Online Learning an opportunity India can't afford to miss!

Online learning is no more an exclusive club or a good to have feature but a critical component of every student's life. Whether the student is in school or a college; a house wife or a corporate executive; preparing for UPSC Civil Service exam or learning how to bake cakes there is one thing that connects them all and that is remote online classes.

What demonetization did to digital payments, corona and lockdown is doing the same to digitization of education in India and globally. One thing we all must keep in mind about online learning is that it is an irreversible change. Even when lockdown is lifted and when everything goes back to normal, we all have got vaccinations shots, still the online learning will be here and kicking. Managements of schools and colleges should get this in their minds, blood and bones and plan accordingly.

After National Education Policy 2020 which has stressed a great deal on digital learning, asynchronous anytime anywhere learning, self pacing, online assessments for individual progress tracking and understanding individual needs using AI. Basically NEP 2020 is the the second push online learning has got in 2020. NEP 2020 focuses on making remote learning as core to the delivery of education. And emphasizes on the need to leverage the strength of online learning rather than looking at it as stop gap arrangement.

How to leverage strength of online learning?

• Biggest strength of online learning is asynchronous or blended learning with the help of high quality digital content. Students can study on their own anytime anywhere . Live classes or synchronous learning is all good but if we really want to unleash the potential of the internet, we need to focus on digital content along with live classes.
• The second biggest strength is online learning is that a teacher can teach a very large number of students as there is no limitation of time and space. In India there is a shortage of well qualified trained and motivated teachers, and ofcourse schools also lack resources to employ the best teachers available. This problem is very well addressed by internet and remote learning.
• Third biggest strength is that needs of individual students are discovered easily. Online tests can be taken daily or even after every class not to rank students but to understand concepts students have got and where they need more support. Something that was not possible in case of physical world where taking a test was a big boring activity and analyzing test score was even more pain.

What are the biggest pain points of online learning?

• Will schools pay for the solution and how much? Schools always avoid any new expense head at all cost. I don't think Indian schools would pay for online learning platforms especially when they are not able to collect fees and are starved for cash very badly as admission fees, development fees, uniform sales, canteen, transport and all such supplementary revenue streams have dried up.
• Who will create the content and how? Creation of digital content is not easy, and involves lot of effort and money. There is no clear cut affordable model to outright buy or license K-12 digital content. Schools simply don't want to involve themselves in content creation.
• Who will train the teachers? Again schools have lot to gain from teachers training but they are neither ready nor understand how investment in teachers training will help them. Hiring more qualified teachers is expensive and schools are not ready for any new cost.

What is Trinn and how it plans to solve these problem for Schools?

Trinn is zero cost online learning platform for schools. Trinn transforms basic schools to high performance digital schools with the help of its cutting edge online learning tech, digital content and live classes from well qualified and trained faculty of Trinn.

Schools don't have to worry about technology cost as Trinn platform is absolutely free for schools forever. Trinn provides high quality K-12 digital content in the form of 2D - 3D video, presentations, PDFs podcasts etc. Trinn trained world class faculty offers classes in K-12 subjects, professional and life skills like coding, English speaking, problem solving, critical thinking, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Trinn is determined to make best learning tech available to each and every school and student of the country. Trinn aims to transform the education in India with superior digital content and live classes by Trinn dynamic faculty . And help Indian students to become top innovators, world leaders and highly skilled global work force.