How To Develop An Education Mobile App in 2022?

Let’s start this one with a number of facts, shall we? According to research, 43% of the global population is using the internet nowadays. We are not yet telling that all of them are used for educational purposes but every sector has its effect on it. People are bound to use the Internet. The education sector is one of the most affecting sectors when it comes to the internet. Although there are many institutions that have made their studies entirely online. 

Well, online studies might always require the need for the internet. But what if you can build an application that can be used in both online and offline mode? Well, indeed a great idea isn’t it? The target of the educational mobile applications is to improve the work of both the learners and tutors through E-Learning mode. 

This is a total guide to your basic educational app development from the scratch. It includes the benefits of building such an app, Types of educational apps, How will you be able to develop an educational app, and finally the most important thing is cost analysis. But first of all why you should build an application like this?

Why You Should Build An Educational Application?

In 2000 there were only 8% of people who were using Educational application and that too in schools and businesses. The figure increased to 20% in 2008. In 2016 astonishingly, there were 5.8 million people who enrolled in online courses or classes. Which is considered a 263% increase from 2004 itself. 

The experts believe that there is a chance of having a total market value of $325 Billion by 2025. Which will be almost a 200% increase from 2015. 

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Benefits of Building An Educational Application 

There is a huge number of people who are using educational applications in today’s world. The benefit can be divided into two major parts. 

• Benefits for the customer
• Benefits for the Businesses

Let’s start with the first one

Benefits For The Customers 

1) Setting Your Own Pace

With the help of educational applications you may set your own pace in your education. For example, you are at home and you want to watch a lecture but there is a lot of disturbance around, so you can decide to watch the same lecture later. You may pause and continue anytime you want. This is a very important update to most users because traditional institutions have a convenient timeline to follow. 

2) Hassle-Free Learning 

There is no stress involved in online or application education, unlike the traditional type of education. 

3) Digital Literacy 

To take online courses most people have to have a certain level of knowledge about computers. So with the help of the courses, they gradually learn something about computers and stuff. This is really important and the major problem can be solved with the help of educational applications. 

4) Engagement 

E-learning program is very useful for engaging students with the information which has been introduced to them. The retention of students has been increasing from 25-60% with the help of the E-Learning system. The research has been done by the Institute of America. 

Now let’s move towards the benefits for businesses

Benefits For Businesses

1) Skill Acquisition

Individualization of education for employees could improve knowledge as well as skillset. This way adds to the cost-saving benefit of developing education apps.

2) Better Marketing 

Education is one of the most favorable marketing tools. Stronger bonds with the audience can be built by education programs. 

3) Improvement In Performance 

The improvement in performance will lead to the improvement of the overall business. Which can be helpful to the company’s bottom line. Performance is one of the major benefits for online businesses.

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Types Of Educational Applications

 Educational applications are mainly divided into two parts. 

• Applications for teachers
• Applications for learners 

Applications For Teachers

Applications for teachers consist of 4 types of applications 

1) Apps for content hosting and management 

Example: Google Pocket

2) Apps for planning and personal assignment 

Example: Google Classroom

3) Apps for creating presentations 

Example: Haiku Deck 

4) Apps for language learning 

Example: Duolingo 

Applications For Learners

Applications for learners can also be divided into further four parts. 

1) For a Specific purpose 

You may create an educational app for a specific purpose. Like language learning, cooking, dancing, singing, etc. 

2) For Kids

It Simplifies the learning experience for the kids. 

3) For exams

this kind of application helps in the preparation for exams such as SAT, TOEFL, IELTS, etc. 

4) For Educational Information 

These kinds of applications are designed to bolster and assist learning.

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How To Develop Educational Application

If you really want to develop a complete educational application then you will have to go through some features and add them to your application. According to a report by Statista, there are 65% of teachers support open educational resources and on the other hand, 63% showed their interest in a competency-based education system. 

Whether you are developing a pro-level application or a simple one there are some features that you should definitely work on when you build an educational application. Those features are mentioned below. 

• Sign up / Log in
• Dashboard/user profile
• Search bar/Filters
• AI-sourced behavioral analysis modules
• Live tutorials 
• Gamification
• Testing
• Link to Social media
• In-app social platform
• Database
• Educational Content
• Scheduling system
• Download of materials
• Projects, exams
• Analytics e. g. charts, reports, etc
• Offline mode
• Push Notifications
• Personalization 

Cost analysis 

We will discuss the cost analysis of building Educational application in short. So first of all what kind of team do you need in building an educational application. There are several people that you will have to hire in order to build a complete application. 

• Project Manager
• UI/UX designer
• 1 or 2 Android developers
• 1 or 2 iOS developers
• 1 or 2 Flutter developers
• Back-end developers
• Front-end developers
• QA engineer

After hiring these people the estimation of developing a basic application would be between $15000-30000. Cost is not only about money but time too. How much time you will have to spend in order to build your own educational application?

Hours of developers work when building an app for students:

Feature	iOs	Android	Flutter	Back-end
Sing up	40	40	44	45
Profile	40	40	47	60
Menu	90	90	100	85
Search	20	20	20	22
Course	18	18	18	19
Payments	35	35	40	45
Push notifications	15	14	14	14

Hours of developers work when building an app for teachers:

Feature	iOs	Android	Flutter	Back-end
Signup	40	40	44	47
Course	60	60	64	72
Test	50	55	55	79
Students management	50	50	56	56
Push notifications	14	14	14	14

Conclusion

The world is always changing, and the way that we learn is always changing with it. With the rapid development of technology, it is becoming more important than ever for students to have access to mobile learning tools that can help them to be successful. Here, we have shared our thoughts on how education will look in 2022, and how mobile apps will be used to fulfill this role. We hope that you have enjoyed reading this blog post and that it has given you some new ideas and strategies to use in your own work.

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