Examples that teaching / learning applications are promising markets for application developers

With the rapid spread of mobile terminals such as smartphones and tablets, demand for high-quality applications continues to rise. Among them, the potential market of learning applications and educational applications seems to be quite large, so it can be read from data published on blogs for educational application developers.

L'Escapadou Blog - iPhone / iPad Educational and Fun Apps for Kids: 2014 Report
http://blog.lescapadou.com/2015/01/2014-report.html

French software company producing educational appsL'EscapadouHas reached record high earnings in 2014blogI am clarifying it.


L 'Escapadou, who began creating educational applications for iPad in 2010, said that sales of apps are increasing year by year, 21% up in 2014 to 542 000 dollars (about 64 million yen) Thing.


Sales by product are like this. In addition to the popular application "Writing Wizard" which accounts for about 30%, there seems to be popular apps coming out.


The ranking by country of application buyer is like this. The overwhelming top than L 'Escapadou's home country France is still America. In addition, the application is localized not only in English but also in French, Swedish, German, Dutch and Spanish, and in particular, the increase in the number of application purchasers in Sweden is remarkable.


According to L'Escapadou, many of the purchasers of educational applications are educational institutions such as schools, and the demand in September, October, and November is strong, so after September, which is the overseas entry season Educational applications are likely to sell well.


While the popularity of educational applications is expected to further increase in the future, as an application developer, it seems to be a big trouble to say "What are you going to do with it?" It may be "programming" that is very promising as its educational material. "If you learn programming, you do not have to worry about lifetime work"The importance of programming learning has been revised year after year, as the former officers of Facebook asserting that it is affirming that there is a growing necessity for programming education, programming as application development seems to be a remarkable learning field.

As a teaching material that can learn programming, a programming learning PC kit already made an article "Kano"Developed by former Google engineers"Bitsbox"Software that children can enjoy learning programming with a sense of game is appearing.

I tried using a small PC kit "Kano" that lets you learn programming with a sense of game - GIGAZINE


Kit "Bitsbox" that lets you learn programming fun without getting tired of children developed by people inside Google - GIGAZINE


Furthermore, not an application programming itself but an application for learning "concept of programming" in a gameLightbot"Has attracted a great deal of attention.

Lightbot
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Lightbot is innovative not to learn concrete programming,If statementYaloopWhere we can learn the concept of programming in the game such as existence of syntax used in programming etc. In other words, Lightbot is positioned as "preparation application for programming learning".


Even though educational applications and programming learning applications are certainly promising markets, we can expect great expectations for developing high-quality learning applications for Japanese who can not defeat overseas applications.