S. Vishnu Sharma
Educational Initiatives (EI), India’s leading ed-tech company announced the launch of ASSET Digital Learning Programme (ADLP).
The aim of the programme of Educational Initiatives is to develop independent learners. It will help students to take charge of their own learning and help them create habits to achieve excellence.
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This online programme by Educational Initiatives is designed for academically gifted students of classes 5,6 and 7. ADLP of Educational Initiatives has been designed by renowned instructors who are academic scholars and are trained for working with gifted students.
This programme will give students a platform to deep dive into concepts that are not covered in the school curriculum.
This will address diverse thinking abilities including mathematical, computational, inclusivity, scientific, historical and design thinking.
It has been designed and developed to ensure continuity for ASSET Summer Programme, to benefit gifted students during the COVID-19 crisis. Educational Initiatives has been offering the ASSET Summer Programme for the last 10 years. And, has delivered more than 85 courses and has an alumni of more than 800 students.
Students who have scored top percentile in ASSET Talent Search (ATS) assessment, those who have enrolled for the Most Gifted Programme and ASSET Summer Programme are eligible for ADLP.
Srini Raghavan, Co-Founder and CEO of Educational Initiatives said the world has adopted disruptive technologies, replacing traditional systems of learning and teaching, amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. Parents, schools and students are realising the importance as well as the effectiveness of integrating technology to ensure that learning never stops.
The ADLP programmes are fully designed and developed by Educational Initiatives and have gone through the rigour of having been tested by our technology and pedagogy experts.
Educational Initiatives (EI) is an ed-tech company that leverages the twin levers of cutting-edge research and technology-based solutions approach to revolutionize how children engaged in the K-12 education space learn.
The vision Educational Initiatives is to create a world in which children everywhere learn with understanding. The goal is to reach a multitude of children across different strata of society, irrespective of the kind of education they are receiving today or the curriculum they are following.
Educational Initiatives (EI) achieves its goal by building products that focus on diagnostic assessment and personalised learning.
Its platforms cull relevant and customised intelligence from over five billion data points to deliver content in the form of questions, activities, games and videos to assess students‘learning levels and provide explanations, feedback and learning inputs for all stakeholders.
This data treasure has been built over two decades and is one-of-its-kind in the education industry. Educational Initiatives believes in a scientific approach to conceptualising, designing and building our products.
This stems from a dream to discover science of learning that can systematically be made available to teachers. EI’s mission is to build this ‘Science of Learning’ which provides a repository of data and techniques that can be used by teachers to help children learn better – a big improvement over today’s situation where teachers struggle alone to help students learn.
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EI’s work on assessment and learning has already helped create banks of misconceptions, common student errors and the like and these are being shared as usable insights.
Online learning
Technology has indeed been a blessing in disguise for India. At a time when the entire nation has gone into a lock down to prevent corona virus from wreaking a havoc with greater intensity, technology has given us an option to learn without having the need to step out of our homes.
Technology gave us high speed internet and changed the way we access information and communicate with each other. It has given enough room for learning lessons (academics) without even being present physically in the classroom.
No wonder why online education witnessed such a good growth in less time. According to various sources, online learning market in India was worth over 240 million dollars in 2016, the same is expected to reach 1.9 billion dollars by 2021
The astonishing facts donot end with that. About 1.5 million people were said to have been enrolled in online learning courses, the same number is expected to be more than 9 million by end of 2021. These figures only show the importance online education is obtaining.