S. Vishnu Sharma
Vedantu, the pioneer in LIVE online learning has become the first and only edtech player in India to make online learning completely safe and secure for 100K daily active students studying from home.
Vedantu joined hands with Space2Grow to achieve this
milestone.
Space2Grow is a niche social impact consulting firm that specializes in child protection.
The vision of this collaboration between Vedantu and Space2Grow is to create a robust prevention and redressal mechanism across all the online and offline touch points, making online education safe for every child.
Vedantu gives a boost to great child safety policy
With the ‘#ChildSafetyFirst’ initiative in place, Vedantu’s internal team will constantly monitor, control texts, pictures, and recordings so that students can experience safe, LIVE online learning.
Vedantu is the only EdTech brand that offers a one-to-many LIVE learning model on its W.A.V.E platform, where one master teacher can interact with up to 500 students in a single session.
The child safety initiative by Vedantu will ensure that every session comprising of multiple learners is safe and secure with no unsolicited interruptions.
Speaking more about this initiative, Pulkit Jain, co-founder and product head at Vedantu said they have been two steps ahead in bringing interactivity and engagement to LIVE online learning for students across India.
The co-founder of Vedantu, further said as a responsible and socially conscious brand, the safety of their learners and teachers is paramount and they are looking at setting new benchmarks for the industry.
Pulkit Jain of Vedantu also said their partnership with Space2Grow will help them continue to chart that course by ensuring that we have the right expertise and execution capability when it comes to the critical area of child safety.
‘Our highly competent Child Safety Team comprising of legal experts and counsellors will closely work with the leadership team and Space2Grow team to uphold the safety of our learners and teachers at all times,’ said Pulkit Jain of Vedantu.
Speaking about the partnership with Vedantu, Chitra Iyer, founder of Space2Grow said India has 1 in 3 children using the internet.
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The EdTech space currently caters to 90 million children – and with the pandemic, their online presence has exploded.
More than we realize, both the vulnerability and safety of children who are consuming online content is an immediate reality to contend with, she said.
As a market leader, Vedantu can positively impact this area – and pioneer Child Safety as a mandate for the entire industry.
We are very happy to partner with Vedantu on a journey to make online safety a fundamental right of every child, said Chitra Iyer.
With student focus at its core, Vedantu underscores the importance of safety and security of learners while adapting to the environment of online education.
Driven by the vision to create the best cohort in LIVE, online education, the company is creating the highest safety standards for students and teachers.
To ensure a totally secure and healthy learning environment, Vedantu has introduced a set of strict ZERO Tolerance Policy, which every staff at Vedantu, students, their parents or guardians, the educators and any concerned vendors will need to adhere to during and beyond class hours.
The company has also brought out the list of activities that are prohibited during live sessions. The activities banned are given below:
$ Disrupt the orderly conduct of classes in the form of action, speech, or any other form
$ Using loud or offensive language or displaying temper during class hours
$ Sending abusive messages or threats to any student/ others concerned within the Vedantu community, through any medium (including Social Media)
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$ Defamatory, offensive, or derogatory comments, pictures, videos regarding the company or any of the pupils/parents/staff/governors at the Vedantu platform or on Facebook or other public/social sites
$ Intimidating, harassing, or discriminating any person based on their race, colour, creed, national origin, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in the form of action, speech or any other form
$ Use of physical, verbal, or written aggression towards another adult or child
About Vedantu
Vedantu is a LIVE interactive online learning platform for students.
It offers individual and group classes delivered by experienced master teachers in a LIVE real-time, virtual learning through their patented platform.
The indigenous platform built for revolutionizing online learning captures 70+ parameters, helps drive high engagement and interaction in virtual class and give students their personalized learning reports to help them understand the knowledge gaps.
Students can also access free content, take tests, and play LIVE quiz every day.
More than one million students study LIVE every month on the platform and more than 25 million users every month from more than 1000 cities and more than 40 countries access free content, tests, doubts, videos on Vedantu’s platform and its channels on YouTube.
To know more about the online learning platform, log on to www.vedantu.com or download the App on your Android or iOS device.
About Space2Grow
Space2Grow is a Social Impact un-consulting organization, that was founded with a belief that the role of Non-profits and Community based organizations are a key to accelerate impact.
Co-creating and last mile execution of the solutions holds the key.
With an expertise in the areas of Anti Human Trafficking, Child Protection, Inclusive Livelihoods, and education, it provides a gamut of services including capital acquisition, strategic and operational advisory, program management and financial and governance support for CBO’s, start-ups, and non-profits.
It also mobilizes the donors/CSRs across the issues of AHT, child protection, inclusive livelihoods and education.