WE USE TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNITY TO AID COURSE COMPLETION

Great Learning is one of India’s leading ed-tech companies for professional and higher education. It offers career-relevant programmes from world-class universities in the most in-demand domains. As one of the largest professional learning companies with a global footprint in 140+ countries, Great Learning is on a mission to make professionals around the world proficient and future-ready. Arjun Nair, Cofounder, Great Learning, tells us more. Excerpts from the interview:

- Aanchal Ghatak

How are you dealing with the country’s digital divide in education during the pandemic?

While a lot of educational institutions have struggled to provide education online in the last year, we believe that it’s possible to derive the effective learning outcomes through virtual learning. Therefore, to overcome this education crisis and enable Indian institutions to seamlessly deliver a world-class, high-quality, and engaging online learning experience to its learners, we offered our sustainable learning management system, ‘Olympus Digital Campus’,to them amid the pandemic.

Built and perfected over the last 7 years, the platform enables all aspects of learning, including live learning, timetabling, proctored exams, assessments, grading, student collaboration, attendance, content development, progress/engagement tracking, and faculty feedback. So far, it has helped over 150 Indian colleges across towns and cities such as Coimbatore, Visakhapatnam, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Goa, Tenkamijar (Mangalore), Nandyal (AP), and Moradabad (MP) to get them ‘digitally ready’, and has supported over 1,00,000 students in their education continuity.

Besides the disparity in access to basic internet, students also have to battle with many socio-economic challenges. How are you addressing this issue at your end?

The pandemic has posed tough times for a lot of students and professionals, who have not only suffered physically and mentally, but also economically, owing to the massive slump in the job market. Despite this black swan event, millions of learners across the country have turned this downtime into an opportunity to begin their upskilling journey.