Tencent suddenly announced that Tencent Classroom will cease operations!
Recently, Tencent Classroom, a high-profile online education platform owned by Tencent, officially issued an important notice, announcing that it will cease operations and terminate the provision of all platform services starting from October 1. This decision means that Tencent Classroom will no longer continue to provide any educational services.
The official website of Tencent Classroom recently issued an official announcement announcing that it will terminate access to all online courses starting from August 1, 2024. At that time, users will not be able to browse or obtain new course content, but historical free courses that have been added to the "Course Schedule" will remain available for viewing. Furthermore, Tencent Classroom plans to cease operations completely on October 1, 2024, at which time all platform services will be terminated.
In the announcement, Tencent Classroom expressed its sincere gratitude to the users for their support and companionship over the years. At the same time, Tencent Classroom also encourages all users to maintain a lifelong learning attitude and constantly pursue knowledge and growth.
Currently, the "Tencent Classroom" application cannot be found in the Huawei App Store or the Apple App Store, while the Android App Store prompts that the application is not available for download due to the developer's own reasons.
Tencent Classroom, as a comprehensive online lifelong learning platform launched by Tencent, has been in operation for more than ten years. The platform brings together many high-quality educational institutions and senior teachers, covering many online learning courses such as vocational training, civil service examinations, TOEFL and IELTS, certificate examinations, and spoken English. Its unique teaching model achieves an effective combination of online teaching by teachers and real-time interactive learning by students, providing an efficient and convenient learning experience for the majority of learners.
Since its official launch in April 2014, the Tencent Classroom online education platform has developed into an influential platform in the industry through continuous technological innovation and business expansion. In 2015, the platform successfully launched a mobile app and H5 page, further broadening user access channels. According to data released in 2019, Tencent Classroom achieved significant growth in the revenue of institutions across all platforms in 2018, with a year-on-year increase of up to 70%. The annual revenue of the TOP100 institutions increased by more than 2 times year-on-year, with revenue exceeding 10 million yuan. The number of institutional partners exceeds 20.
In order to further promote the development of educational institutions, Tencent Classroom held its annual summit in Shenzhen in January 2019 and announced the launch of the "101 Plan". The plan invests resources worth 1 billion yuan and aims to comprehensively support 101 educational institutions to help achieve its goal of annual revenue exceeding 10 million yuan.
Entering 2020, Tencent Classroom has achieved more significant results in the field of online vocational education. In March of the same year, the platform announced that the total length of its online vocational education classes had increased by 3.5 times, demonstrating the strong demand and high recognition of online education among users. In April of the same year, according to the China Mobile Internet Dark Horse List for the First Quarter of 2020 released by QuestMobile, Tencent Classroom’s average number of active users on Sundays ranked first in the education and learning industry, and its compound growth rate of average number of active users on Sundays ranked TOP2 in the education and learning industry. The rate is as high as 38.6%.
However, during last year’s business adjustments, Tencent Classroom issued an announcement of non-renewal of sales in August last year. The announcement pointed out that due to adjustments to functions and services, Education Training Network will no longer provide services starting from September 20, 2023, and the functions of issuing classes, scheduling classes, creating live broadcast tasks and trading will be suspended. Subsequently, Shi Mei, vice president of Tencent Cloud and head of Tencent Education Industry, said in an interview with the media that Tencent Education will gradually shut down its C-side business to focus more on serving B-side business.
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