Founded in 2011, China Online Education Group (www.51talk.com) launched its official website in the November of the same year, and successively received the investment from several reputable institutional investors at home and abroad such as Zhen Fund, Shunwei Capital, DCM and Sequoia Capital. China Online Education Group submitted its prospectus in May 2016, becoming China’s first online education company that initiates the process of going public in U.S.
With the headquarters in Beijing and the subsidiaries and offices in Shanghai, Wuhan and Philippines, China Online Education Group currently is not only the leading online education brand that owns the largest number of students and foreign teachers, but also an one-stop online education platform helping users achieve overall improvement of their comprehensive practical ability of English.
In September 2015, China Online Education Group employed Li Na, an international tennis star, to be its spokesperson. Besides, China Online Education Group launched its“Online Education Platform Strategy”in 2016, dedicated to offering quality educational resources around the globe to Chinese students. Further, China Online Education Group has developed strategic cooperation with authoritative institutions in the industry of foreign language teaching and research, and now has co-produced a language examination system with Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. Meanwhile, China Online Education Group has reached a consensus with Cambridge University Press to initiate strategic cooperation multi-dimensionally.
Corporate Culture
--- Passionate life (life-long study)
--- Embrace changes
--- Sincere concern
--- Client-centered
Corporate Prospect
To become a respectable online education enterprise
China Online Education Group sees itself as an education company with the emphasis on people and the concern over individuals’ all-round progress in the course of long-term study, instead of a training organization with the focal point on short-term business profits. Compared with training agencies, China Online Education Group possesses longer-term educational ideals and dreams with more humanitarian care.
Corporate Mission
“Equal Chance for All”
Defects from the goals and methods of traditional pedagogy and the imbalance of the distribution of quality educational resources, have given a dilemma to people who want to change their lives through English. The mission of China Online Education Group is to bring families superior educational resources via internet technologies to help our clients enjoy the equal chance to speak to the world.
