Amongst the NTT Group companies, we would like to introduce NTT Knowledge Square Inc.

NTT Knowledge Square Inc.

Providing new educational values through broadband utilization

Commencement of e-learning business “N-Academy” as one of the NTT Group's efforts towards becoming a “Service Creation Group”

In Japan, broadband services are provided at a high-speed and low-cost that is unprecedented in the world.  However, the use of applications and content have not reached the level that they could.  In order to provide even more useful services to its customers through broadband, NTT Group considers new value creation and market creation as important pillars in its management strategy. As part of such efforts, in November 2009, NTT Group launched N-Academy, a network based school, with the aim of providing new value to learning in the education field, especially through e-learning.
N-Academy is a paid Internet education service run by NTT Knowledge Square Inc. Students benefit from e-learning not only from being able to learn without location or time constraints, but also from high-quality videos, services provided though the most current ICT technologies and a unique system where students are able to communicate among each other.
NTT Knowledge Square Inc. will use this Internet school platform to create further new services that will provide a place for learning and learning values in collaboration with school/education businesses and content holding businesses.

[Features of N-Academy]

• Learning directly from experts in the field
• Interactive and devoted mentoring
• Communication among students  (classroom function)
• Optimal learning design that suits one’s lifestyle
• Learning through high-resolution and high-definition video
• Diverse and extensive courses offered from business to hobbies
• Organizing real classes and planning of off-line meetings

e-schooling with everyone

An open space where everyone can share their knowledge

“N-Academy” is an online school where you can participate from home and that offers courses taught by active famous people and writers who have know-how in various fields.  Not only do the students attend classes by watching videos on their PCs, there is plenty of mentoring conducted through asking questions and instructors sending back corrections.  Students attend “N-Academy” per “class”, and “N-Academy” establishes a framework in which students in a class may learn by communicating with each other using a social networking service or other discussion functions.