The Oracle Education Foundation, or the OEF, recently entered into an agreement with West Java’s Education Office, allowing the OEF’s ThinkQuest platform to expand its operations to a total of 7,000 government schools in West Java.

The protected online learning platform will be a big help to a large number of students in West Java, which also happens to be one of Indonesia’s largest provinces. ThinkQuest enables teachers to incorporate additional learning projects into their curriculum. This, in turn, will help students to develop fundamental 21st century skills such as communication, creativity, teamwork, as well as technology skills.

Since its establishment in 2006, ThinkQuest has grown to support more than 16,500 students and faculty members in a total of 730 schools across Indonesia. With its success, OEF decided to enter into partnership with the West Java Education Office in order to spread out the platform’s operations to all government-owned schools in the entire province.

The platform currently supports over 405,000 students and teachers across 43 countries including China, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines, Malaysia, as well as Thailand.

According to the head of West Java’s Education Office, Dr. H. Wahyudin Zarkasyi, a great number of Indonesian teachers can make use of the platform’s features to enhance their teaching methods by integrating technology to their curriculum.

Robert Kayatoe, the business development director for OEF Indonesia, shared his views regarding the platform. According to him, ThinkQuest is capable of encouraging several skills that are in great demand in today’s global economy such as skills in cross-cultural communication. Students in Indonesia are already utilizing the features of the platform in order to engage in a much deeper learning experience, as well as to enhance critical 21st century skills. Robert Kayatoe also expressed his confidence in the cooperation between OEF and the West Java Education Office. According to him, the collaboration will enable a huge number of students to get more out of the program.