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WATShow.com caught up with GlobalScholar.com CEO Kal Raman who prior to joining GlobalScholar.com, he was the SVP of WW hardlines at amazon.com since Aug 2004. At amazon.com, Kal was in charge of the world wide hardlines business and also in charge of retail technology and online marketing for the entire company. Kal held variety of jobs at drugstore.com from 1998-2004. He was the CEO of drugstore.com from 2001-04 and also served as COO and CIO.

He shares his views on importance of education, raising funds for a business, competition and his success mantra

Do stay tuned to WATShow.com for part 2. Also check out the other interviews here.

Last time I covered Learnhub.com, when it was launched in March, this year. They have create d community model around the activity of learning. They had some partnership with Educomp then. I noticed a lot of people forming communities around different subjects and asking questions.

Naukri.com’s much awaited education portal shiksha.com has just been launched. And the portal first impression (based on design and UI) isn’t impressive at all. Shiksha.com is surely NOT eyecandy and already has google ads on the homepage! My question is.. Is it really required? Given that naukri has enough money to support this site till its good to make decent revenue?

After the first India UK virtual school there has been plenty of companies who have stepped into the business of e-learning. Few days back IIT lectures and entrance test went online with mock test for entrance test on Tata Indicom Mobiles. Now, MBD Alchemie has partnered with IBM for delivering e-learning courses.
 
 
MBD Alchemie, [...]

 
Medical Education Research Centre (MEdRC) a Hyderabad based elearning company has launched a service for medical students. They have digitized the learning content for the students which allow students to repeatedly listen to the lectures at thir own time and pace. This article states that this service is being provided keeping the slow learners in [...]

Collegemantra.com started by a Delhi-based start-up company Mantra Consulting has launched  an online college search portal that offers advanced college and course search options to high school and college students. Currently it has 5000 colleges, over 28000 courses and has over 300 experts to answer student’s questions.
It also offers college ratings which are given by students registered [...]

Extramarks.com which is an online education portal that deals with after school online learning and revision for students of standard VI to XII according to the NCERT syllabus. Its promoted by Noida-based international BPO company Cleaveglobal E-Services Limited. According to this article ExtraMarks.com is in talks with 3 VC’s and is looking to raise over [...]

Im sure if you are an active reader then you must have heard the buzz about naukri.com looking at launching an education portal.  Also recently there was speculation that the portal might be called Shiksha.com. In English ‘Shiksha’ stands for education so its right in line with the Naukri lineage which means jobs in english.
Clearing [...]