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Year Ender 2020: 5 ways you can make sure your child can keep up their learning and reading habitsedit
India Today MSN Flip Board – Online Web
Encourage your children to write down their thoughts. Even better, help them maintain a journal for writing about their day. Who knows, they could be the next Anne Frank! Article by Kavish Gadia, Co-Founder and CEO, Stones2Milestones.
Competition
Forbes India 2020 Rewind: Our top 10 stories you lovededit
Forbes – Online Web
Forbes India’s top 10 most read stories are a mixed bag. Our cover story on Zohos Sridhar Vembu and his work from village mantra, that we explored at a time urban professionals were moving back to their homes in small towns and villages amid the Covid19 national lockdown, gives a new meaning to work from home. Our story on WhiteHat Jr’s censorship of dissent and criticism was widely read and started a discourse on corporate censorship.
EdTech firms to see higher growth in 2021edit
APN News – Online Web
According to some estimates, more than 4,500 EdTech startups came up during this period. EdTech startups also raised over $2.2 billion in investments. Some of the big names that are active in this space include Talentedge, Eruditus, Vedantu and Byju’s.
Bharat Inclusive Tech Fund leads Series A funding in Parikshaedit
VC Circle – Online Web
Last month, Unacademy added two more marquee names to its investor list Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group in a fresh funding round that valued the startup at $2 billion.
[Year in Review 2020] A look at some of the top YourStory exclusives that made a markedit
Your Story – Online Web
Vedantu CEO and Cofounder Vamsi Krishna Vedantu, known for pioneering live interactive online classes for students in India, also received a significant vote of confidence from global investors, with global venture firm GGV Capital and existing investors infusing $24 million as part of the company’s Series C extension round.
Industry
The future of careersedit
Deccan Herald – Online Web
This happens in spite of all the EdTech Companies and smart classrooms at tuition centers. Technology is just a medium. In India, we dont suffer from a dearth of technologists, but of Educationalists.
EdTech firm MyClassboard raises Rs 45 cr from ICICI Bankedit
Digitallearning Eletsonline – Online Web
EdTech firm MyClassboard Educational Services (MCB) raised Rs 45 crore from ICICI Bank. MyClassboard is an endtoend school software that helps schools in automating and streamlining all their academic and administrative processes.
Decoding the economics of early childhood learning and its impact on Indias GDPedit
Times Now News – Online Web
Tap to unmute Square Panda presents Early Learning Matters: Watch Ep 1 Square Panda presents Early Learning Matters partnered by Times Network an educational series that focuses on discussing the changing trends, challenges and potential opportunities for progress in the educational sector.
Arvind Kumar elevated as business head of Hello Englishedit
Exchange 4 Media – Online Web
Arvind Kumar has elevated as Business Head of Hello English app. Hello English is Indias largest language learning app with over 55 Million user base and the app is available in 14 different Indian languages.
EdTech Predictions For 2021edit
Business World – Online Web
Edtech startups will move towards these 5 major pedagogical trends next year. As the pandemic hit this year, it exposed a major gap in school education that was not able to meet the needs and expectations of the students. As a result, children and their parents increasingly turned to online programs in search of more learning tools and the edtech sector struck gold.
[Product Roadmap] In 7 years, how Great Learnings tech has helped it clock a 150 pc revenue growthedit
Your Story – Online Web
The bootstrapped edtech startup said its annual revenue rose 150 percent to Rs 325 crore, as the coronavirusinduced lockdown boosted demand for its learning courses aimed at equipping professionals with new skills.
Practically Launches Its First Brand Campaignedit
Navashakti – Online Web
Practically, a new e-learning app, designed to make learning experiential and increase retention among students of class 6 to 12, has kickstarted its first-ever brand campaign around the theme – ‘Bring Learning Alive’.