Summer Vacation Homeschooling to Fill Learning Gaps Draws Attention

Systematic Basic Academic Skills Improvement Effects in a Safe Environment

‘Daekyo Noonopi Creative Reading’ that helps improve literacy skills. Photo by Daekyo

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heeyoon] As group infections continue in academies during summer vacation, raising concerns among parents about learning loss and care gaps, interest in untact learning is increasing.

According to the industry on the 25th, demand for homeschooling that reduces parents' burden to minimize learning gaps during vacation and allows children to safely and systematically build basic academic skills at home is rising. In response, the education industry is continuously introducing various homeschooling programs.

‘Daekyo Noonopi Creative Reading’ to Improve Literacy

As students become more accustomed to digital devices and video media than books, literacy decline is intensifying, making reading education programs aimed at developing literacy popular. Literacy, the ability to read and understand text, is considered a core foundational skill essential for learning across all grades and subjects.

Daekyo, an education company, offers a subscription reading program called ‘Noonopi Creative Reading’ that provides books to help form proper reading habits and foster creative thinking, receiving great responses from children and parents alike.

Launched in 2010, ‘Noonopi Creative Reading’ is structured into 12 levels by age, from toddlers to elementary and middle school students. It offers carefully selected famous domestic and international books by reading education experts, tailored to the Korean early childhood curriculum and elementary school curriculum to support children's reading learning.

Unlike other programs that provide only books published by their own company, this program features a curriculum composed of books from over 100 publishers. Subscribers receive four books on various themes and one workbook to support systematic reading activities every month.

WiseCamp's 'Panda Math' by Visang Education. Photo by Visang Education

‘WiseCamp Panda Math’ to Build Basic Math Skills

WiseCamp by Visang Education, the publisher of the national math textbook, attracts attention with learning content designed to develop the thinking skills necessary for math. WiseCamp’s premium learning content ‘Panda Math’ allows thorough study from basic to advanced levels, structured to master math problems for all grades through learning in calculation and basics (concepts and types), development (word problems and skill assessment), and advanced (thinking skills and top-level) courses.

Calculation Panda helps develop fast and accurate calculation skills and is a calculation learning program that covers curriculum concepts at once. Basic Panda and Type Panda offer 428 concept lectures and 1,100 representative problem-solving exercises to build fundamental curriculum skills.

Word Problem Panda, at the development stage, provides a curriculum to practice various types of problems, enhancing problem-solving skills and preparing for complex-type exams. Thinking Skills and Top-Level Panda offer lectures linked to the top-level textbook ‘Factory Math’ in thinking math, enabling study for challenging the highest-level math problems.

MathCloud by Geumseong Publishing. Photo by Geumseong Publishing

Geumseong Publishing’s ‘MathCloud’ Offers 1:1 Customized Learning

Geumseong Publishing’s MathCloud offers a one-week unlimited free trial service. MathCloud is an AI math learning program presented by Geumseong Publishing, which has over 50 years of educational know-how, and features a vast database equivalent to 1,000 workbooks, 100,000 problems, and over 1,200 concepts.

Based on this data, AI provides personalized 1:1 customized learning. One of MathCloud’s representative services, ‘Cloud Math Dictionary,’ offers systematic learning by providing not only the searched concept but also related concepts and associated video lectures. The automatic error correction system, which organizes errors in real time during learning, allows users to solve both incorrect problems and their variants, perfectly addressing weaknesses.

A Geumseong Publishing official said, "The free trial event held for summer vacation allows users to select one grade from 4th grade elementary to 3rd grade middle school and experience it free for one week."