Infraware Wins Bronze Medal for 'Polaris Board' at AES Global eLearning Awards

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Hyowon] InfraWare, a specialist company in office software (SW), is making a full-scale entry into the edutech market through the ‘Polaris Board’ product jointly developed with GlobePoint, a virtual reality (VR) edutech specialist company.

On the 13th, InfraWare announced that the InfraWare-GlobePoint consortium won the ‘Bronze Prize’ at the ‘1st AES (Asia Edtech Summit) Global e-Learning Awards’ held in Tokyo, Japan, with the Polaris Board product.

The AES Global e-Learning Awards is an award given by the AESC (Asia EdTech Summit Committee), which officially launched this year, to global companies that have greatly contributed to the development and growth of Asian edutech. It selects companies that have developed excellent content and solutions helpful for learning using e-learning.

Polaris Board is a VRware electronic whiteboard (smart board) that combines InfraWare’s SW technology, which developed Polaris Office, with GlobePoint’s educational solutions and VR technology. It is usable in various environments such as PC, Android, and iOS, and can be applied not only to online classes but also to remote work.

InfraWare and GlobePoint have been collaborating on the development of Polaris Board since 2019 and have officially launched the product to lead the edutech field in the untact era.

An InfraWare official said, “Through winning the first AES Global e-Learning Award held this year, Polaris Board was recognized for its technical excellence and marketability as a content service solution utilizing e-learning,” adding, “We plan to enter the global edutech market, starting with the rapidly growing Japanese e-learning education market in the untact era.”

GlobePoint is currently collaborating with Japan’s largest e-learning specialist group NetLearning to develop a next-generation education platform business. Based on NetLearning’s e-learning network and system in Japan, the goal is to secure a leading position in the local VR edutech market.

Meanwhile, according to education market analysis firm HolonIQ, the global edutech market size is expected to more than double from $152 billion (approximately 170 trillion KRW) in 2018 to $342 billion (approximately 382 trillion KRW) by 2025.

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