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Things you would change about edtech!
Edtech is dead, agreed. But we haven't reached the quality of output which is expected from education in India. We don't have quality outputs, most youngsters are unemployed and this change has to start from education.
Byju, UA or Vedantu are the highest valued edtechs but they are not the face of what an education company should be like in a country like India. Let's leave them to the karma of their shortcomings and cheating.
On a serious note trying to understand how we can use amalgamation of tech and education to get the desired result.
16mo ago
RichDadsPoorSon
Stealth16mo
I believe it’s time we stop chasing “unicorn” status in EdTech and rather focus on building quality products rather than try and just sell to whoever has got the money for it.
Would ease up the burden on the sales team and start making it a healthy sector to work in. Right now they hire anyone who can speak on a phone and then expect them to work ungodly hours , targets which force them to miss sell as people are really skeptical about EdTechs so nobody wants to miss someone who’s a warm or hot lead so they lack the motivation to be ethnical.
Overall a complete revamp has to be done on the whole sector so that people start believing in EdTech and it actually becomes a respectable industry to work in as well as the products become something people can take advantage of.
As of now on paper the concept of EdTech is amazing it’s just how the management of these companies have butchered it up for employees and customers in the quest for profitability and valuations.
LooseGoose
Stealth16mo
I have to disagree, even the concept is shit on paper.
I would expect edtech to actually bring technology to the table like Brilliant.com , what we have instead is recorded lectures in a video format, with shitty production and animation quality across the board. Putting question papers in a clickable format and shoving recorded lectures onto students is not fucking edtech.
All of Indian edtech is a scam. Not only have they destroyed the education market overall so even other teachers get shit pay now, they've also damaged the startup ecosystem and trust in edtech itself.
The way out is not better management, it's burning this shit show to the ground and starting afresh.
Barbaadeshwar
Stealth16mo
Amen. Ameen. Tathastu.
MetalMan20
Stealth16mo
The day the ecosystem realises that ed-tech is more about driving sustainable outcomes for every individual to the best of their capabilities rather than taking a brand first approach thinking everyone will sip into the kool aid they've been drinking and sing koombayah, that's when the system will change.
The model needs hauling, because all everyone has done is make a mockery of people's aspirations and dreams. I don't leave the upskilling market as well, everyone is playing on trends to mis-selling. No one is really focused on how the content they've built could be distributed at a fraction of the cost to the unders served masses. There are beautiful ways to blend this with the trending hybrid models to truly make it more accessible for everyone, but no one is doing it.
The day the companies start realising education is holistic, incorporating tech to actually personalise learning, make systemic changes to how to view education rather than just fancy titles or exams and then align individual outcomes to the best of their potential is when truly there will be new markets.
In terms of incorporating tech, upskilling needs an overhaul as well. The tech with gen AI coming in could be well used to understand the psychometrics and abilities for professionals to help them tie better with career programs and choices. Instead of one size fits all, modular approach to plug and play self looped learning would be critical to match people for transparently to their dream jobs than random folks promising FAANG or any other opportunities. Leveraging tech to build real life PoW for aspirants to help them stand out in roles. Just some of the ways where things needs systemic changes
LooseGoose
Stealth16mo
Khan academy has an interesting custom AI implementation and plans to design it as a personalized tutor with socratic learning at its core for the AI as well as the student. Truly remarkable, hope they succeed and that others learn from it.
GreenRanger
Most of the information is available online for free. Resources is never a problem but the drive and commitment to learn for youngsters is.
EdTechs don't sell education, the sell commitment and a dream of an inflated output (100% placement, guaranteed admissions)
I've heard stories of UA where they paid to bring a student who cleared CAT on self study under their banner. They paid like ₹1+ for a perfect CAT score. Imagine the impact.
Learning can be free and always is. Question is will you opt-in voluntarily.
Whoever tried to disrupt the traditional education system will get disrupted sooner or later.
We don't need EdTechs who sell courses.
Going ahead we need to give tools (software and hardware) to students to simply follow their curiosity. Learning if not immediately will happen eventually.
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