Next Tech Powers E-Learning Experience for Tomorrow’s Devs
At a Glance
Maintain a focus on collaborative and low-barrier learning by eliminating platform frustrations
Reliable real-time engagement across students, teams, and instructors
Incredibly fast time-to-market with easy, do-it-yourself integration in just “a couple of days”
Challenge
Make online tech education as powerful as in-person with reliable, real-time collaboration
Next Tech wants to help individuals and enterprise teams gain in-demand developer skills quickly and easily. So they built an online environment where students could create and learn while accessing everything they need, right from their browser. But their collaboration infrastructure—built on Firebase and critical to instructor-led learning—struggled with uptime and speed. The result was a bad experience for students and instructors alike. Next Tech needed to find a more reliable way for instructors to engage with students. They tried Cloud Firestore, Action Cable, Pushpin, and Nchan, but quickly learned only PubNub could ace this tough assignment.
Solution
Use collaborative learning to keep students engaged in the coursework and connected with instructors
After struggling with speed and reliability issues on their Firebase-built collaboration platform, Next Tech had to find a better solution or risk losing frustrated students and instructors. Once they decided to move to PubNub, however, they were able to integrate it into their e-learning solution in just “a couple of days”. PubNub’s ease-of-use enabled them to do nearly all of the implementation entirely on their own. Now, students and instructors can easily discuss topics, teams can work together on projects, and everyone can focus on advancing their tech skills. With PubNub as their real-time collaboration infrastructure, Next Tech is at the head of the class for delivering tech education.