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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readKaberi Baruah from Assam could not afford to enroll in a good university. Today she is one of the trainees of an online course at a reputed university. The remote location is no more an impediment to his career. Thanks to burgeoning start-ups, education is becoming increasingly accessible. The slew of government incentives and proliferation ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readThe Indian educational landscape is fast-changing with technology gripping the nation in an unprecedented fashion.AI has actually become a part and parcel of our everyday lives even though the term is not used frequently.In the last half-a-decade, leaps in AI have been made with its application in wide ranging areas. Education is, albeit slowly, coming ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readIndia’s online Education market is set to grow USD 1.96 billion and around 9.6 million users by 2021 from USD 247 million and around 1.6 million users in 2016. More than 370 million users are on internet in India helping online education to grow at a fast pace. E-learning market in India is estimated at more ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readEducation technology, or Ed-tech as it is popularly called, uses technological advancements for new forms of learning. Education has always been associated with books and classroom teaching. It was not so long ago that the concept of e-learning was introduced which applied basic technology and used modes like e-books and tablets to eliminate the hassles ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readIn an exclusive Interview at the Indian National Congress 2017, with the founder & CEO, Serosoft Solutions, we came across the difference in the Education scenario in the United States and in India.Let’s talk about Education system worldwide. What do you think, how is the Education system revolutionising on a world scale?I will talk from ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIn an interview with the former CEO, National Skill Development Corporation, we were given a clear picture of the Edtech Industry in comparison with the ECommerce space.What is the ratio of people entering in the skill development sector? Is it big?So, if we look at the overall country, the number of jobs created ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readIn an exclusive interview with Ms. Shradha Kanwar, the National Head, Learning & Development iNurture, we came across the EdTech Innovation Ecosystem and its importance in the Educational space. Tell us your views on Edtech Ecosystem.In educational space, the whole idea is that we have different people, different stakeholders, involved in designing the ecosystem. And the idea ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readThere is hardly any country that is not attempting to improve its Education system. As can be expected, there is such enormous complexity in the efforts to improve school education systems that each country and society must be understood in itself. To improve Education, improvement is needed inside and outside the classroom. There is no ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readWhat is your purpose of bringing Steve jobs Foundation in India?Our school model is geared to bring children’s education for the future than of the past. We started in Netherlands with 25 schools. Now, we are approached by people from all over the world because everyone is looking for new models and not a model ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readIndian Education Congress 2017 witnessed a One To One session with two of the learned minds, expressing their views and opinions on how spending less on Education can equally do wonders in this sphere.The One to One session was anchtwo panelists Mr. Pradeep Khanna, Founder & CEO, Global Mindset and Mr. Pramod Kumar, State Programme Officer, Directorate ...