Competition
Why Toppr had to sell to Byju’s the inside storyedit
Money Control – Online Web
Toppr was growing, but not quickly enough; it had revenues but they were not large enough. And it has never been profitable. Given this it had to either keep raising money or get taken over. This is the story of how Toppr was gobbled up by Byju’s, pieced together by weaving disparate strands from investors, competitors, people inside the two companies, and others.
LeadSquared extends partnership with Vedantu for student learning experienceedit
Tech Circle – Online Web
Just a week after customer relationship platform LeadSquared partnered with edtech major Byju’s, it has extended its partnership with edtech firm Vedantu. Through this strategic partnership, LeadSquared will help Vedantu provide better learning experiences to students, even before they enrol, it said in a statement.
Industry
Mind the gapedit
The Hindu – Bangalore
The shift to online learning, due to the pandemic, brought various challenges for teachers and students, including inaccessibility to devices, no or limited Inter net access, and other issues. The focus of educators has to be on recovering educational opportunities lost due to the pandemic-led online learning.
Top Edtech startups that are paving a new horizon for casual learningedit
India Today – Online Web
Children actively seek to understand the causal structure of the world around them. Causal learning in childhood is a dynamic process of observation, explanation, and exploration within complex physical and social environments. Children’s learning is not exclusively the product of processing information individually; instead, learning is inextricably embedded in social activities and practices.
Covid Impact: Tablets make a comeback in 2020edit
The Financial Express – Online Web
According to industry players, tablets witnessed a revival last year as people used it for online education and content consumption. Further to capitalise on the pent-up demand in the market during October-December 2020, vendors offered attractive discounts and competitive price points. In 2020, tablets emerged as a family device.
Announcement of Talentsprint WE for female engineers in collaboration with Googleedit
Punekar News – Online Web
TalentSprint, a leading EdTech platform, and NSE group company, today announced the launch of the third cohort of the pioneering Women Engineers Program (WE) with support from Google. TalentSprint WE were conceived in 2019 to address the gender disparity seen in the tech industry. Given the highly encouraging industry acceptance for previous cohort participants, the third cohort is being scaled up to accommodate 500 participants.