Brainly collaborated with University of Airlangga

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I want to repost some nice article that once appeared in Kompasiana about collaboration between Brainly and University of Airlangga, Indonesia. This research collaboration was one of the big milestone that has been achieved by Brainly. The efforts to gain the trust to parents and academic society in Indonesia have been started since two years ago. 

What is startup term

Lately, the business world in Indonesia is booming with the term Startup. Actually what is a startup, Startup according to Wikipedia is

... a startup, generally called Startup (or other spelling, Startup), refers to all companies that have not been operating recently. These companies are mostly newly established companies and are in the development and research phase to find the right market.

The term "startup" became popular internationally during the dot-com bubble, wherein that period, many dot-com companies were established simultaneously.

From this definition, the startup world usually looks very exclusive with the world of information technology and angel investors. If the Startup is already developing, the Startup will often try to validate whether the activities they are doing are genuinely beneficial to the user.

Brainly, an educational startup with the most extensive user base in the world today with 80 million users worldwide and 14 million in Indonesia every month trying to validate whether the learning model offered by Brainly in the form of shared learning interactions through online media is beneficial to the development of student achievement or not.

Therefore, Brainly and the Psychology Faculty of Airlangga University will conduct joint research in several public and private schools in Surabaya. The activity that will involve hundreds of students will measure whether students' self-confidence increases and whether academic performance also increases when students actively ask and answer at Brainly.

As reported by the website of the Faculty of Psychology, Airlangga University. The researcher involved cyberpsychology experts from Airlangga University Dr. Rahkman Ardi.

The signing of the MoU was between the person in charge of Brainly Indonesia, Dimas Mukhlas Widiantoro Ph.D. Cand with the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology Dr. Nurul Hartini. Responsible for Brainly and Dean of FPsi Unair. 

Previously Brainly also carried out research with different themes such as machine learning at Michigan State University and Rutgers University in New Jersey United States.

The process of signing the MoU

The following is a photo of the collaboration, as seen from the gallery of Dr. Dewi Retno Suminar, as Deputy Dean of Research, Publication, and Cooperation; Dr. Nurul Hartini as Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Dimas Mukhlas Ph.D. and as the person in charge of Brainly Indonesia, and Dr. Rahkman Ardi as a cyberpsychology expert from Airlangga University.

Group photo session