Online Education, the New Trend in India

Pawan Chauhan from meritnation.com while speaking about the rising trend of online education in smaller cities said, “A bigger number of students from higher classes log on to the website but a recent trend has shown that there is a high demand from parents of children studying in classes I-V for online education. This is primarily because online content is more attractive,” as reported by TNN. He informed that meritnation.com has a total of 37 lakhs users so far and shows about 1 lakh new entries each month.

Edukart, another online portal, has attracted about 10,000 users from small towns in India over the past one year. Ishan Gupta, Edukart spokesperson said, “In the recent years, we have seen small towns expressing need for assessment modules and animation videos to understand concepts in various subject. Hence, they see online education supplementing the formal one.”

As online education simplifies learning and largely provides assistance to the ‘law of averages’ it appeals both to students and parents alike. Srishti, a class IX student of Delhi Public School said, “It customizes learning solutions, self-explanatory videos and other fun exercises enabling students to understand subjects like mathematics and science interestingly compared to conventional education,” as reported by TNN.

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