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Pengala, new learning software for students
By Kahuwa Jyoti Das, SiliconIndia
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Friday, 08 April 2011, 19:16 IST
Bangalore: 'Pengala' Learning has launched a new learning technology for students. Pengala's innovation includes software, web services and authoring tools used to create interactive multimedia courses for students. The technology is designed to work on any PC and with or without broadband Internet connection
With the mission to change the way of learning, the Pengala team worked on the technology product for four years with a complete R&D done with the education industry. The learning system combine the classroom and self study, access to teachers, full video lectures, engagement, tutor interactivity, assessments, personalized feedback and peer learning. It delivers a way to study at student's own pace and schedule.
Pradeep Singh, founder and co- chairman, Pengala said 'Pengala's mission is to change the way India learns by making e-learning accessible to all. '
Navin Thangiah, CEO, Pengala, said , "When education companies offer self-study, students stress the need for classroom guidance. When they offer classroom courses, students stress the need for self-study. With Pengala, our partners offer a third choice, which combines the best of both worlds in one solution. While courses for key exams like IITJEE, AIEEE, Medical, and boards are available today, other partners will soon be launching courses in vocational training and higher education."
It has partnered with Brilliant Tutorials, Aakash Institute, Pearson Education, and Future VISTA announcing to take its courses to students nationwide. Pengala has helped institutions to keep a track of the student and their content usage.
The interesting part of the software is, the students are given videos of their teacher's lectures from which they can learn and understand the subjects. They can access the video at any time and they can pause the video while making notes and can continue later. Students can make note of their doubts and mail it to the teachers. If the PC is not connected with Internet it will be saved in a folder and once it's connected with the Internet the mail will go automatically to the respective teachers.
In a developing country like India, education which is expanding into the rural arena, can Pengala be a boon to the students in the rural areas and can it give a new dimension to the educational system? Well, with technologies like this we can only hope that it will make a difference and help students in a real sense.
