The potential of making education more accessible is immense these days with the proliferation of the Internet around the country. It is not surprising there is considerable interest being shown in the segment by both VCs and startups. One of the companies that provides online education services is Liqvid which calls itself an e-learning company. Currently, their focus is on English Edge, their new...

Gyaanexchange.com has launched its web based open learning platform which offers over 100 hours of curated educational/academic content.   Classes pertain to various fields like Technology, Mathematics, Literature, etc. With this effort, the concept of curated online learning enters India. Currently, lectures on Freelance Journalism, Mathematics, are currently available for you to enroll in. While...

After a year being in the closed Beta testing phase, the Online exam preparation service Examify has gone live for the public to test. Still in Beta phase, it is backed & mentored by angel investor Vishal Gondal.   What does the service offer? Our readers will recall a similar endeavor launched by Airtel for its DTH service. Titled iExam, the service was meant to prepare students with virtual...

While there have been concerns about the negative influence of Internet dependency on teenagers and students in this fast moving technology landscape, a study conducted by Oxford University’s Department of Education shows that today’s students would have a huge disadvantage if they were not able to access the Internet. The study targeted 1000 random households in the UK and face to face interviews...

Plagiarism is a major concern these days. The web is a huge place and you might not even realize that someone sitting on the other side of the world has used your content and passed it off as their own. Some Google-fu helps to find out if someone has plagiarized content that has been attributed to them. All you have to do is search. But besides this what if there was a service which helped you scan...

The President recently launched the much-awaited and the much-delayed Akash II tablet. While the tablet did manage to charm ministers, it waits to be seen how it fairs among students and teachers. Soon after, the President launched A-VIEW, an e-learning platform. Given the fact that Indians mainly search about education on Google and the way education is imparted is all set to undergo immense change,...

The Aakash tablet has been in the news for the past one year for glorious as well inglorious reasons. First, Aakash II got delayed because of differences between IIT – R and Datawind. Then it was announced that Aakash II will launch in April 2012 with no price hike, but then that got delayed too. Over the past months there has been consistent talk about how the tablet will feature upgraded features...

Microsoft Corporation India recently launched Microsoft Ed-Vantage, an education resourcing program. The purpose of this program is to help students and academic campuses across the country connect with Indian companies thereby giving the former a chance to explore internship and employment opportunities. The launch of this program comes at the back of increasing demands from academic institutions...

With Hungama Mobile backing up Bharti Airtel, the telecom provider has launched a concise 30 day Crash Course for CAT aspirants. The Common Admission Test (CAT) is the pre-requisite for students who wish to get into the myriad management institutes which jointly form the consortium of Indian Institute of Management (IIM). Since late 2011, even Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) & Indian Institute...

Yourstory.in, an online platform for start-ups and entrepreneurs, recently conducted a study titled ‘State of Indian Tech Start-ups’. In this study, they analysed and researched 400 start-ups – each of which was at least four years old and had a product business + customer feedback mechanism designed – spanning six cities of Ahmedabad, Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Bangalore. The...