 3,
Grades 4 to 6, Grades 7 to 10 (which is called Junior High School)
and Grades 11 to 12 (called Senior High School). The Kindergarten
stage began in 2011 while the enhanced curriculum for Grade 1 to 7
started in 2012; officially, the K-12 program was enacted in 2013.
Today, the Philippines is on the fifth year of the
implementation of the K-12 Program. The last mile is the Senior
High School. All 221 divisions of the Department of Education
(DepEd) have finished planning and have figures on enrolment a
year in advance. The increase in the number of years for pre-
university requirements means the College General Education
curriculum will have fewer units. Subjects that have been taken up
in the K-12 Basic Education will be removed from the College
General Education curriculum.
But where does online education or e-learning come into the picture
for the K-12 program? This is where Quipper.com helps both the
teacher and his or her students.
Quipper helps teachers manage classes, send assignments to
their students and get analytics on the performance of their
students.
Quipper helps students build their knowledge through
‘mastery’ of topics, modules and courses, earning rewards and
having fun as they go.
Quipper allows teachers to simply and painlessly
publish their own educational content for their schools or classes.
In short, Quipper empowers both teachers and students by
supplementing traditional methods with a platform that’s powerful
and exciting, but simple too. It aims to use technology to improve
the quality of education by creating the best teaching and learning
experience by creating a world where everyone has easy access to
quality education and is thus empowered to create a better future.
Quipper is Free
Quipper is a free e-learning platform for teachers and
students with ready-made lessons and quizzes. There are also
online video lessons and assessments for students to learn anytime
anywhere. The online class platform for teachers and students is
where lessons are interactive and real-time.
Quipper was founded in London U.K. by Masayuki Watanabe
and began operations in Japan in 2013. The following year, Quipper
started in the Philippines and launched its flagship product “Quipper
School” mid-2014. Indonesia and Mexico were the next countries
that started using Quipper. In April of 2015, Recruit Holdings bought
Quipper; afterwhich, Quipper Video and Quipper Live were launched.
What is Quipper School?
Quipper School is a free e-learning platform that helps
teachers manage multiple classes and assess each student’s
individual performance. For the students, Quipper School allows
them to go through a series of Q&A’s until they fully understand and
master the topic at hand while doing it in a fun way.
There are ready-made materials for teachers created by
local subject matter experts aligned with the K-12
curriculum. As mentioned, all lessons come with built-in
assessments. But teachers can also create their own content, create
assessments and share these with other teachers. They can create
assignments and exams by selecting topics from ready-made
content, including schedules and timelines for these assignments
and exams.
Teachers get to see their students’ scores, strengths and
weaknesses in real-time through its various analytics reports that
can be downloaded as an Excel file format.
A dashboard is part of Quipper School which allows teachers to
manage multiple classes and groups of students. With this, they can
broadcast announcements to everyone, particular groups or
individual students.
Students, on the other hand, get real-time feedback in the Quipper
School quizzes and exams, knowing if their answer is correct or
otherwise. They can try answering the questions, especially the
incorrect ones, over and over again until they fully comprehend and
master the topic at hand. But what makes Quipper School
interesting is it is “gamified.” Quipper’s gamified learning system
allows the students to earn points or coins to encourage them to
study more and answer correctly.
Today, there are a little less than 1 million students
registered and using Quipper in the Philippines, with about
200,000 actively learning using Quipper School every month.
Majority of these students are enrolled in public high schools, mostly
from the National Capital Region (NCR) – 95% are from public
schools, 74% from high school, and 68% from NCR. There are 6,000
teachers logged into the Quipper School program with more than
half of them creating assignments and exams. As of September
2015, 270 schools are already using Quipper School.

The Quipper K-12 content is fully aligned with the

Department of Education (DepEd) K-12 curriculum consisting
of six subjects – English, Math, Science, Filipino, Araling Panlipunan
and ICT – for Grades 4 to 10. There are already 2,112 lessons in
Quipper School with 28,620 questions including NAT and
Assessment content. All the materials or content inside Quipper
have been developed locally and are vetted by DepEd School
Division subject matter experts.
For Grades 11 and 12, also known as Senior High School,
content is under development that includes oral communication,
reading and writing, 21st century literature from the Philippines and
the world, Komunikasyon at Pananaliksik sa Wika at Kulturang
Filipino, Pagbasa at Pagsusuri ng Iba’t Ibang Teksto Tungo sa
Pananaliksik, general mathematics, statistics and probability, Earth
and Life Science, and Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics.
The educational division of Quezon City is also using Quipper to
develop a “Work Ethics” content.
Quipper Video and Quipper Live are premium services. The
former is scheduled to be launched in April this year that will initially
be available to Senior High School students for math, English,
science and Filipino subjects. Quipper Video will allow unlimited
access to hundreds of hours of video lectures by the best teachers in
the country.
Quipper Live, on the other hand, is conducting trials today for
Grades 6 to 10 in math and science subjects. Live is a channel
where real-time, online lectures are conducted by trained teachers.
Quipper was researched and studied through the leadership
of Dr. Ferdinand Pitagan of the University of the Philippines,
comparing traditional teaching methods (no Quipper School),
multiple regression or intermittent use of Quipper School, and an
experimental group where constant exposure to Quipper School was
implemented. With the criteria of quizzes, submission of
assignments, exams and attendance rates used, classes exposed to
Quipper School showed better results in all four criteria.
Dr. Ferdinand Pitagan summarized, “Both the pilot and NCR
findings suggest that students with constant or intermittent
exposure to Quipper School are more likely to foster higher
mean-score scores and higher passing rate in tests, and
higher attendance rate.
“Although there is lack of facilities and access to technology,
students, teachers and principals involved were all convinced that
Quipper School is a very helpful tool for teaching and learning. They
are also very satisfied of the features of the Quipper School
platform.”
The office of Quipper in the Philippines is located at the 23rd floor of
GT Tower, Ayala Avenue and H.V. dela Costa Street, Makati City. Visit
their website via www.quipper.com or e-mail them
at support@quipper.com.
Sources: Quipper Presentation Deck | quipper.com | DepEd.gov.ph
Photos and images provided by Quipper Philippines
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