Online education: the next big thing in India

The education sector in India is no more bound to simply classrooms. On account of new start-ups and higher internet and smartphone penetration, the online learning space in India is growing multifolds.

The e-learning market in India is assessed to be around $3 billion. The central government's efforts to make digital learning accessible to understudies in every corner of the nation is additionally supporting the sector.

At present, online preparing in India concentrates just as on both school and college-based courses and additionally mid-level professional courses.

For instance, Bengaluru-based Entranceindia gives practice papers to all building and therapeutic passageway tests in India. The organization intends to help understudies concentrate on the right subjects and substance as opposed to swim aimlessly in a sea of study materials accessible crosswise over diverse media. Likewise, they concentrate on comfort based preparing in light of the fact that online ability empowers understudies to get access to subjects at whatever time and anyplace.

As indicated by industry specialists, the fate of education in India will rely on upon online courses.

"A real set again of Indian education framework is the deferral to upgrade syllabus. Subsequently, in future, instead of acquiring a three-year degree course from a tier-1 or tier-2 city in India, there will be more takers for a professional course that is overhauled with the current industry demands," said Krishna Kumar, founder of an online preparing start-up Simplilearn.

Bengaluru-based Simplilearn offers more than 200 affirmation courses in project management, data innovation administration management, Microsoft accreditation, quality management and monetary management.

The organization has more than 300 courses over 150 nations, with more than 600 workers and has prepared more than 200,000 professionals over the globe.

Another company which is leading the way for online education in India is EduKart. EduKart was started in 2011 by Ishan Gupta, alumnus of Stanford University (USA) along with a passionate team of founders.

“This is a very crucial juncture for online education. While the development of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Content) has completely revolutionised the accessibility of education, the sector is looking forward to more engaging and interactive platforms for students to learn. Another challenge is to provide the aspirants with a range of choices so that they can make an informed career decision,” said Ishan Gupta, CEO EduKart.

The company is trying to bridge this gap by providing a range of choices to the aspirants, both in terms of the courses and course providers. As a marketplace, the company offers more than 1000 degree, diploma and certificate courses from 30+ national and international course providers.

The Learning Management System of EduKart, known as EKampus, provides the students with a great platform to learn and develop various skills.

Intellipaat, started in 2011, gives online preparing to IT professionals including corporate preparing, and paced toward oneself courses and offers more than 80 innovative courses crosswise over distinctive spaces. As indicated by CEO Diwakar Chittora, the organization is seeing just about a 1,000% augmentation as far as growth. The organization panders to corporates like Genpact, Ericsson,Sony, CISCO, TCS, Wipro, and Tata Communications among others.

Hyderabad-based Learnsocial is a six-month old organization and deals with an aggregator model. It intends to coddle both mid-level professionals and understudies alike.

"We need to turn into the Amazon of online learning. We need to give a large number of posts on learnsocial.com, totaling substance from different specialists, substance houses or colleges," says founder Raju Vanapala. Learnsocial has near to 200,000 clients and has prepared more than 1,100 learners. 

As indicated by studies, India and China will lead the growth in project management roles, creating around 4 million and 8.1 million roles, separately, by 2020. Subsequently, the business looks to grow from here on out.

An alternate reason why online preparing will pick up energy is a direct result of the requirement for re-skilling, For instance, around a decade back, all that a software professional was obliged to know were programming languages. Presently these professionals need to upgrade themselves on different viewpoints like big data analytics and cloud processing. Better pay treks and advancements are likewise the reasons why individuals embrace new courses.

A great deal of start-ups are now setting their foot in what they think will be the following big thing in India after e-trade. While a few organizations like Simplilearn and Intellipaat look to produce content, particularly going for mid-level professionals, others like Learnsocial plays a greater amount of an aggregator part. These organizations additionally offer mixed classes, coordinating both online and disconnected from the net experience, alongside take toward oneself courses.

In spite of the fact that a dominant part of their clients are from India, these entryways have seen countless from abroad too.