The Garden city, Bengaluru, being well-known for its spirit of entrepreneurship as well as the development in education, has come up with “Genius Micro Schools”, focused on technological education. The school, which will focus on kindergarten to class 8th students, was launched by Advitya Sharma, the co-founder of Housing, a popular property site.
The concept of “Genius Micro-schools” is based on US based AltSchool. The Genius Micro-schools will have entrepreneur Teacher, who can run the Micro-schools from home via a technology that has been specially designed for learning needs, interest and pace of every child. The product aims to create a knowledge graph of every child and change the content, practice, homework accordingly, optimising the learning experience.
The teachers can run micro-schools with about 5-8 students. Moreover, teachers would be trained to utilise technology and optimise time.
Several test preparation apps and portals which focus primarily beyond class eight education have raised risk capital from investors as students move away from offline classroom teaching model to online courses.
