Yesterday I attended Startup Saturday after a long time. I actively participated in organizing these events for some time but the enthusiasm waned off, probably due to lack of time or all the gyaan was getting too much digest. The reason I attended this month’s event was because the theme of entire event was around education and I wanted to check out what people are doing in the field.
Anyhow, coming back to the point: I didn’t see any out of the box offering from any of the players. All that everyone is doing is repackaging content and trying to sell it to students. Everyone understands that there’s massive growth in education sector and want to ride on it, yet not many are doing something that would eventually benefit the sole beneficiary – the student.
One gentleman rightly pointed out that no one in India studies to learn but just to get their degrees. Yet, the solution he had to offered also targeted those students who don’t want to learn but rather score marks with last minute studies.
Overall I feel that there’s a lot to be done in EdTech sector, just that the current lot of entrepreneurs need to figure out on how to focus on learning outcome rather than on scoring marks.
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