Role of EdTech in empowering different sections of society
2 years, 5 months ago

Role of EdTech in empowering different sections of society

India Today  

Education dynamics are witnessing the biggest shift in recent years, especially in India and it's a rapidly growing technology sector. EMPOWERING TEACHERS AND STUDENTS It is the balance between these that helps institutions lay a strong foundation to enable young minds to prepare for the future. In the same context, there are two very different edtech platforms in India that are empowering teachers and students through their robust platform, technology, and courses. Sharing his views on the EdTech sector, Rishabh Khanna, CEO & Founder of Suraasa says, “Technology has transformed many aspects of our lives, especially how we teach and learn. "They are keen to facilitate learning through innovation, technology and contemporary teaching techniques and even schools are looking forward to hiring such teachers for their students.

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Why India needs to prioritise teacher development in higher education
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Why India needs to prioritise teacher development in higher education

The Hindu  

Industry readiness is one of the graduate attributes in the outcome-based education framework. A recent revelation has exposed a critical factor in India’s higher education system: a staggering 80% of graduates are deemed not fitting for industry roles. India’s higher education system faces growing criticism for its theory-heavy curricula going slow or improving skill sets. The lack of nurturing from …

Is India's education system ready to tackle the rural teacher shortage?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Is India's education system ready to tackle the rural teacher shortage?

India Today  

India is grappling with a deepening education crisis as more than 1 lakh ninth-grade students in Delhi government schools failed their annual exams for the 2023-24 academic year. IMPORTANCE OF PERSONALISED LEARNING AND TEACHER-STUDENT RATIO Praneet Mungali, Trustee & Secretary of Sanskriti Group Schools, emphasises the importance of learning outcomes in shaping education systems. URBAN-RURAL DIVIDE IN TEACHER DISTRIBUTION Similarly, …

Technology: The Key to Shaping Future Leaders
5 months, 1 week ago

Technology: The Key to Shaping Future Leaders

Hindustan Times  

Technology is playing a critical role in education, making it accessible and personalized. It empowers teachers and parents to provide better instruction, track student progress, and involve them in the learning journey. By leveraging technology, schools can reach every child and prepare them for a technology-driven future.

Year Ender 2023: 5 trends shaping India's edtech landscape
1 year, 3 months ago

Year Ender 2023: 5 trends shaping India's edtech landscape

India Today  

The edtech industry has seen immense growth over the past few years, largely fueled by the Covid-19 pandemic which forced the widespread adoption of remote and digital learning. PERSONALISED AND ADAPTIVE LEARNING Using data analytics and AI, edtech platforms can tailor instruction, content, and assessments to meet the unique needs of each student. The global personalised learning market is set …

Celebrating our teachers: Key pillars of India’s education system
1 year, 6 months ago

Celebrating our teachers: Key pillars of India’s education system

Firstpost  

Teachers’ Day is not just a moment to extend greetings and gifts but a time to reflect on the pivotal role that teachers play in shaping our collective destiny Our education system finds its beating heart in the form of a formidable force – our teachers. As India celebrates yet another Teachers’ Day, we stand united in acknowledging the indispensable …

How edtech startups enhance Indian teaching practices | Explained
1 year, 8 months ago

How edtech startups enhance Indian teaching practices | Explained

India Today  

Edtech startups have seen massive growth during the pandemic. By providing teachers with tools and resources to make their teaching more engaging and effective, edtech startups are changing the Indian education landscape. Edtech startups in India are helping teachers by providing them with tools and resources to make their teaching more engaging and effective. Edtech startups are using technology to …

How EdTech is Transforming Teaching and Learning in India - News18
1 year, 8 months ago

How EdTech is Transforming Teaching and Learning in India - News18

News 18  

Education Technology, popularly known as EdTech, has revolutionised the education sector in recent years. Growth in the Indian EdTech sector has been backed by growing demand as well as innovative learning models offered by homegrown EdTech startups, aided by a facilitative new education policy. EdTech involves the use of digital platforms, software tools, and devices to facilitate education and enhance …

5 transformational changes ed-tech will witness in 2023
2 years, 3 months ago

5 transformational changes ed-tech will witness in 2023

India Today  

The education space in India witnessed the highest disruption during the Covid-19 pandemic. The edtech industry in this regard has grown leaps and bounds in the last couple of years, with the private sector playing a pivotal role in augmenting the quality of education delivery and learning outcomes. The education segment in India is also noticing a significant rise in …

A whole new world: How an Indian EdTech platform is betting big on classrooms in the Metaverse
2 years, 5 months ago

A whole new world: How an Indian EdTech platform is betting big on classrooms in the Metaverse

Firstpost  

Metaverse promises to revolutionise the Indian education system like no other technology before. Ask anyone working with the EdTech industry though, and you’ll see why many industry insiders are willing to bet big on EdTech platforms, despite the cut-throat competition and several unicorns seeing their valuations reduced. “Metaverse will bring about a major paradigm shift in how we see education …

Igniting minds the Edtech way | OPINION
2 years, 6 months ago

Igniting minds the Edtech way | OPINION

India Today  

Our former President, Dr. Abdul Kalam, wrote his vision of India in his book Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power within India. Clearly, to provide quality education to the roughly 200 million students that India has, which, by the way, is roughly the same population as that of Pakistan, we need to have a large army of very good teachers. But …

EdTech: A force for good and defining role it has in inspiring a whole new generation
2 years, 6 months ago

EdTech: A force for good and defining role it has in inspiring a whole new generation

Firstpost  

Students today are growing up with technology. At the very least though, the last two years have given us glimpses into how students, schools, teachers and parents can use technology to enhance learning without the constraints of space and time. When applied seamlessly to education, they will facilitate ‘learning by living it.’ For example, augmented reality can take a student …

We must invest in our teachers for India to take its next big leap
2 years, 6 months ago

We must invest in our teachers for India to take its next big leap

Live Mint  

Through the 20th century, the sobriquet for India shifted from a newly independent country to a developing nation standing on the shoulders of a strong agrarian economy. With a tech talent demand-supply gap of just 21.1%—the lowest among major economies—and a significant leap in the Global Innovation Index over the last decade, the India of 2022 is staking its claim …

5 factors that are contributing towards digitisation of education
2 years, 10 months ago

5 factors that are contributing towards digitisation of education

India Today  

In India, various factors, the most important of which is technology, have revolutionized the education system, and conventional teaching-learning techniques have given way to more modern approaches. ONLINE TEACHING The conventional approach to teaching and learning is making way for technologically advanced audio-visual aids, state-of-the-art technology and new-age teaching tools and techniques. TEACHING AND LEARNING METHODS FOR ONLINE CLASSROOMS Rapid …

EdTech: The new growth catalyst of Indian education industry
3 years, 1 month ago

EdTech: The new growth catalyst of Indian education industry

India Today  

The Education industry in India has witnessed maximum disruption during the pandemic. Coupled with the growing popularity of Massive Open Online Courses and distant education India’s EdTech industry is poised to reach $30 billion in the next 10 years. While the long-term impact of the pandemic on the education industry is yet to unfold, learning models are definitely going to …

Enabling policies can be brought in Budget 2022 to make India a ‘Vishwa Guru’
3 years, 2 months ago

Enabling policies can be brought in Budget 2022 to make India a ‘Vishwa Guru’

Live Mint  

The year 2021 has seen India witness several startups becoming unicorns and the country will continue on this path in 2022, with many soonicorns on the waiting list. Given the new contagion spread and people’s vested interest in online learning, increasing budget allocations towards technological advancement in digital education is the need of the hour. Another important area the Union …

The future of Edtech: How 2021 will bring faster tech adoption in the education sector
3 years, 10 months ago

The future of Edtech: How 2021 will bring faster tech adoption in the education sector

India Today  

The pandemic accelerated some major shifts that are already taking place in global economies. Plus, the shift to digital even for Degrees as envisaged in the National Education Policy all align extremely well with emerging tech and give me hope that finally, we shall see a huge surge in digital adoption in education. Following are some ways that can help …

Know how Edtech startups are boosting India's digital education and careers
4 years, 1 month ago

Know how Edtech startups are boosting India's digital education and careers

India TV News  

The advent of digital education showcases how the Indian education system is going through a digital transformation. With the outbreak of COVID-19, the Indian education system has struggled to facilitate classes with the limited number of online resources available, causing a paradigm shift in making the Ed-Tech space a vital part of mainstream learning. The Bangalore- based online tutoring firm …

4 edtech platforms running the show in rural markets
4 years, 1 month ago

4 edtech platforms running the show in rural markets

India Today  

The Indian education system has been facing hurdles in coping up with the pace of the digital revolution, especially for the unprivileged. Whatsapp-based learning by ConveGenius The brainchild of Jairaj Bhattacharya and Shashank Pandey, ConveGenius is an Ed-Tech Social Enterprise with a vision to make quality education accessible to over 100 million underprivileged students and bridge the learning gap in …

4 ed-tech startups which are making teaching easier
4 years, 2 months ago

4 ed-tech startups which are making teaching easier

India Today  

Technology is the future of the world. Check out these four ed-tech startups which are making teaching easier: 1. eduTinker eduTinker is an innovative teacher first student management initiative incepted by two technology enthusiasts Akash Aggarwal and Nilesh Gupta. Its highly interactive features and unified communication platform enables teachers to automate physical classroom activities that drive efficiency in remote learning. …

Trends that will give edtech a quantum leap in India in 2021
4 years, 2 months ago

Trends that will give edtech a quantum leap in India in 2021

India Today  

2020 has been a watershed year for the Education sector across the world but more so for India. Opens the doors for Technology to play a key role in creating more inclusiveness of higher education and shaping of new plans to enhance learning Birth of new EdTech players whereby the number of startups shot above 4500 New niche segments identified …

How digitization in education is fuelling growth in India's ed-tech ecosystem
4 years, 2 months ago

How digitization in education is fuelling growth in India's ed-tech ecosystem

India Today  

This year has been an eye-opener in several ways. New-age platforms powered by cutting-edge technology Aside from the easy access to technology, another core element laying the foundation for ed-tech’s growth in India is new-age ed-tech platforms. An ed-tech-friendly National Education Policy The recently announced National Education Policy 2020 will have a positive influence on the country’s ed-tech ecosystem when …

Opinion | Reimagining India’s digital transformation in vital sectors
4 years, 4 months ago

Opinion | Reimagining India’s digital transformation in vital sectors

Live Mint  

India has been on a digital-first trajectory for a few years, spurred on by its goal of becoming a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. Digital transformation across key sectors like manufacturing, education, healthcare, as well as government services and labor markets has the potential for each sector to create $10-$150 billion incremental economic value by 2025. Their efforts are well …

Digitizing education in India: All you need to know
4 years, 4 months ago

Digitizing education in India: All you need to know

India Today  

From the gurukuls of old where students gathered outdoors to listen to the teachings of their guru, Indian education has come a long way. Instead, EdTech is becoming a mainstream part of education for India’s rapidly growing learner population. 3 drivers for edtech innovation in India Market Demand for EdTech is Growing Rapidly Digitisation and increased mobile penetration have significantly …

Important tech trends that will reshape Indian Ed-Tech in 2021
4 years, 4 months ago

Important tech trends that will reshape Indian Ed-Tech in 2021

India Today  

With every aspect of our lives changing with the advancement in technology, it is inevitable to see the education technology industry evolving with the COVID-19 led digital transformation and beyond. Tech trends that will reshape the Indian EdTech industry in 2021 While the Coronavirus pandemic has already brought about major changes in the EdTech universe, 2021 has in store several …

Why adoption of tech enabled solutions as part of mainstream education, is the way forward for Indian schools
4 years, 6 months ago

Why adoption of tech enabled solutions as part of mainstream education, is the way forward for Indian schools

India Today  

The Indian education system has recently realised the significance of technology adoption, in the face of the pandemic. When the lockdown forced the closure of physical classrooms, schools turned to technology enabled solutions for conducting virtual classes, which has helped accelerate the growth of edtech sector manifold, within a short time span. Why adoption of tech enabled solutions as part …

Beyond Internet Access, EdTech Must Secure Confidence of Parents
4 years, 10 months ago

Beyond Internet Access, EdTech Must Secure Confidence of Parents

The Quint  

Access to technology is still a questionable reality in most states of India today. This disparity is further skewed with a clear gender bias – fewer females have access to phones or internet than their male counterparts. For example, the Delhi government under its ‘Mission Buniyad’ initiative is using Interactive Voice Recording – so that parents, siblings, or students can …

Why innovation is primary in education and where India stands at the global scale
5 years ago

Why innovation is primary in education and where India stands at the global scale

India Today  

The first two decades of the 21st century have witnessed the unprecedented impact of technological innovations in creating new markets as also to create tremendous pressure on global competitiveness in all sectors of the economy. All this is causing compulsions to move away from conventional systems of education and assimilate educational innovations for learning in the new digital age. Traditional …

4 edtech companies helping Tier 2 and 3 cities in India learn the new-age way
5 years, 8 months ago

4 edtech companies helping Tier 2 and 3 cities in India learn the new-age way

India Today  

India has been missing out on its undiscovered human capital due to intense dissimilarity in learning levels brought about by social, monetary, geographic and many other factors. But with increasing urbanisation and deep internet penetration, tier 2 and 3 cities in India are slowly becoming digitised and open to new forms of educational tools. But with edtech companies realising the …

Edtech is trying to fix India's education system but large scale adoption still a challenge
5 years, 9 months ago

Edtech is trying to fix India's education system but large scale adoption still a challenge

Firstpost  

Education in India has followed a standard course of action since millennia. However, with the effects of internet democratisation finally trickling down to the education sector, a new wave of ‘Edtech startups’ is rising—hoping to drive India’s $91.7 billion academic market and establish a new segment in that archaic routine. These insights then enable Vedantu’s Academic Mentors to do corrective …

Opinion | Spotlight needed on training teachers in India
6 years, 1 month ago

Opinion | Spotlight needed on training teachers in India

Live Mint  

As discussions on India’s persistently low-learning outcomes gain momentum once again in light of Pratham’s Annual Status Of Education Report, it is time to turn our attention to solutions. Economist Eric Hanushek finds that a child taught by a good teacher gains 1.5 grade-level equivalents, while a child taught by a bad teacher only gets half an academic year’s worth. …

Reinventing teaching can reform education
6 years, 2 months ago

Reinventing teaching can reform education

India Today  

Pedagogies become obsolete when they continue to focus on what’ they teach rather than how’. Indian education has suffered for decades on this score because the purpose of education has never envisaged fostering curiosity and creativity as being critical to education but in knowing facts and information. If we fail to do this, we would continue to harbour irrelevant teachers …

Edtech trends of 2018 that will continue to impact education in 2019
6 years, 3 months ago

Edtech trends of 2018 that will continue to impact education in 2019

India Today  

According to a study by KPMG in India and Google in May 2017, Internet and smartphone penetration in India has been growing exponentially, with the number of internet and smartphone users expected to rise to 735 million and 470 million, respectively, by 2021. Experiential learning techniques, the use of artificial intelligence in education, and personalised learning techniques are some of …

Here's how EdTech can bring revolutionary change in India
6 years, 3 months ago

Here's how EdTech can bring revolutionary change in India

India Today  

Education Technology, familiarly referred to as EdTech or Edu-Tech, carries the potential of bringing revolutionary change in how far, how deep, and how well the education is disseminated across the globe. Well designed EdTech solutions shall judge each student's response to training and accordingly mould the training to aptly address one's training needs. Educators to spend far lesser time on …

Technology has changed the teaching methodology for good
6 years, 5 months ago

Technology has changed the teaching methodology for good

India Today  

Education for toddlers has evolved over the years and the use of technology nowadays is significantly enabling and enriching the way education is delivered in early years learning centres. These modern technology tools are also helping kids to retain the subject matter and new learning for a longer time. Various useful new teaching methodologies are emerging in the world, particularly …

10 changes we will see in education 10 years from now
6 years, 9 months ago

10 changes we will see in education 10 years from now

India Today  

India as a country has been experiencing a rapid increase in student enrolments for higher education in the area of management i.e. New education avenues opening up In the light of the above, I feel many some avenues would open up and many existing ones would scale up considerably. MBA with specialisation in advertising, digital media marketing, supply chain management, …

This is how technology can transform K-12 education
7 years, 5 months ago

This is how technology can transform K-12 education

India Today  

"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of minds to think" - Albert Einstein New things are happening all the time and right now, some of the most interesting developments in technology are taking place in the education sector. From enhancing learning and engagement by providing bespoke curriculum, technology is also making education available to anyone and …

Transforming India's learning process: How Digital India can serve as an effective tool for education
7 years, 6 months ago

Transforming India's learning process: How Digital India can serve as an effective tool for education

Firstpost  

The value ascribed to a good education in India is akin to holiness. The government’s steady focus on progress towards a digital future for its citizens with the Digital India program, and emphasis on skill building with the increased investment on Skill India campaign, are shaping an ecosystem which can foster the seamless inclusion of technology in education. The portkey …

5 new developments in edu-tech, the new frontier of education
8 years, 1 month ago

5 new developments in edu-tech, the new frontier of education

India Today  

The education technology revolution of the 21st century is over! Some of the most progressive schools around the world have already come together to create global e-learning platforms where children undertake virtual projects all year long. By creating such social learning platforms, schools share best practices in learning, co-curate best available content and identify best available technology solutions from around …

India in 10 years: Technology enabling millions to learn better
8 years, 1 month ago

India in 10 years: Technology enabling millions to learn better

Live Mint  

Digital evolution and the boom in smartphone adoption are fast changing the way Indian students learn. But with the advent of technology, Internet penetration and increased adoption of smart devices, the way they learn has started changing—and this sector will see bigger changes in the years to come. The use of technology has already shown some early signs of the …

5 problems with teachers in rural areas which are blocking India's educational growth
8 years, 2 months ago

5 problems with teachers in rural areas which are blocking India's educational growth

India Today  

One of the biggest concerns of educators across the world, and especially in India, is making the present generation learners future-ready. The main problem India now faces is that all the pedagogical innovations are fit to improve the quality of urban education while the rural learners and their education remain largely neglected. With 65 per cent of the population residing …

Technology the way forward for Indian education
9 years, 4 months ago

Technology the way forward for Indian education

Hindustan Times  

India’s education system is in a crisis. Alongside low student learning levels such as these, India also faces a shortage of 1.4 million teachers — meaning many children face even more difficult access to quality instruction. Personalised learning using adaptive tools and allowing teachers to differentiate instruction to meet varying student interests is the best way to think of the …

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