Edtech companies in India: The new face of learning India

Edtech stands for education technology and is learning as well as a training platform for students, training professionals, and employees and is completely online where individuals can learn anything while being at any place of their comfort whether it’s from a computer or laptop, etc. And is designed for learning, designing, evaluating, developing, etc. It not only engages online but also focuses on personal reports of students and provides them with the best educational feedback as well as resources to enhance their skills. Several Edtech companies are present in the market these days which offer a win-win situation for both educators as well as learners.

The process of starting any Edtech company goes through a series of simplistic processes where an initial investment is made by the founder who starts a particular company and advertises regarding it so that its reach gets increased. After that tutors are hired and students as per their need join a particular platform to enhance their required skills and pay a required fee which goes directly to the company (subdivided and offered to the tutors as well as a handful of commission fees to the platform owner). Different platforms offer study to different level groups whether it’s from kindergarten to 12th or a particular specialization training or preparing for a competitive exam. Some of the very well-known platforms are as follows :

1. BYJUs: This is one of the top educational learning platforms known worldwide and is spread in areas like the US, UK, and other English-speaking regions it is widely famous for offering educational learning to classes 1st to 12th as well as helping in the preparation of national (CAT, IIT-JEE, NEET, Bank & Insurance, IAS, UGC NET, etc.) and international exams (GRE and GMAT). It offers 15-day free access after which individuals have to pay but still offers limited free content to its users and offers approx 20 minutes class sessions to its users along with mock tests, quizzes, and personal guidance from the teachers. Due to all these facilities, BYJUS has become a top-used platform with 100 million users, 6.5 million paid users and an annual retention rate of 85% as per recent data. BYJUS was developed by Think and Learn Private Ltd. and on average users spend 71 minutes per day on the platform. 

2. Unacademy: This is one of the top Indian learning platforms that offer a wide range of learning areas for competitive exams (UPSC, NEET, GATE, etc.), K-12 modules as well as skill-building courses (like photography, entrepreneurship, etc.). It offers special learning media where individuals can attend classes from anywhere cause it’s online, as well as get their doubts cleared during live classes, talk to teachers, answer live polls, give weekly tests, PDFs of lectures being provided, and much more. It also provides specialised courses in commerce, law, etc., and as per the survey of 2017 it has about 1 million learners, more than a set of 5000 educators, and over 40,000 classes because of such wide variety individuals get the opportunity to learn from an educator they like and take notes from any tutor they want. 

3. IIM Skills: It is one of the world’s fastest-growing Edtech platforms that offer different courses like content writing, digital marketing, technical writing, GST practitioner, etc., and are offered a placement at trusted high-tech brands like Accenture, Phillips, and Flipkart, etc.

4. Simplilearn: It is one of the world’s leading platforms for giving online training in Cloud Computing, Data Science, IT, etc. but is quite an expensive app and is ranked first for digital economy skills training in terms of online boot camp. Its also well known for giving well-known certification training for different areas like cyber security , project management, etc. that’s why offers real-world standing credibility to individuals.

5. UpGrad: It’s a slightly different kind of education portal that provides learning for industry-based programs to a wide range of age groups ranging from 18 to 55+ years and provides training from working professionals to students. It even offers job-linked programs, abroad study, masters and doctoral degrees, HR Management, AI, etc.

6. Extramarks: It’s a slightly different kind of platform because of its mode of learning i.e. in both online as well as offline mediums. Other than its rating category it offers a special study evaluation technique where the learning pattern of children is being mapped as per their home curriculum and is constantly being monitored by their parents as well as respective teachers. It provides learning of subjects that are aligned with multiple national and state board curricula as well as provides learning for different competitive exams like NEET, JEE, etc.

Therefore Edtech platforms are the face of the new generation and are playing a vital role in changing the education outlook as well as the face of society.

Disclaimer: The above list doesn’t indicates the ranking of Edtech platforms.