To stay prepared for the explosive growth, DingTalk has just unveiled its latest 5.0 version to include new functions like office tools that can be edited by multiple users simultaneously as well as tiered virtual community groups.

UNESCO said these solutions do not carry the organization's explicit endorsement, but emphasized that they tend to have a wide reach, a strong user-base and evidence of impact.Īccording to the organization's monitoring, 85 countries have closed schools, impacting over 776.7 million children and youth so far across the globe. Two other Chinese companies, Mosoteach and iCourse, also made it to the list. We are not building for games, but for the healthy development of the society,' said CEO Chen Hang. 'DingTalk hopes to become the infrastructure of a digital society. Some 3.5 million teachers have become anchors via the app. The Hangzhou-based company said DingTalk has been facilitating online courses in 140,000 schools and 2.9 million classes in China, covering 120 million students in more than 30 regions in the country. Other providers include Zoom, Lark, and Microsoft Corp's Teams. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has published a list of educational applications and platforms in six categories on its website as ways to 'facilitate student learning and provide social caring and interaction during periods of school closure'.ĭingTalk was included in the category of 'collaboration platforms that support live-video communication'. An English-language course is recorded by a teacher in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region. ĭingTalk, the remote office tool developed by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, was among the first batch of 60 distance learning solutions recommended by the United Nations as the international community turns to technologies to minimize the impact of the COVID-19 contagion.

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