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Subramanian Committee urges the MHRD to publish their over 90 suggestions for New Education Policy

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More than three decades have passed with no changes in the Education policy of the country, as the last policy was made in 1986. Reminding this to the HRD Minister, Smriti Irani, TSR Subramanian, Former Cabinet Secretary has written a 3-page letter to the Minister, to make his panel’s suggestions for Education Policy  public.

It has been more than a week, since the new Education Policy  has been drafted and deposited to the HRD Minister, by the Subramanian committee, but it has not been made public.

Subramanian, being the Chairperson of the five-member committee had been assigned to draft a new education policy, after collecting feedbacks through grassroots and national-level consultations. Former Chief Secretaries of Delhi and Gujarat, Shailaja Chandra and Sudhir Mankad and ex-NCERT chief, J S Rajput were also members of the panel.

The 200-page report, containing almost 90 suggestions, includes:

  • Reinstating detention of students beyond Class V
  • Setting up an all-India cadre of educational services on the lines of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
  • Overhaul of regulators such as the UGC, inculcating values and nationalistic pride in school students
  • Compulsory quality audit of all higher education institutions every three years
  • Allowing foreign universities to set up campuses in the country in collaboration with Indian institutions, among other things.

According to the Government, the Policy will be made public,  after going through the recommendations. However, Subramanian has urged the Government to make the panel’s report public before finalising the policy.

UGC wants all Universities to have 24X7 helpline for Admission Process

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With the new academic session being round the corner, the University Grants Commission (UGC) wants all Universities to set up 24X7 helpline number to address all admission related queries.

Due to the new academic session to commence soon, it is understood that all universities would remain busy with the process of admission in various programmes of study offered at different levels of higher education. Moreover, admission procedure being one of the most important institutional functions can lead to a lot of hassle and confusion for students if not carried out with utmost care and clarity. Therefore, setting up a round the clock helpline is needed at this time.

The UGC has also instructed all universities to ensure that elements of transparency, clarity, and effectiveness of interface are infused into the system of admission, without any doubts and confusions.

IIM-Ahmedabad launches e-learning management programme via distance learning

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Keeping up with the ‘Digital India’ drive, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) will be launching e-learning programmes for management education via distance learning.

It is hoped that IIM-A would launch several such programmes in the coming months in collaboration with companies that provide online learning services, like NIIT Ltd and Hughes Education. Management education is going through dramatic changes, especially with regard to infusion of technology, challenging the traditional content delivery model. Therefore, the institute has signed agreements with both, NIIT and Hughes to deliver management education content using electronic mode in the form of synchronous studio-to-classroom programmes.

With this initiative, IIM-A will start both distance learning as well as blended learning programmes. Several executive education courses will also be a part of this e-learning model.

Karnataka Higher Education Soars on IT Wings :: May 2016

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Editorial
Let’s Talk Education
Introduction
University Admissions Go Online
Special Interview
JNANA SANGAMA initiative strengthens Higher Education in Karnataka
Interview
Featuring Among Top 10 Research Universities is THE GOAL
Gulbarga University: Empowering Youth in HYDERABAD-KARNATAKA REGION
REVA University: Transforming Students into EXCELLENT CITIZENS
Jain University: Imparting Quality Education, Creating HUMAN ASSETS
PES University: Committed to Producing Highly SKILLED HUMAN RESOURCES
TERI University: Facilitating Creation of the Market for SUSTAINABLE SKILLS
After 7,000 Schoold and 700,000 Students WHAT’S NEXT AT NEXT EDUCATION?
Startup
Byndr’s Mission ULTIMATE ACCESSIBILITY IN EDUCATION
Navneet forays into e-learning domain THROUGH eSense
LabIn App Empowering Education with REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS
‘Jumping Frog’ Synchronising Students, Parents and Teachers on a CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM
Global Education
Now, Earn US-accredited Degrees Via ‘DeVry’ ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM
eduTECH
Making of a Digital India with eduPERIPHERALS
What Industry Stalwarts Say on eduPERIPHERALS
Exclusive Interaction
Marching Towards IPO: EMERGING TREND IN EDUCATIONAL ENTERPRISES
eduGOVERNANCE
Corporate World on a High with Educational Resource Planning
Ranking
The digital Scorecard
Product Review
An eletsLABS Presentation Expanding the Frontiers of Collaborative Ideation: Barco’s ClickShare shows the way

Merger deal between Zee Learn and Tree House to be put on hold

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Background concept wordcloud illustration of merger acquisition

The merger deal between Zee Learn Ltd, the education arm of Essel Group, and Tree House Education & Accessories, the pre-school chain has been put on hold for the time being. However, Zee Learn Ltd will be setting up a committee to come up with some options to save the merger deal.  

The reason for this is that Zee Learn does not want to go ahead with the previously agreed share exchange ratio of 53 shares of the company for 10 shares of Tree House. The Pre-school chain, Tree House has been facing revenue crisis since a year now, with its revenue almost fallen down to half.

It is being believed that Zee Learn and Tree House will come up with a revised plan so that the deal doesn’t face any hurdle from Zee’s shareholders who would not like to give more shares, looking at the awful financial state of Tree House.

Zee Learn is the name behind running the country’s largest pre-school chain under the KidZee brand with 1,350 centres, entirely through franchisees. It also runs the second-largest school chain under Mount Litera brand with 87 centres. Moreover, it runs 31 vocational training institutes under ZEE Institute of Creative Art and one centre under Zee Institute of Media Arts as well.

Tree House, PE-backed company has 636 centres in 96 cities. Most of them are self-operated, while the rest are franchisees. It also offers consultancy services and runs 24 K12 schools that teach from kindergarten to 12th grade. Financial performance of Tree-House has been falling since years, as it had scaled down its operations last year also. Until last year, it had 720 pre-schools in 103 cities.

An eletsLABS Presentation Expanding the Frontiers of Collaborative Ideation: : Barco’s ClickShare shows the way

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Imagine a board room undergoing a high-octane deliberation on a proposed business strategy with datasets from various divisions in multiple avatars, or an intense huddle over the proposed features of a new product seeking inputs from various quarters or a routine admin review of an institution…

No single presentation, howsoever meticulous or elaborate can fit in the requirement of a live ideation. No amount of standardization works either, as different people have different preferences, the way they see through things and want to present in the way they want, something so very important for the free flow of innovation. The real time culling of ideas from various sources during the course of deliberations adds another layer of complexity. With a regime of multiple set of computational devices setting in, this real-time, multi-user, multi-device sharing of ideas in multiple formats seem to be a difficult proposition.

Barco – a global technology leader of Belgian origin, that develops networked visualization solutions for entertainment, enterprise and healthcare markets has come up with a hands on solution, in the form of ClickShare.

As the name duly resonates, ClickShare makes the video/projecting system of the room shareable. Everyone sitting in the room, with the due access codes can thereby become the Presenter. People can take charge of the presenting system and display their visuals as they contribute to the deliberation. Like the good old micro-phone buttons in a conference room which made a user audible, ClickShare can make it even visible on the screen.

barcoThe CSC-1 Base Unit brings about a complete ClickShare collaboration experience by enabling to display the content of up to 4 users simultaneously. 64 buttons can be wirelessly connected to the Base Unit, ready to share. Furthermore, perfectly synchronized sound and video ensures that movie clips can be optimally enjoyed. Moreover, dynamic content from iPads, iPhones and Samsung Galaxy devices can be shown directly on the screen using the specialised apps. A ClickShare CSC set consists of a Tray, four buttons and a Base Unit. Additional items are sold separately.

The ClickShare Universe
Buttons
Button are dongles which can be connected to the USB-port of your PCs or MACs. Simply pressing in the buttons make it shareable.

Mobility
 For iPads, iPhones or Android devices, you just need to get hold of the ClickShare app to share. It can thereby be a good use-case for a smart classroom demonstration as well.

Video and audio
 The system can play videos at 30 frames per second (higher than the worldwide standard for movie theater film projectors at 24 fps), with sound through the meeting room’s AV system.

Zero installation
 ClickShare intends to keep things as light as possible. It has been designed as a zero footprint application, which leaves no ‘software’ on the client PC or MAC. Just plug the buttons and share.

The engineers of ClickShare have gone a level ahead to ensure the fidelity of this toy. They have gone overboard in using both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz bands simultaneously to guarantee a great wireless connection at all times, which has remained a pain point across even the best board-rooms, specially in this dusty part of the world.

Barco’s ClickShare worked well at the eletsLABS and we found the actual performance closer to the claims. The product certainly can be recommended for a try by all those organizations which want their collaborative meetings to be really productive and keep away the logistic nuisance of moving back and forth struggling with the VGI Cables of the projector et al.

‘Jumping Frog’ Synchronising Students, Parents and Teachers on a CLOUD-BASED PLATFORM

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Rajesh Bakshi, Managing Director, NetSpec Global speaks regarding the company’s latest venture-“Jumping Frog’

Jumping Frog seems to be quite a unique name related to education. What motivated you to take on this name for your brand?
 At NetSpec, we live, eat, sleep, and breathe education and think of ways to enhance the entire experience of learning more interesting and enriching for students. For this, we need to get deep into the psychology of the students to understand their state of mind and make them learn without giving any kind of a stress. We try to create ‘Digital Content’ with many multimedia images and videos which makes information more playful for students. Therefore, the name of ‘Jumping Frog’ fits into the psychology of the student as it seems as a fun game rather than any educational tool or a learning management system.

What is Jumping Frog all about? How does it act as a communication bridge between teachers, parents and students?
 Jumping Frog is a comprehensive collaborative cloud based platform. Everything that happens in life span of the three major stakeholders in K-12 education, who are parents, teachers and students is automated on Jumping Frog. Within the collaboration, it has features like complete School Information system (SIS), Smart Grading and Report Cards, Digital Assignments and Homework. With all this data that we accumulate, it also gives a lot of analytics on the overall performance of the students individually and collectively. Besides collaboration, Jumping Frog has module on learning as Learning Management System (LMS), powerful assessments and it is also completely integrated with MS Office 365.

How has been the response towards it so far? What can you foresee about the future of Jumping Frog in India?
 We had a tremendous response that is still leading on with bright output as we have catered to the needs of more than 1,00,000 students and 10,000 teachers. We, at Jumping Frog create solutions with students and teachers in mind. For students, our aim is to enhance their school experience beyond just academic learning. For teachers our focus is on efficiency of faculty by saving time, using state of art technology, thereby creating a more productive learning process.

Jumping Frog is built using Open Source technology with various modules incorporated in it, realising the need for a solution that is purposely built to fit the specific requirements of the education sector and overcoming the traditional pedagogy of educational system

Kindly share your views regarding competition. Do you see any competition for Jumping Frog?
Though there are many applications in the market but Jumping Frog caters entirely to the core needs of students, teachers and parents that make us stand visible among our present clientsl. Our educational apps are designed and developed to provide real-time collaborative learning and teaching experience to the students and teachers.

Where do you see Jumping Frog in 5 years time?
We are working in collaboration with Microsoft, INTEL and HP to popularise the concept. We see ourselves as a major domain catering to our clients with optimum results in next half a decade. Also, One Note App. is the most significant and organic change process ever in the school. It is seamless and keeps up with teachers. It provides the place to bring everyone together and helps focus and prioritise things.

LabIn App Empowering Education with Real-Time Simulations

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Pavan Shinde, CEO, LabInApp speaks about LabInApp’s real-time 3D computer graphics technology promoting the ‘learn by doing’ pedagogy

What was the main drive behind starting LabInApp, a 3D Interactive Science Lab?
 During our journey of 20 years in the field of education, we have come across lot of issues which need attention. One such problem, related to Science education is of practical learning. The science education in schools is mainly driven by theory classes, with little or nothing to do in practical labs, which results in loss of interest in the subject among students and teachers. Moreover, the students don’t get enough time in schools or colleges to explore the science experiments, leading to many doubts.
Hence, there is a need for a platform where students and teachers can perform science experiments at anytime, anywhere with lot of insight in the subject. This is possible with the powerful real-time simulation platform developed by us.
“Our mission is to empower every learner and teacher with real-time Simulations”
With this we started off our journey from an incubation center, CTIE located in KLE Tech University in Hubli, Karnataka.

What are the various hurdles encountered in doing business on ground level?
 The biggest hurdle that stands in our way is to meet the key people or decision makers of schools, since our product is exclusively for the education sector. Very often it is not the Principal, who is the decision maker in such purchase offers. Another big hurdle is keeping everyone happy. The expectations of teachers, management heads, parents and students are different in the educational scenario. Fulfilling everyone’s demands is always a big challenge.
Winning the ‘StartEdu’ competition organized by Unitus Seed Fund (USF) and later partnering with Sylvant Advisors, an Education sector focussed strategic firm, founded by Anand Sudarshan and Madan Padaki, helped us in cracking many of the challenges mentioned above.

Who do you see as your target audience? What techniques are adopted by you for reaching them?
 We are working in K-12 segment and our offerings are aligned to the curriculum of 9th to 12th standard. We are reaching out to our target audience, who are teachers and students, through channel partners, Education Service Providers, tab providers, DVD providers, book publishers etc.

What can be the major benefits for Institutions/ Individuals adopting your solutions?
Various benefits for Institutions as well as students are:

  • Fast revision of lab syllabus, without compromising on the learning factor in schools
  • Live demonstration of science concepts/experiments in the classroom by teacher, since every theory chapter is related with some hands on activities or experiments
  • Students can use LabInApp in school or at home without having to worry about availability of lab resources
  • They get to learn a lot of things in the LabInApp software before they go to the actual laboratories

Where do you see your company in 5 years time?
In few years from now learning is going to be more personal and even more interactive. With the current rate of penetration of smartphones and tablets in every region of the country, it is evident that these devices are going to be the platforms on which LabInApp has to run. We would like to see ourselves as leaders in providing real-time simulation in India.

Navneet forays into e-learning domain THROUGH eSense

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Harshil Gala, Director, eSense Learning Pvt Ltd informs

What prompted you to start an e-learning solution company?
Navneet believes that leadership in any field is essential. In order to be an effective educational leader one must foster a concept of excellence within the classrooms. This is where we stand out. Time has proved that Navneet has been an integral part of Educational Revolution and now as a sister concern of Navneet, it’s our part to play. We provide a number of e-learning Solutions so as to boil down the complex issues of education and provide a concise statement of what all needs to be done.

In what all innovative ways is eSense integrating technology with learning?
 Please tell us about your latest offerings, eSense TOPClass. eSense is creating 2D and 3D multimedia animation based content which has transformed the traditional textbook in 2D & 3D animation, making it easy and more fun for students to learn from.
eSense TOPClass is a complete digital education solution which consists of interesting and attractive animated content for every chapter. Thus, making teaching and learning easier and faster.
eSense has also developed artificial intelligence based software which is compatible with tablets and mobiles. This makes it cheaper in terms of digital education.

Do you think students have adjusted to e-learning methodology of teaching?
 Do they prefer e-learning to the traditional chalk & board teaching? E-learning is growing in India and students along with their parents have started to accept e-learning methodologies. Especially, students who have been exposed to the e-learning content prefer it over the traditional chalk & talk method.
However, there is a long way ahead to go for e-learning, but with Digital India campaign, the importance of digital education in India has been highlighted. We cannot be sure and say that students prefer the e-learning methodology over the traditional chalk and board teaching, but it is definitely considered as a technique which helps students to retain more of what they have learned. This is because Audio/ Visual helps them to retain around 70 percent of what they see and learn.

    ESENSE TRANSFORMERS  

  • Audio-Visual content
  • Assessment Software
  • Question Bank
  • Analytical Reports
     eSENSE OUTREACH

  • 2500+ Schools
  • 10,00,000+ Students

What are the USPs of eSense?
 E-learning in itself is a unique concept. Nevertheless, our USPs are mentioned as below:

  • Syllabus based for MSB, GSB and CBSE students
  • 2D/3D Animation for each chapter
  • Artificial Intelligence based assessment software
  • Unlimited practice exams
  • Limited final exams
  • Performance comparison with peers across state
  • Analytical reports to focus on weak areas and incorrect answers.

How do you plan to deal with your competitors?
 There is competition for sure. However, we believe in transforming the process of learning through the support of Audio-Visual content, Assessment software, Question bank and Analytical reports. Students can learn better, understand faster and remember more with the help of TOPScorer. We treat knowledge as wealth and our content has been appreciated by schools and the stats say it all.

What are your future plans regarding expansion of eSense?
 eSense aims to go beyond the chalk & talk method and stimulate the learning environment. In the next 5 years we foresee each and every student learning through the content of eSense. We want to replace the traditional textbooks with our content and want that students from every school and household, should be learning from eSense content.

After 7,000 Schools and 70,00,000 Students WHAT’S NEXT AT NEXT EDUCATION?

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Beas Dev Ralhan, CEO & Co-founder has the answer

Having partnered with 7000 schools and 7 million students, what is your ‘Next’ step now?
 We were among the first few who started out as an education solutions provider in India. After creating a self-learning module called LearnNext, we realised there was a need to improve and enhance the style of teaching in Indian classrooms. It wasn’t easy for us to create content at a global level which not only adhered to the Indian education system but also made learning more efficient and fun-filled. It hasn’t been a simple task to establish our presence in more than 7000 schools and among approximately 7 million students in last 8 years. Continuous learning and understanding of the industry have enabled us to shape the trends and have led us to become thought leaders.
Next Education’s dedicated R&D team has relentlessly worked to keep improving our products and the user experience based on the feedback received. At the same time, they have also led us to branch out into various new product lines like NextBooks, NextLabs and Next ERP.
Products like NextLabs provide a more comprehensive understanding of hands-on learning experience, whereas NextERP is an integrated school management system which streamlines all processes, departments and functions of a school. NextBooks is a complete curriculum solution that combines the best of books, digital content, hands-on activities and gamification, and a comprehensive mentor manual.
We realise that continuous innovation and becoming a ‘one stop solution’ for anything education is the way forward, and we are out to achieve that.

Next Education Pvt Ltd has recently launched a new initiative “Workshop for Principals” with a view to develop leaders. What was the basic drive behind this workshop?
 “Next Academy” workshops for the principal fraternity is a pioneering initiative by Next Education. The aim of this interaction is to engage with school principals, update them about changing technologies, understand their views on current trends, evaluate changing mindsets of classroom teaching and learning, understand the expectations of parents and students and also recognise the life skills that need to be imbibed into students today. At the same time, principals learn from the best teachers out there – each other.
Our workshops emphasise more on making schools future-ready, and so we are extremely meticulous in selecting the points of discussion. This year we plan to conduct 50 principal workshops across India with fresh themes that are in sync with contemporary challenges. We believe that creating thought leaders will impact the entire education ecosystem.

      TYPES OF LEARNERS
  • The visual learner who sees and learns
  • The auditory learner who learns by listening
  • The kinesthetic learner who learns by movements

 

       Product Line
  • LearnNext
  • NextBooks
  • NextLabs
  • NextERP
  • TeachNext


What is your new initiative “Robotics” all about?
 How powerful are Robotics as a tool for education? Next Education’s initiative NextRobotics aims to promote robotics as a tool for application of concept-based learning in a classroom environment using STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Robotics is fast emerging as one of the most powerful tools in education.
The idea is to rediscover and redesign learning by engaging students with a ‘query’-based approach and to be creative in solving open-ended robotic challenges. Observing the current scenario of a classroom, we can say robotics is also used as a formative assessment tool in line with CCE recommendations.
What sets NextRobotics apart is that we provide the students everything that they require. From hardware components to build robots to the various softwares required for programming, an easy-to-use kit which can help students to focus all their energies into simply being creative and developing a practical approach. The kit contains many different kinds of sensors that a robot can use to react to its environment and take decisions. Here, students learn many senses like touch, sound and light that can be replicated in a robot.
Further, our robot programming software, THINK, offers a graphical drag-and-drop coding interface to novice programmers. This provides self explanatory programming blocks that enable them to write powerful pieces of code with ease without getting bogged down by complex syntax and constructs of a textual programming language. Real-life problems often do not have a unique solution, but robotics offers students the flexibility to be imaginative and approach the same problems in their own unique way.

These days there is a lot of stress on skill development. What are your views and how is Next Education working towards this?
 Skill development is one of the most important agendas for both the government and the private sectors in India. The skill development initiative has become of prime focus to generate employment and entrepreneurial skills in India. Thus, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has launched many schemes like National Skill Development Mission, National Policy for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship 2015, Pradhan Mantri Kaushal Vikas Yojana (PMKVY) Scheme and the Skill Loan Scheme.
From its inception, Next Education was determined to adopt a hands-on style of learning. In order to make the learning process easier, we have created content in such a way that it requires a practical approach rather than just theoretical knowledge.

How popular are your recently launched products and services like TeachNext, LearnNext, NextBooks, NextERP etc. among students and teachers? Are these products more Student-centric or Teacher-centric?
 Each of our products TeachNext, LearnNext, NextBooks, NextERP and even Labs provide a distinct solution to a relevant problem that a school might be facing. The good thing is that all our products have been received quite well by schools. However, TeachNext enjoys maximum penetration at the moment.
The underlying idea has always been to make the processes of learning and teaching more enjoyable and fun-filled while imparting the required knowledge. For example, when we learnt how the heart worked, all we had before us was a one-dimensional picture of the heart in a black and white textbook with arrows that depicted points from where blood flowed in and out. That was probably enough for a theoretical understanding, but nothing more than that. Compare this with a student who learns how the heart functions with the help of a multimedia platform and gets to see it in 3D. They acquire a practical understanding of the process, how blood flows in and out and various other functions.
We try to strike the right balance between being student-centric and teachercentric, as we understand that both have to be extremely comfortable with the product. With a product like TeachNext, while a teacher maybe the user, a student is the target consumer. A teacher also needs to understand that these products are only there to further enhance their teaching, not to replace their expertise in any way. That is not possible! Human touch will always be prevalent and a primary requirement in this sector.

    Product Design Focus
    Strike the right balance between being student-centric and teacher-centric


How do the10,000 learning modules make teaching easier and more effective for teachers as well as students?
 Our flagship product TeachNext has made end-to-end processes of teaching and learning easier, more engaging and interesting through its rich multimedia content. It is designed in a way that it caters to all types of learner – the visual learner who learns by seeing, the auditory learner who learns by listening and the kinesthetic learner who learns by doing.
Also, with more than 10,000 learning modules and a set of over 500 tools including NextStudio, NextDictionary, NextMaps, periodic tables, log tables and pH indicators, learning is made delightful for the students. While developing the content, we also keep in mind the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) guidelines.
Using the technology is very easy. A simple hand-held remote can accomplish all the required actions, so the teacher can operate it from anywhere within the class. Teachers can also use interactive touch-boards to demonstrate a more details, zoom in, ask students to THE NEXT ONWARD DRIVE solve problems, etc.

    7k schools, 7m students and growing!

 

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