Innovative e learning solution providers in 2019

Vol. 4/ Issue-6
Innovative
E-learning
Solution
Providers in
2019
Siddharth Banerjee
Founder and CEO
INDUSGEEKSTraining the Workforce of Tomorrow
TRENDS TO WATCH
E-learning Trends that
Will Dominate the
Year 2019
VIRTUAL LEARNING
Virtual Classroom:
E-learning trends that
will dominate the
year 2019
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nnovation is one term that can spark excitement anywhere.
IWhat’s new is a question that everyone wants an answer to. And
man being an inquisitive creature, looking out for new things and
new methodologies is just another trait that marks it diﬀerent from
other species. To innovate one needs to learn about things. And to
learn one needs to undergo the process of education- formal or
informal. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that education and
learning is the key to innovation. So what beget innovation must also
be always updated and in-sync with modern times. Hence, it is all the
more important that innovative education or innovative learning be
supported.
Innovation in Education is important to keep the learners or students
upbeat about learning. Human attention span, in today’s electronic
time is becoming shorter than ever. In order to grab one’s attention
and make then learn during a session anywhere is a big task.
Innovation is what keeps learners coming to seek knowledge and
keep the cycle of learning and innovating going.
Education itself has changed over the years. From the days when all
the knowledge was passed on verbally to the written documents and
now the virtual instructions, it has come a long way. E-Learning today
is considered a revolution which is bringing education to all and
breaking many educational barriers. This change is necessary
because what was relevant yesterday might not be the same today.
What has not changed though is the spirit to make generations
educated, learned and a society that is enlightened. What needs to be
seen is how every innovation adds on to the value of education. How
technology is bridging the education gap. How it is helping the society
to be more aware about its surroundings. How thought provoking, in-
depth and yet interesting do these innovations make learning to be.
And not to forget, how it treats the world in equity.
The cycle of education and innovation must go on as they
complement each other and make the world an interesting place to
be. And as John Dewey, the great American philosopher,
psychologist, and educational reformer said, “If we teach today’s
students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
From the
EDITOR
Embracing Innovation in
Education for Excellence
Sneha Sinha
Sneha Sinha

Indusgeeks
Training the Workforce
of Tomorrow
Futuristic Education
Future of Education:
Interactive and Collaborative
Learning Environment
Trends to Watch
Future of Education:
Interactive and Collaborative
Learning Environment
Virtual Gaming
Gaming & eSports in India:
The Opportunity & the Challenges.
Virtual Learning
Virtual Classroom:
E-learning trends that will
dominate the year 2019
08 22 30
62 52
COVER STORY
CXO

Pragati Leadership
Transforming today's
Leaders for Tomorrow
SQUAD
Making India
Industry Ready
INTERVIEWS
IxamBee
Helping Learners
to Ace Competitions
Delivering Solutions for
Digital Agility
Miracle Corporate
Learning Mode
E-Learning: Learning Without
Limitations
Writer’s Column
E-Learning Trends in 2019:
The Pathway to Future
ARTICLES
Memcorp Immersive
Play, Learn, Repeat
44 36
16
48
58 26
66

34
56
38
70
20
42
Code & Pixels
Transforming Learning
through Technology
Designmate
Empowering education
with Virtual reality
Enggenious
Well Crafted Learning
Solutions
Manipal ProLearn
Leading Professional
Learning Company
Prime Meridian
Consulting
Building Transformational
Leaders
Swift Solution
Learning Made
Measurable and
Meaningful

earning is the essence of life. We learn as we grow and we grow as we learn. While we learn from our daily
Llife, formal education plays a crucial role in how we spend our life. It opens gates of opportunities, helps us
think logically and rationally and also to share our learning and knowledge.
The digital age today is breaking the shackles of traditional learning and creating new ways to learn and explore. E-
learning is making learning fun, interactive, immersive and creative. In this issue of Insights Success, we are glad to
enlist “Innovative E-learning Solution Providers in 2019”. These companies are providing features and ways that
make learning more relevant with the times today.
The Cover Story of this issue features Indusgeeks, which is considered a pioneer in the ﬁeld of Game-Based Training,
Virtual Reality Training and Augmented Reality Training.
Also featuring in this issue are Code & Pixels Interactive Technologies Pvt. Ltd, an e-learning service provider
delivering end-to-end Software development & E-Learning solutions using innovative technology, Designmate (I) Pvt
Ltd, which develops world’s best 3D e-Learning Content, Manipal ProLearn, which is empowering corporates and
individuals to master new skills and achieve their goals by pursuing curated employee training programs and industry-
relevant courses, Prime Meridian Consulting India Private Limited , a company incorporated with the purpose of
building leaders everywhere, SAN Techno Mentors Pvt Ltd(Enggeniuos), learning solutions experts in engineering
and manufacturing domains, and Swift Solution Pvt. Ltd., which oﬀers customized content development services
across various domains and verticals.
The issue also highlights the CXO Standpoints of Anubha Maurya Walia, Founder- Director of Prism Trainings
Consultancy, Ashwini Purohit, Co-founder of Winuall, Himanshu Jain, Founder and CEO of Acro Engineering
Company and Ramaya Chatterjee, Director (Sales) of Barco India.
The insightful interviews of Arun Wakhlu, Founder, Pragati Leadership, Anupam Srivastav, Founder, Miracle
Technologies, Chandraprakash Joshi Co-founder, ixamBee, Maneesh Jha, Co-founder, SQUAD Infotech Pvt.
Ltd. and Shashwat Dhuliya, Creative Designer, Memcorp Immersive Learning Solutions showcase the latest in E-
Learning Services. Go through the latest trends in our in-house article E-Learning Trends in 2019 The Pathway to
Future from Writer’s Column. Read about how E-Learning is helping everyone with or without special needs learn in
E-Learning: Learning Without Limitations from Learning Mode.
We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did while creating it!!
For an Experience Called Learning

Ind
We transform legacy
learning content into
fun, immersive,
interactive training
solutions that engage
learners and captivate
their attention
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Siddharth Banerjee
Founder and CEO
COVER STORY

dusgeeks
Training the Workforce of Tomorrow
Learning is more effective when it is an active rather than a
passive process – Kurt Lewin, German-American
Psychologist.
Learning is a lifelong process. And surely, something
that we are going to do all the time should be
interesting, effective and engaging. As a kid, when
the learning process starts, be it informally at home or
formally in a play-school, the emphasis is on activity-driven
learning. Rhymes, stories, toys, songs are all an integral
part of the learning process. But as we grow, the joy of
learning seems to dissipate. Fixed syllabuses, patterns,
exams, competitions all seem focused on manufacturing
professionals instead of producing creative thinkers. The
content and lessons seem to be more boring, test and job-
centric rather than being fun, curiosity satiating and
intriguing.
Dismayed by dysfunctional educational and training
systems fuelled by boring content on dated technologies,
Siddharth ‘Sid’ Banerjee, decided to find a solution.
Indusgeeks was thus born out of this need to make training
content fun and effective using immersive interactive
technologies such as training games and simulations.

Leveling Up
Founded in Mumbai, India,
in 2007, Indusgeeks has
grown to become a global
leader in Ed Tech solutions
serving Fortune 500
companies and governments
worldwide. It is a multi-
award-winning company
considered to be a pioneer in
the field of Game-Based,
Virtual Reality and
Augmented Reality training
for all industry types and
processes.
Indusgeeks serves the vocational
and enterprise training markets
globally with offices and partners in
San Jose, Mumbai, Dubai, and
London.
Meet the Geek-in-Chief
Growing up, Sid watched the Indian
education system fail at every level by
over-emphasizing memorization and
preparation for standardized tests,
instead of fostering a lifelong love of
learning. He realized the power of
tapping into something that people
enjoy and founded Indusgeeks to
channel the love of gaming into a love
of learning. An entrepreneur and
thought-leader in the field of Applied
Gaming and Virtual Reality, Sid
spotted the market for ‘Immersive-
Internet’ technologies. His pioneering
work as the of Indusgeeks hasCEO
positioned Indusgeeks as one of the
leading Game-Based & Virtual Reality-
Based Training companies. Indusgeeks
has received multiple awards and has
most recently been honoured with The
Brandon-Hall Gold Award “Bestfor
Use of Games & Simulations for
Learning”.
Sid was nominated by NASSCOM as a
founding Board Member of
NASSCOM’s Applied Gaming, Special
Interest Group (SIG). He thus gets to
work with governments and the
gaming industry worldwide to
formulate key policies that are directly
transforming the applied gaming
ecosystem. A passionate evangelist for
the medium, he’s been invited to speak
at various events and summits on
emerging trends in applied gaming
technology.
In addition, Sid, in collaboration with
partners from Stanford University,
created one of the first digital
healthcare training platforms to
transform healthcare education and
training worldwide.
Along with his team of passionate
Geeks, Sid has been responsible for
growing Indusgeeks into a mission-
driven EdTech company determined to
transform vocational and enterprise
training for learners around the globe.
Curating the Content
With each unique client comes unique
learning requirements. Indusgeeks
tailors its interactive training content to
the client’s needs. However, some key
considerations for deciding the type of
content to be created remain common
among all clients, namely:
Ÿ Target Group - The person who is
actually going to use this content.
Indusgeeks does ‘persona
development’ to ensure the content
matches the needs of the target
group.
Ÿ Level of Interactivity - Based on the
target group it decides the
appropriate level of interactivity in
the solution. For instance, content
targeting older users may require
lower levels of interactivity
compared to content created for
millennials or Gen Z.
Ÿ Accurate Assessment - One of the
key benefits of sim-based or game-
based training is the ability to assess
the learner actually applying the
knowledge by practicing in a digital
simulation. This allows the company
to create a formative assessment
Through our content
transformation platform, INIT, we
are able to create customized
gamification solutions for a number
of corporate training processes
“
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Ÿ matrix that accurately reflects the
learner’s level of knowledge, unlike
traditional MCQ tests.
Meeting the Requirements
Once the initial analysis is done, the
Geeks then proceed to develop the
solutions based on customer
requirement. Their services include:
Ÿ Game-Based Training and Learning:
Indusgeeks provides customers and
businesses with a broad portfolio of
game-based and gamified training
solutions. Their platform, INIT
(Interactive, Narrative, Immersive
Training), supports self-paced
learning with the help of intelligent,
interactive bots that engage with the
user and provide an immersive
experience. This results in a fun,
engaging learning experience that
intends to keep learners coming back
for more. Indusgeeks’immersive
learning platform (INIT) supports
both formative and summative
assessment based on client
requirements. These quantify the
knowledge retention of the learners
playing the game-based learning
solution. Its solutions feature
gamification and social layers (such
as leader boards, badges, the ability
to post top scores to Twitter and
Facebook among
others) to improve
user engagement.
Social learning features such as
leader boards and badges also
introduce the element of competition
- one of the most important aspects
of learning. The platform has the
ability to collect and store vast
amounts of analytical data that helps
create a more personalized learning
experience for the end user.
Ÿ Virtual Reality/ Augmented Reality
Training: With recent advances in
the field of Virtual Reality (VR) and
Augmented Reality (AR) Indusgeeks
recognized the potential of these
technologies to transform training.
These solutions truly add a new
level of immersion for learners,
allowing them to interact with
training content in a more realistic
way than existing video-gaming
technologies. These are supported by
high-end devices such as the Oculus
Rift and the HTC Vive, as well as
budget VR solutions such as the
Oculus Go and Google Cardboard.
Indusgeeks has the expertise to
create any type of virtual reality or
augmented reality solution for
enterprise training, onboarding, and
compliance.
Ÿ Interactive eLearning Content:
Indusgeeks provides simulation-
based training solutions. It creates
immersive, interactive and engaging
solutions for a variety of training
like leadership development, sales,
soft skills, etc. These simulations
span the gamut of the interactive
spectrum from Level 3 & 4 high-
fidelity simulations to Level 1 &
Level 2 simpler interactive e-
learning content.
Unique Propositions
INIT – Indusgeeks’ fully customizable
platform, Interactive Narrative
Immersive Training (INIT) is unique
because it offers all the benefits of a
standard e-learning platform like recap
assessments and analytics while also
delivering high-fidelity, interactive, 3D
content like a video game.
INIT XR - It allows Indusgeeks to
easily port interactive content created
on the platform for computers and
mobile devices to
virtual/augmented/mixed reality
devices, future-proofing content for its
clients.
A Struggling Vocational and Higher-
Ed Sector
The Ministry of Skill Development and
Our solutions can be easily
deployed on a wide variety of
commercially available LMS’s
such as CornerStone,
PeopleSoft and Saba
“
“

The gamiﬁcation
solutions have multi-
platform support right
out of the box and can
be deployed on any
device - mobile
phones, computers
and even VR and AR
headsets
“
“

Entrepreneurship (MSDE)’s estimate
for the number of people who needed
skills training was 126.87 million
people in 34 sectors across industries
by 2022. However, the government
lacks adequate resources at every
level to meet these ambitious goals.
Sharing its view on the current
challenges that the Indian vocational
training sector is facing, the company
points out the problems as under:
Ÿ Inadequate Vocational Training
Infrastructure: India lacks the
resources to create enough physical
training centres to impart
vocational training to its growing
population of young adults and
teenagers. Years of under-investment
in education at all levels has resulted
in a very low capacity generation.
This is unlikely to change any time
soon.
Ÿ Lack of Quality Professional
Education: According to a post by
firstpost.com, approximately 18.43
percent of engineering graduates are
employable, which means 80 percent
of them are unemployable. The
situation is worse for plain graduates
and that is where the real malaise
lies. The system, however, is pressed
by widespread quality challenges;
the vast majority of graduates - as
many as 75% by some estimates -
are not considered employable.
Therefore, Indusgeeks’ mission is to
address this gap in physical
infrastructure and lack of standardized
training by providing world-class
vocational and professional
development content using a fully
digital delivery model that will scale to
meet the educational challenges faced
by India’s youth.
Riding the Technology Wave
Indusgeeks is building a future-ready
platform that will combine Artificial
Intelligence/Machine Learning with
interactive Virtual and Augmented
Reality content. It is aimed at
delivering quality learning to
enterprises, globally. But this platform
will also cover the remotest corners of
India and other emerging economies.
As part of its CSR, Indusgeeks offers
free healthcare training courses to
impoverished communities in Africa
and India. It also works with corporate
clients and utilizes their CSR budgets
to deliver world-class training to
underserved communities.
Game On!
The eLearning sector has opened up
avenues that young entrepreneurs are
eager to capitalize on. Advising them,
Sid says, “It is important to be
mission-driven and to challenge
existing education hierarchies and
institutions. Artificial intelligence, new
hardware and broadband will change
the learning and training landscape
dramatically in the next couple of
decades.” He opines that entrepreneurs
should start investing in the future and
not in the age-old mass education
model whose time has passed.
Meanwhile, Indusgeeks plans to be the
go-to platform for all vocational
training worldwide. With low-cost,
high-quality courses, available on-
demand to anyone who needs to train
to improve their employability.
Our expertise in
creating engaging
training content and
delivery frameworks
makes us the right
partner to train your
millennial workforce
“
“
San Jose, CAHeadquarter
Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, IT/ITes, Energy,
Manufacturing and Healthcare.
E-learning, Game-Based Training, Virtual Reality /
Augmented Reality based
Segments Handled
Prominent Industry Verticals
Microsoft, Infosys, Santander Bank, Stanford University
Most Prominent Clients
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ixamBeeHelping Learners to Ace Competitions
16| April 2019 |

ixamBee is revolutionizing
education on the digital platform. It
offers authentic test questions easy
learning material and engaging content
using technology. byCo-founded
Chandraprakash Joshi, Arunima
Sinha and Sandeep Singh, it aims at
equipping learners so that they ace
competitive exams.
In the following interview,
Chandraprakash Joshi divulges more
details about the company, its working
and goals.
1. Kindly brief us about your
company and its initial journey.
ixamBee, is an online learning
place for competitive exams for
jobs in banking, insurance, Centre
and State government jobs and
others. ixamBee uses technology to
create exam specific content at low
cost by connecting Subject Matter
Experts. In less than 2 years
more than 5 lakh students have
registered at ixamBee and
have solved 82 crore plus
questions. ixamBee is the only
place that provides all mock
tests for free for more than 50
competitive exams. Thousands
of students have appreciated
the content quality of ixamBee
and our success rate in
recruitment exams like RBI,
NABARD, SEBI, IBPS PO
and IBPS SO (Specialised
Officer) has been excellent in
the first year of the launch of
the learning course.
2. Brief us about the
Founder/CEO and the
motivation behind choosing
E-learning platform?
I started my career working
with the banking sector. I
worked with the RBI for 6
years and then with Financial
Inclusion division of YES Bank. I
have lived in villages and during
my work also I travelled to different
parts of rural India and that is when
I realised the gap in access to
quality education. I observed that
millions of small-town students are
ready to pay for education but are
not getting the quality education
and online learning is the way to
reach these youths scattered all over
the places.
Arunima (one of the co-founders)
quit her government job (She was
Manager in SIDBI) to pursue her
passion for education. She started
Stratagem – a coaching institute for
competitive exams. In the first year
5 students joined the coaching and
all 5 got selected.
In 2016, I, Arunima and Sandeep
met and started ixamBee, to make
quality education available to
millions of students. Sandeep has
extensive experience of internet
industry. The common passion for
education and the willingness to do
benefit the unemployed youth of the
nation have made ixamBee a
favourite among students very
quickly. We three founders have our
school education from small towns
and bring complementary skills in
education, online industry,
entrepreneurship, and business
development.
3. What are the key points that you
consider while developing the E-
learning content?
We strongly believe that content is
the king. The uniqueness of our
content is:
· All learning material is crisp and
relevant
· The content is updated regularly,
which is a must for competitive
exams
· Subject Matter Specialists study the
previous year exam pattern and
prepare the test paper and learning
material based on that and as per
the notified syllabus
4. Brief us about the services that the
company offers.
ixamBee has two types of offerings
for students:
· Free Mock Tests – These are the
simulations of the real exam, which
students practice in the
computerised environment. We
provide Mock Tests for more than
50 exams and we provide these for
FREE. Post attempting the tests, the
users are provided with a detailed
performance analysis which helps
them in identifying weak areas.
Each question is provided with a
detailed explanation.
· Online Learning Courses – We
have learning courses for Bank PO,
IBPS PO, RBI, NABARD, SEBI,
IBPS SO, LIC AAO, IBPS Clerk,
RRB, and other exams. These
courses are prepared by Subject
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Matter Specialists and consist of recorded videos, short notes, practice questions and live sessions for doubt clarification.
5. What are the challenges in the Education Sector in India?
The biggest challenge we see is that a large number of bright students, living in small towns and villages are not getting
access to qualified and passionate educators. The most talented students do not become a teacher and especially the quality
of teachers in small towns is very poor. We have a large young population- there are 30 crore students in India and in the
absence of quality education we will lose the demographic dividend.
6. Please share the latest technology that the company is utilizing to offer better learning solutions.
ixamBee is using low-cost technology for recording videos and making questions. We have partnered with Kidaptive, a
Silicon Valley-based company that uses Artificial Intelligence for adaptive learning. Kidaptive is helping us in improving
exam analysis and product customization as per the user requirement. Using technology, we connect Subject Matter
Specialist with students from all parts of the country.
7. How does the firm intend to handle its Societal Responsibility? Please mention any special charity or program as
such.
ixamBee is the only website that provides all Mock Tests for FREE to all students. In addition to this, we provide career
guidance, exam awareness and general awareness related material to all the users for free. Today more than 99.5% of our
customers are free users, learning and improving their scores. In the coming years also less than 1% of our users are going
to be paid users and the rest of students will continue to learn for free. In the paid courses also ixamBee offers scholarships
to bright students.
8. What would be your advice for the budding start-ups and entrepreneurs in the industry?
One needs to focus on making content appropriate to the students’ requirement.
There is a large unmet need of student who are looking for exam specific content and get confused with the
information overload on the internet.
9. Brief us about the company’s future perspectives.
ixamBee will continue to provide the best quality content for more exams. There are more than 200 exams that we plan to
cover through our Mock Tests and 2-3 crore students will get access to these tests for FREE to practice for the competitive
exams. Using technology, we are going to improve the learning experience and also provide better customisation of the
content.
New DelhiHeadquarter
Online Education, EdTech
Test Prep in Online LearningSegments Handled
Graduates preparing for competitive
exams for jobsMost Prominent Clients
About 1000 hoursTotal Content Hours
Quick Facts
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Code& Pixels:
Transforming Learning through Technology
Established in 2012, Code &
Pixels Interactive
Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (C&P)
is ranked in the top 3 e-learning
companies in Hyderabad, India. It
provides end-to-end e-learning
solutions specializing in the innovative
use of technology. The shift from
classroom learning to e-learning is
credited to the new technologies in
digital education and smart electronic
devices such as mobile phone,
computer, tablet and others. With
various feature-oriented applications,
students now enjoy the freedom to
learn at their own pace and understand
the concepts as everything is just a
click away.
An Experienced Initiator
G. Gopi Krishna, Founder and CEO,
C&P has an impressive two decades of
experience in e-learning. He also heads
the Technology, Sales and Marketing
wings. He has executed more than
25000 hours of content and developed
training software for various sectors
including Defence, Insurance and
Banking, Health and Pharmaceutical,
K-12 and more. He has a strong
command over various tools &
technologies of e-learning domain and
has designed, developed and executed
hundreds of Content Development Life
Cycles (CDLC) comprising of
thousands of hours of Multimedia rich
content for both Sharable Content
Object Reference Model (SCORM) and
Non-SCORM projects.
Services One Can Count On!
C&P’s major strength is the
development of sophisticated and
customized contents to industries in
various verticals. It aims towards
creating exciting and innovative e-
learning and IT products and services.
Its ability to handle unstructured
situations with ease gives life to ideas
and concepts that have seldom been
implemented lately. It confidently
manages large and complex projects
without slipping on delivery deadlines
while maintaining the highest
standards of quality and efficiency.
There are 3 Technology divisions in
the company-- Software Development
wing, Content Engineering Wing and
Research and Development Wing.
In 2014-15, the company designed,
developed and launched its Smart
Classroom Content under Brand Name
Digital Teacher (DT) which is now
being used by thousands of educational
institutes across India. C&P is also
serving universities, corporates like
TATA, L&T and government
organizations like Indian Railways,
National Police Academy around India
for Content development. It has been
empanelled by UGC and Ministry of
HRD and INFLIBNET Center to
develop content for pan India
universities.
Curating Creative Content
C&P is a client-centric and process-
driven organization which considers
‘content’ as the king. It emphasizes on
understanding and analyzing the real
needs of the client’s business and then
provides cost-effective solutions in
form of content. Its Software
Development & Content Engineering
Wing executes work orders/ Projects.
The Research & Development Wing
provides the latest technology related
support to the development team and
researches on the latest tools, open
source products and also prepares
Quality Assurance Documents to
support Quality Check.
While launching DT, it discussed with
Principals and lab faculty across the
country and realized that institutes
want easy-to-use software so that
students can learn on their own.
Keeping that in mind, it developed DT
as a self-explanatory and easy-to-
navigate interface which does not teach
to assist or guide.
With Digital Education slowly
becoming mandatory in schools, the
need to create quality content becomes
even more important. Digital teaching
material supports self and self-paced
learning in the students, increases the
interest levels and the retention power
of the students and C&P wants to
contribute to it.
For A Tech-enabled Future
C&P has developed a Mobile Learning
App and also Moodle based Learning
Management syAstem. It also develops
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Custom eLearning courses in HTML
-5 which is responsive and
compatible with all Operating
Systems and various browsers.
Augmented Reality, Virtual reality,
Simulation-based Learning, Game-
based learning are being used in the
education sector globally. In India,
few schools are using these
technologies but the cost is high and
the syllabus is different. To bridge
this gap, C&P has started Research
and Development activities on
AR/VR and intends to produce a
low-cost solution. By the year-end, it
will be ready with the technology.
“Our Aim is to make technology affordable so
that every educational institute must be
able to use it in teaching effectively”
Headquarter
Hyderabad, India
Smart Classrooms, English Language Lab,
Customized content development solutions
Segments Handled
Education, Banking, Defense, Corporates
State Bank of India, Bank of India, Advanced
system laboratories ( ASL), Bharat Electronics
Limited, UGC, L & T, NTPC and more
50,000 Hours
Total Content Hours
Quick
Facts
|21| April 2019

About the Author
Ramya Chatterjee, Director
– Sales (Visualization &
Entertainment), Barco India is an
industry leader with over 16
years of experience. Ramya
heads the company’s sales
division in the South Asian
market with a view to enhancing
and streamlining its P&L
functions and tapping India’s
enormous business potential. In
the course of his illustrious
career, he gained hands-on
experience across industries in
Audio Visual (AV), Information &
Communication Technology
(ICT), IT hardware/software and
Oﬃce Automation (OA)
technologies. He is frequently
invited to lecture at professional
institutions to share his
expertise in sales, marketing,
and technology.
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Future
EducationInteractive and Collaborative Learning Environment
earning spaces where students work together at large tables,
Lconnecting with both each other and the teacher. Multi-location
learning where groups of students at different locations follow
interactive courses. Or even a step further: virtual classrooms where each
studentcanbeinadifferentplaceandtheeducatorinyetanother.
Do thesescenariossound likescenesfromasci-fi movie?
Intoday’sworld of technology…probablynot.
The traditional way of teaching, featuring teachers/professors reading out
loud a syllabus, is almost a thing of the past. The future of our education lies
in Collaborative learning spaces, multi-location learning, adaptive learning
systems and virtual classrooms. The main purpose is more dialogue &
interaction between students and teachers. The role of real-life educators
remains crucial, but he or she should embrace the latest educational
technology.
Using a wide array of information exchange tools and a focus on
connectivity and interactivity, the collaborative way of learning is designed
with modern students in mind – students who have grown up with mobile
technology and absorb information through them quickly. These students
are entering a very different working world than their parents’, and new
educationalmethodswillpreparethemfor thedigitalage.
of
Futuristic Education
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Technology–aclickaway
Today’s world is fast-paced, and innovative products seem to pop up every day. Education has also evolved
rapidly in the past few years, and technology plays a large role in these changes. So much information comes
at students from so many angles that identifying and absorbing the valuable parts of that information is more
difficult than ever before. Technology has evolved, and so have the methods students use to learn. More
people than ever are connecting to educators and taking classes remotely. While some of these solutions are
fantastic and offer a great way for students to telecommute, there are others plagued with problems. Students
and instructors shouldn’t have to squander their education time learning a new interface or device or
troubleshootingissues.
EmbracingBYOD and theNew Classroom
Collaborative learning solutions are for much more than providing a platform for sharing visual materials and
making note-taking easier. With seamless BYOD support for a customized application, teachers are no
longer limited to the traditional lecture-style classroom, and students have access to a more robust learning
environment & information. Collaborative Learning integrates classroom displays and connected devices
and embeds them in the network, so students can connect to classes from anywhere.This new type of learning
experience offers students the ability to learn more comfortably and share their resources with peers.
Fostering collaborative efforts in the educational realm is indicative of the new workplace – more of today’s
employees are choosing to work remotely and on-the-go, so having this experience earlier in the classroom
makes adapting to modern work styles part of the educational process. Students learn their trades and hone
their skills while adapting to new ways of sharing ideas and connecting with peers. Embracing BYOD means
students can engage with their own devices and still collaborate and share content. When students use their
own devices– deviceswhich theyareextremelyfamiliarwith – one step of difficultyis removed,and learning
becomesseamless&effortless.
Augmented and virtualreality–Keepingup with thetrends
Virtual and augmented reality technology is making huge waves in the business, marketing, and
entertainment industries, but these technological advances present huge opportunities in the world of
education. Using advanced forms of visualization, educators can offer more robust, hands-on, practical skill-
building activities. Students today will enter the workforce with far more hands-on experience than previous
generations. But learning doesn’t have to be relegated to the classroom. With the proper security of content,
education can meet the students where they are. The roadmap provides technology that enables both virtual
and remote classrooms. Training simulations and working in 3D spaces for research and development are
becoming increasingly common sights, and we geared the Collaborative Learning Platform for preparing
today’sstudentstohandlethesetoolsintheworking world.
In a nutshell, today’s technology-driven generation requires new ways of teaching: more interaction,
participation and engagement instead of long monologues from teachers standing in front of the classrooms.
With advanced visualization technology, intuitive application platforms, BYOD functionality, and
classroom collaboration solutions such as wePresent, ClickShare etc. are helping prepare a new generation
for thedigitalage.
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PRAGATI
LEADERSHIP
Transforming Today’s Leaders For Tomorrow
ince 1988, Pragati Leadership is focussed in developing future ready leaders who co-create proﬁtable, sustainable
Sand joyful businesses. Founded by Anu Wakhlu and Arun Wakhlu, the company has been chiseling leaders to
develop holistic teams and companies. In the following Interview with Insights Success, Arun Wakhlu takes us on a
journey into the world that has been building leaders.
1. Kindly brief us about your company and its initial journey.
Pragati Leadership supports organizations to build wholesome leaders who catalyze change across teams, businesses, society
and the planet. For over 30 years we have worked with more than 860 organizations to transform 1,20,400 leaders and build
sustainable businesses by combining result-oriented thinking with mindfulness.
Headquartered in Pune, we have operations in Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, and Delhi-NCR. We have delivered value
in over 29 countries around the world.
Our initial journey began in 1985 from a tiny ﬂat in Pune. The Founders, Ms. Anu Wakhlu (MCC) and Arun Wakhlu (co-
author of the book ‘One Wholesome World’), set up Pragati Leadership in response to the question: “How can our
organisations be more joyful and productive at the same time?” We found that people who followed their inner calling, had a
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higher purpose, and saw work as an
opportunity to serve from one’s gifts
were more joyful and productive.
Our belief is that people are at the heart
of every organization. It is people who
drive business forward by listening to
customers, Innovating, building
organizational strategy and driving
operational efficiencies.
2. Brief us about the Founder/CEO
and the motivation behind choosing
E-learning platform?
Over the past 30 years of our existence,
we have developed a whole body of
experiences, knowledge, tools and
insights that work to bring about
transformation. We see a crying need
for these tools and insights all over the
world.
Using e-learning in a blended way is a
low cost and effective way to share this
knowledge globally and swiftly. We
have also successfully developed ways
to facilitate collaboration between
leaders across geographies, thereby
saving time and money.
The costs involved in e-learning are
relatively lower than face to face
learning. Also, the younger generations
want smaller bite-sized learning inputs
and experiences. Using a blended
approach , with a focus on Action
Learning and Business Impact serves
us well.
3. What are the key points that you
consider while developing the E-
learning content?
Ÿ Deep empathetic listening to the
needs of customers, and what they
consider of value;
Ÿ Clear metrics of Business Impact
agreed with the customer;
Ÿ Being creative, and multi-modal is
our design of the e-learning solution;
Ÿ Designing a continuous journey with
customer rather than a one of
learning event;
Ÿ Focusing on action learning on the
job rather than just theory;
Ÿ Keeping the content simple and
visual;
Ÿ Coaching and mentoring people on
their journey; and Relying on the
resourcefulness of the learner and
Group Genius during the learning
journey.
4. Brief us about the
services that the company
offers.
Pragati Leadership is India’s
Pioneering organization in the
space of Organizational
Transformation and
Leadership Development. We
partner with the leading
organizations across the globe
to offer highly customized
solutions for Collaboration,
Executive Coaching,
Capability building, and
Integrated HR solutions.
We have a highly qualified
team of Consultants,
Facilitators, and Coaches with
valuable hands-on corporate
work experience to draw upon.
Our team includes several
former CXOs and has
conducted thousands of
programs for a varied set of
organizations with many different
challenges in the space of Leadership
Development, Building Collaboration
and Organizational Transformation.
5. What are the challenges in the
Education Sector in India?
Ÿ Being cut off from the reality of life
in India as it is.
Ÿ Focusing too much on theory rather
than application
Ÿ Not drawing upon student’s gifts and
talents
Ÿ Making education top down and
control oriented.
Ÿ Not teaching the fundamental
learning skills like, creativity, design
thinking etc.
Ÿ Not being based on a holistic
understanding of life
Ÿ Not focusing on Character,
Mindfulness, Compassion and
Values.
6. Please share the latest technology
that the company is utilizing to offer
better learning solutions.
The company uses cutting edge Mobile
based learning solutions to address the
needs of a younger workforce. We
also have partners in digital simulation
and gamification to achieve a deeper
learning experience. We bring
engaging content, tailored solutions
and technology together to produce
effective and customized learning
solutions.
7. How does the firm intend to
handle its Societal Responsibility?
Please mention any special charity or
program as such.
Pragati Leadership has NGO ‘Pragati
Foundation’ (PF) as its CSR arm. We
work on the empowerment of youth and
women through the development of
sustainable livelihood. Our larger
vision is good work for all. Over
10,000 underprivileged persons have
passed through the PF experience and
have come out brimming with self-
confidence, joyfulness, empathy, peace
and dignity.
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We are also active partners of Charter for Compassion under which
the initiatives of Poorna Pune (Compassionate Pune), Annadata
Citizens Movement for Save Food and facilitating interaction between
children in Indian and Pakistani schools are all part of our CSR work.
8.What would be your advice for the budding start-ups and
entrepreneurs in the industry?
Ÿ Constantly seek guidance from your deepest core of creativity and
confidence in short and frequent moments of Silence. This will keep
you anchored in an unshakable source of creativity and confidence;
Ÿ Focus, Focus and Focus!! Keep your eyes focused on a few key
objectives. Avoid distractions like Netflix, Facebook etc.;
Ÿ Be focused on Joyful Action Now. Be quick and diligent in your
action responses;
Ÿ Keep learning and innovating all the time. Be a great observer and
copycat;
Ÿ Your business will only good as good as your relationships. Look
after all your relationship including your family; and
Ÿ Take great care of yourself, (physically, emotionally, spiritually)You
are your most important customer!
9. Brief us about the company’s future perspectives
Pragati Leadership is poised for accelerated growth in the future. It
aims to strengthen its solutions by doing primary research, enhancing
technology based solutions, and being closer to its customers. It also will produce customized video solutions for effective
Learning-on-the-Go. We are also investigating how learning can be augmented using Artificial Intelligence (AI.). Digital
assessments to help evaluate leadership performance would be one more growth driver. We will be
Driving this strategy will be a robust Innovation Funnel where a pipeline of clear projects will be moved forward based on
design thinking, frugal innovation, evaluation gates and deep investments in worthwhile projects.
We are confident that given our unique IPR, the creative use of Technology (especially Platforms) and Assessment Tools, we
will be delivering huge value to many of our clients… new and existing ones.
PuneHeadquarter
Organizational Transformation | Leadership and Talent Development |
Collaboration | Executive Coaching | Integrated HR solutions
Segments Handled
Total Content Hours
Quick Facts
Arun Wakhlu
Founder Director
Transformed 120,000+ leaders, through 5250+ programs
BFSI | Manufacturing | IT and ITES | FMCG | Start-Ups and
NextGen Businesses | Others
Mercedes | Tata | HDFC | Bank of America | BMC | Mastek | Others
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E-LEARNING
Trends that Will
Dominate the
2019Year
he usage of E-learning began a couple of decades ago and presently it
Tcomplements & supports Mobile Learning. As the word suggests E
which can either be read as an Employee (in case of a corporate) or
Empowerment (either for Self or for employee), the word takes on to the next
paradigm of ENHANCING one’s own capability through the new buzz word
of Digital. The intent of the organisation is to make employees learn through
the Electronic tools which are readily available in the hands of the employee
andcanbeeasilydigestibleyetleavethetasteofahighimpact.
There has been a steady increase in the adoption of E-learning, Mobile
learning for employee training in the last couple of years. In fact, it is
becoming a significant part of an organisation’s training delivery today. It has
also been able to leverage on the high impact learning formats that make the
learning digestible with immersive approaches. E-learning is synonymous to
online platforms like gamification, videos, interactive videos and mobile
apps for learning to multiply its e-learning impacts.The reason e-learning for
employee training is becoming a "must-have" approach from a "good-to-
have" because of ease of accessibility in the hands of an employee at their
convenience, ease of navigation, comprehensive information tabulated
through links and linking to various modules which make collaborative
learningaboon.
While the formal classroom training can always be a good approach to train
the new recruits who just get inducted into the system as well as vintage staff
for enhancing their cognitive & behavioural skills but as the organisations
take on the bigger objectives wherein the employees also seek the growth
path, enhancing their skills becomes imperative and hence the flexibility to
learn with anytime, anywhere approach and be still on the go. E-learning
breaksthatbarrierandleavesitwithapermanentmark.Evenduring
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Anubha Maurya Walia, Founder Director of Prism World,
Creator of PRISM™ Philosophy carries 18 + years of rich
experience in L&D and Quality. She is training & consulting
corporates & institution and delivers Change Management,
Leadership & Followership, Team Building, Emotional
Intelligence, TQM & Six Sigma programs. The first lady in
India, actively engaged in research work on Followership
and her work has been acknowledged by a host of industry
publications. Recipient of Emerging HRD thinker award
(Gold Medalist) consecutive 3 times has trained 40000+
professionals and consulted in TQM implementation and
Change Engagement & Learning. In her leisure time, she
enjoys travelling & reading, watches movies.
About the Author
classroom training, session by prism philosophy ensures
participants Bring their Own Device (BYOD) as it is
popularly called and it’s just not another fad. On the trainee’
side too, BYOD is a win-win for both personal and
professionally as they don’t have to manage separate devices.
CorporatesshouldfromtheirBYOD policyleadingto:
Cost Reduction: A BYOD policy allows organisations to
drastically cut down on costs of both E-learning or m-
learning. Trainees/employees can use their personal devices
for professional work. The criticality and the success would
be on the basis of the content that is comprehensible and yet
user-friendly and easy to grasp. Important is Content that
should be responsive and able to deliver similar learning
experiences.
Productivity & Satisfaction: Technology familiarity is a
prerequisite to harnessing the maximum potential of
employees through e-learning or m-learning hence using own
deviceleadstosatisfactionandproductivity.
On-The-Go Access: In busy schedules, it’s difficult to take
time out for a training programme. LMS that fits “their”
schedule works best because it allows them to drive their
learning decisions. Employers allow them to access the
courses anytime, anywhere, any location and most
importantly on-the-go (in any transport i.e bus, train, airport).
Since content is also available offline, this flexibility leads to
greaterlearnerengagement.
Collaboration: Because most of the employees’ devices
today are high ended and have multiple applications which
make it possible to assign for projects leading to a minimum
of theturnaroundtimefor theproject.
Here are a set of best practices using prism (prepare, respect,
implement, share and maintain) philosophy that you should
incorporate in your organizational culture while adopting a
BYOD policy:
Prepare: The research says 85% of users access their LMS
fromadesktop,76% fromalaptop,andtooursurprise, only
Trends to Watch
|31| April 2019

9% from a smartphone. We’ve studied that employees prefer to learn from either a desktop or a
laptop, but sometimes mobile learning is their only option. Make your employees prepare by
involving them before the launch of BYOD to understand and willingness. It is important to be
inclusive in your BYOD strategy. This will help to minimise resistance and gain support.
Nowadays Mobile learning / E-learning for employee training is being used to address varied
corporate training needs that include: Induction and orientation, all kind of Soft skills &
Professionaltraining,Product&Salestraining,includingCompliancetraining.
Respect: Know their devices. This is simply to aid instructional designers and the technology
guys to have a better understanding of the kinds of devices that they are going to be designing
for. “Giving flexibility to learners” and “Making them productive” sound too clichéd unless
concrete steps are taken to actually facilitate learning whenever employees want it. Hence we
needtorespecteachother’sgadgetandtimeleadingtoproductivityandbetterlearning.
Implement: As per “Towards Maturity’s InFocus Report: “Mobile Learning at Work”, 47% of
organisations currently use mobile devices in their training programs with 67% of organisations
now offering Mobile Learning. India is picking slowly towards mobile learning. The BYOD
policy works best with a cloud. If an employee can’t go through an E-learning / M-learning
module while travelling or at home, then it’s no fun. Hence, implement and enable location-
basedlearning.
Share: 68% of users while our research with corporates said they have adopted a blended
learning approach to employee training. While using prism philosophy, we too ensure blended
learning as same has been proven to improve learning performance, by increasing flexibility,
and enables anytime anywhere learning to include face to face session which means Mobile
learning / E-learning followed while employees are at home post classroom/face to face session.
It caters to different learning styles (visual, auditory, and written components) and
simultaneously improving people performance. Having so many different learning components
helpskeeplearnersontheirtoes,andhighlyengaged.
Maintain: Put a security system in place as employees’ use personal devices which are
vulnerable to spyware. Enable security by using BI (business intelligence) for monitoring and
detection of devices. You can also implement enterprise mobility management to prevent
unauthorised access, file sharing needs to be secured, and loss prevention technologies to track
sensitive data. With security infrastructure, the management role is key to sensitise employees
to BYOD policy guidelines. Look and demand cooperation in complying with rules and
everydayhandlingof dataon personalhandsets.
Organisation presently focusses on emerging technologies for transforming the Corporate
Learning landscape. But, the most powerful element is not the tech itself, but knowledge of
training subject, with attitudes of the users and the learners. We hope the use of a prism
philosophy (prepare, respect, implement, share and maintain) will bring insight towards BYOD
and should foresee the future. Mobile or e-learning LMS helps in providing a continuous
learning experience. It provides the required training programs or courses offline with face to
face session or classroom session and allowing learners to download content in their respective
devices.An important feature is they can be accessed content/material offline.With high mobile
penetration, where 300 million are connected to the Internet in India, Learning through a M or
E-Learning LMS can truly become the ‘learning’ way of life. With a new-age learners i.e
millennials, technology-driven learning is already taking giant strides that will bring a
qualitativeandquantitativedifferenceincorporatetraining.
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Empowering education with Virtual reality
Designmate
Designmate envisions
empowering the Global
K12 education market
ducation technology and ICT
Ebased learning has
revolutionized the way
students learn nowadays. Designmate
(I) Pvt. Ltd., creates Virtual reality
content of Science and Mathematics
for K12 education. Designmate has
carved a niche in the eLearning
industry by creating world class
educational content using different
education technology like Virtual
reality, Augmented reality, 3D Ebooks
and 3D animations. From being the
developers of Ipad app of the year
‘Froggipedia’, to having a global
presence in more than 30 countries,
Designmate has marked 30 glorious
years in changing the way people
learn.
A Humanitarian Founder
Designmate was Founded by Captain
Kamaljeet Singh Brar and the
company is based out of Ahmedabad.
He served the Indian Army and later in
the year 1988, established a design
studio which dealt with animation,
entertainment and advertisement. He
then shifted base to Ahmedabad with
the studio and thus began the journey
of Designmate.
Creating it differently
A strong workforce of 400 employees
makes Designmate one of the world’s
biggest and oldest organizations
developing 3D educational content.
But what makes this workforce truly
applaud worthy is the fact that a
staggering seventy per cent of its
employees are differently-abled. Capt.
Brar had met a young hearing-impaired
man in Mumbai who was inspired,
zealous and passionate to learn
computers and work in his company
and from there the vision to empower
these people began. This humanistic
policy now serves as a USP for
Designmate.
EUREKA For Every Learner
Designmate’s eLearning software is
called EUREKA and comprises 4700+
topics of Math and Science topics in
3D animated video version. The
software caters to various National as
well as international curriculum.
Eureka has its global footprint by over
thirty countries in the world and over
fifteen thousand schools.
The Offerings
Eureka.in acts as a visual teaching-
learning resource both for a teacher as
well a student. Under the flagship
product Eureka, Designmate has
developed the following products:
Virtual Reality (VR)
Virtual reality is being used in
classrooms to enhance student learning
and engagement. VR has transformed
the way educational content is
delivered; it works on the premise of
creating a virtual world — real or
imagined — and allows users to
interact with it. VR engages the learner
better and makes learning more
dynamic. That allows great degree of
the freedom to the learner while
interacting with the content that
ultimately leads to the student centric
learning. Designmate holds a library of
1400+ VR topics of Science and Math.
“
“
-Captain Kamaljeet Singh Brar
Founder &CMD
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Augmented Reality (AR)
Designmate has created an
AR app for book where
conceptual images can be
mapped with the interactive
models/activity and videos.
The app initializes the
augmentation when the
image in the book is
scanned by the camera of
the device. The 3D model
gets augmented on top of
the textbook where the user
can interact and have real
time experience.
Mono
‘Eureka.in Mono’ caters topics under
the K12 curriculum of Science and
Mathematics across the globe. Each
topic comes with a set of multiple
learning resources as one single
package. These resources consist of 3D
animated videos, 3D simulations, 3D
interactive, quiz, images, text, web-
links, glossary and key-terms etc.
There is also a series of lab
experiments which can be performed
in real time virtual labs. These
meaningful interactions lead to a
comprehensive grip of the topic.
3D Stereo
‘Eureka.in 3D Stereo’ explains several
topics using 3DS animated video,
simulation and are interactive. These
high resolutions stereoscopic
animations create an immersive effect
and keep students engaged and
focused. While playing simulations
students explore complex structures in
3D which adds an element of
excitement to learning. They can rotate
the models 360 degrees as well as
zoom in and zoom out at will. Thus the
learning is acquired through action.
Apps
‘Eureka.in apps’ offer an exciting and
engaging platform to students for
understanding complex concepts of
Science and Mathematics on their
hand-held devices like smartphones
and tablets. These are available on
‘App store’, ‘Google Play’ and
‘Windows store’.
Learning Management System
‘Eureka.in LMS’ software is an
integrated learning platform that offers
a combination of usability
and personalized learning
experience anytime,
anywhere. It includes
features like Dashboard,
Analytics, Content list,
Mind-map, Playlist and
many more. The software’s
singular emphasis is on
expansive learning by
incorporating features like
consistent and proven
evaluation methods,
documentation of
performance, learner-centric programs
and adaptive content besides a plethora
of exciting activities.
Classroom Management System
‘Eureka.in CMS’ software offers
multiple ways for a teacher to bridge
the gap between the computer screen
and those of the students while
integrating relevant technology into
everyday instruction. It helps them
grasp concepts more quickly and retain
them better over time. This unique
software allows teachers to multitask
and interact with them screen-to-screen
as a group or one-on-one. It helps
teachers to supervise students’ activity
in real time, providing individual help
as and when required.
Headquarter Ahmedabad
K12 Education – Science and Mathematics
Education/Schools/Students/CSR
300 hours
Segments Handled
Total Content Hours
Quick Facts
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E-Learning TrendsE-Learning TrendsE-Learning Trends
ininin
20192019The Pathway to Future
ith the advancement in technology, traditional learning methodologies have taken a back seat
Was tech-driven innovative learning platforms are transforming the canvas of learning. The
advent of the E-Learning system or the LMS (Learning Management Systems) as it’s often
called as, has opened a plethora of diverse opportunities. Today this segment is reckoned as a matured
industry.
E-learning is one of the best examples as to how technology is bridging the geographical and cultural
diversities across the globe. Tools such as webinars, video & audio sessions, slideshows, chat and more
have given the learners a chance to evenly balance their daily life as per the availability and convenience.
One of the most important reasons for the success of e-learning modules is the fact that data is updated
every moment and hence you are always at par with study materials and information. Standing tall against
the traditional thought of learning, e-learning is also favored as it is much faster, agile, cheaper, and oﬀers
unlimitedinformationfor thelearners.
While software like Flash and MS PowerPoint oﬀer slick presentations, word processing packages and
HTMLeditors help to design engaging web pages, without much complexity. CMS (Content Management
Services) is another platform that is highly used to course the contents, results, and database. With each
passing year, as upcoming trends and practices pave in and outcast previous innovations, this sector is set
on the right trajectory of growth. Trends like Micro-learning, blended learning, social and collaborative
learningarethetalkofthetownandhavegrabbedtheattentioninrecenttimes.
Let’s dive in deep waters and explore how various technologies are steering the growth path that
ultimatelyishelpingtocreatenew avenuesattheglobalplatform.
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With all these solutions enabling a
customer-centric platform that offers
aninnovativeway oflearning,
E-learning is definitely emerged as
the most operative way of learning
andprovidingqualityeducation.
Virtual Reality / AI:
If it's about technology, VR has
emerged as one of the core
components that have outshined
other elements. Combining the
social aspects of traditional
classrooms with the digital world,
countless organizations are
embracing popular virtual training
coaches like chatbots and avatars
along with virtual platforms. While
Chatbots can assist in providing
information regarding the new
courses on the anvil based on the
requirement posted by a user, AI
offers automated answers, quiz
results, and much more!
Mobile & App learning:
The internet has placed the world
in our palms! With smart devices
and phones, anyone is able to
access training modules, contents,
webinar, video sessions and much
more. Also, mobile applications
related to the learning domain are
becoming a huge success as it
gives you the liberty to access and
learn from the comforts of your
home. Also, parents have the
'super-power' to control the access
along with monitoring the
performance of their children
through the learning apps.
Video-based learning:
For generation Nxt, video-based
learning is one of the easiest and
preferred modes of learning. Over
the last few years, there has been
an exponential rise in educational
videos as it is cost-effective, has a
target-based audience, and the
potential to reach out to any
remote corner of the world. The
u s e o f a d v a n c e d t r a i n i n g
technologies and tools are
assisting organizations to design
cost-effective training programs
that have a larger reach as
c o m p a re d t o t h e s e t u p o f
traditional coaching camps.
Big Data: As the global
c o m m u n i t y c o n t i n u e s t o
embrace digital learning, a huge
amount of data is generated that
carries the potential to analyze
the learning patterns, behaviors,
a n d re q u i re m e n t s o f t h e
learners. Learning analytical
tools are generating customized
data that are further used in real-
time; also the concept of
personalized learning gets hold
of more ground by the help of big
data.
Flat Contents are a
thing of past: The
advent of visually-rich and
engaging training contents has
been appreciated at all levels
and are the next best tool for
training purposes. VILT (Virtual
Instructor-Led Training) has
taken over the ILT concept and
viewing plain documents, pdf,
or even slides have become
outdated.
-Devasish Kanojiya
Writer
Writer’s Column
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nggenious is tech-enabled
Elearning solutions arm of SAN
Techno Mentors Pvt Ltd.
Founded in 2006, SAN Techno
Mentors Pvt. Ltd. (STMPL) has been
providing conventional classroom
training and mentoring to the
engineering and manufacturing
companies. Its years of association
with large Indian and foreign
corporates have rendered it ably
equipped with the know-how of
designing learning solutions for
manufacturing professionals. These
professionals range from fresh
graduate engineering trainees to senior,
mid or senior engineers, managers and
leaders.
A part of SAN Group, STMPL was
founded and is managed by a group of
IIT & COEP alumnus with long years
of professional experience in diverse
industry verticals. SAN Group,
established in 1990, has 6 companies
in product design, manufacturing &
turnkey projects in electronics, IoT &
data connectivity, security systems and
power electronics domains.
STMPL’s team comprises of over sixty
ex-IITs, ex-COEP, ex-IISc subject
matter experts each with average 30
plus years of experience in industry &
academia, digital media, instructional
designing and development.
Specific Solutions for Manufacturing
Enggenious designs and delivers high
quality technology-enabled learning
solutions for engineering and
manufacturing domains. Enggenious
creates meaningfully engaging and
lasting learning experiences which are
beyond books and theories. It makes
interactive, engaging and highly
effective eLearning & blended learning
courses.
Domain Expert Founders
Sudhir Panditrao, Director and CEO
of SAN Techno Mentors has always
been a passionate trainer with an
industry & academia experience of
over 32 years. COEP alumni, he brings
in a vast experience and techno-
commercial acumen.
Mangesh Wagh, Co-founder of
Enggenious business unit, comes from
digital technology and media
profession with experience of over 16
years. Digital technologies as content
development and delivery platforms
and digital media expertise – that’s
what Mangesh brings in.
Engaging Content
ELearning, the need of the hour, has
several generic benefits like:
Ÿ Significantly low logistical
overheads and hence the lower costs,
Ÿ A better speed of training initiatives,
Ÿ Ease of tracking
Ÿ Self-paced and available 24x7
And more
One of the major turn-ons for
Enggenious to explore the eLearning
sector has been creative visualization
aspect. The core eLearning quality
comes from there, is what they think.
For the learner to gain complete clarity
on technological/ technical concepts or
aspects, content needs to be built with
excellent creative visualization. And
while developing these crafted
contents, some of the key points the
team considers are:
Ÿ Learner centricity
ENGGENIOUS
Well Crafted
Learning Solutions
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Sudhir Panditrao
Director & CEO
After going through
our courses when
the learner says,
‘never thought
it was that easy’…
that’s the kick
we live for
Ÿ Business goals of the learners’
organization
Ÿ Outcome orientation and clarity of
learning objective
Ÿ Attention span possibilities
Ÿ Joy of learning
Ÿ Knowledge retention
The contents have been designed using
internationally renowned content
development models.
Extensive Services
Enggenious’ services mainly include
training, mentoring and consultancy.
Complex technical subjects are dealt
with blended learning. It designs a mix
of learning methods based on user
requirement. Its services include:
Ÿ Off-the-shelf eLearning courses –
online subscription or package
buying
Ÿ Custom developed eLearning and
microlearning courses
Ÿ Innovative blended learning courses;
pre-packaged and custom
Ÿ LMS based competency assessment
solutions; pre-packaged and custom
These effective services are backed by
the latest technology. To make its
solutions better and more focused,
STMPL uses technology in many
ways:
Ÿ Remote triggered labs for blended
delivery courses
Ÿ Gamification, platforms for
Gamification
Ÿ Well-equipped LMS platforms
Ÿ Advanced authoring tools for rapid
content development
Ÿ Building virtual reality (VR)
capabilities
Bridging a Wide Gap
The biggest challenge right now, the
company opines, is the gap between
industry requirement and the education
being imparted.
The major difference is that the
academics is more oriented towards
theory and academic concepts. The
industry is more focused on application
of the theory and has to abide by
international standards & codes, safety
and reliability, and industry practices.
This is where the gap is.
The industry has always been vocal
about the gap between their
expectations and knowledge & skills
which fresh graduates or post-
graduates possess. In academics and
industry, the major challenges are
employability of students and then the
deployability of the hired workforce. In
the modern industrial era, the need for
multi-skilling is also prominent. The
industry is investing heavily into
employability, deployability and multi-
skilling of people. Returns on those
investments continue to be a point of
concern.
A Message for the Neophytes
The founders have a crisp and clear
message to share with the budding
entrepreneurs. They say, “If you are
sure that your start-up idea is about
creating value, pursue that. Don’t get
distracted for small revenue gains by
defocusing your large value creation
goals.”
Foraying into Future
For Enggenious, the journey has only
begun. It is looking forward to creating
an unseen value proposition for
engineering and manufacturing
domains. Not just learning solutions
partner but a learning culture partner
for manufacturing companies,
individual professionals and even for
the students preparing themselves for a
profession in the engineering fields. It
will impact top lines, bottom lines of
the companies with well researched
and awesomely built learning offering.
One obvious feature would be the use
of the latest technology and tools to
enhance learners’ experience and
retention of knowledge. Continuous
innovations on fronts of instructional
design, delivery, assessments and other
aspects of learning – that’s assured.
The company is set to keep creating
and maximizing the joy of learning.
‘‘
Mangesh Wagh
Co-founder
‘‘
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MANIPAL
PROLEARN
Leading Professional Learning Company
Manipal ProLearn
helps individuals
and corporates
upskill in
emerging future
skills in sought-
after domains
“
“
Manipal ProLearn is a part
of Manipal Global
Education Services
(MaGE) which is a part of the Manipal
Education and Medical Group. With a
rich legacy in the educational sphere,
Manipal ProLearn offers a wide variety
of professional learning programs that
have been offering desired learning
outcomes to its learners. The ever-
increasing discussions on
unemployability, the inability of formal
education structure to service the
quality and quantity demands of
education in the country, industry’s
constant push for skilling / upskilling
prompted the organization to consider
developing a business that will address
the above needs.
The Foundation
Formed in 2014, Manipal ProLearn
started as an organization offering
online learning programs, the most
popular one being the Digital
Marketing Program. It developed and
partnered with industry to offer
professional learning programs in the
space of Digital Marketing, Finance,
Project Management, Technology, etc.
Through the amalgamation of multiple
businesses within Manipal Global, the
integrated Manipal ProLearn acquired
the ability to offer high-end technology
and management programs across the
enterprise and consumer businesses.
Manipal ProLearn today has over 30
large enterprise customers in addition
to its consumer learning business.
A Renowned Leader
MaGE is currently headed by Ravi
Panchanadan, the CEO and MD. His
role includes managing all business
units and enabling functions at MaGE.
With years of experience, he brings in
a thorough understanding of best
practices and latest technology trends.
This helps the Group to expand the
existing businesses and develop new
engines of growth in the national and
international markets.
Developing Quality Content
Manipal ProLearn keeps special focus
on the following while developing the
e-content for learners:
Ÿ The programs should focus on skill
development
Ÿ Skills identified must be sought-after
in the industry
Ÿ Programs are relevant for entry-
level, mid-career professionals as
well as the Leadership
Ÿ These requirements are addressed for
individuals wanting to upskill
themselves or organizations that feel
that its employees need upskilling
Ÿ Programs have to be delivered online
or face to face to manage scale and
quality
The design of Manipal ProLearn
courses includes short term skill
building programs as well as long term
university award programs in future
skills. Many of these programs also
result in our learners getting jobs or
career growth at the end of it.
Manipal ProLearn’s offerings address
the learning needs of individuals and
enterprises. It covers area like
Information Technology, Data Science,
Digital Marketing, Finance,
Management and Leadership. It also
addresses the spread of employee
lifecycle from entry-level to mid-level
to leadership. These services are
Ravi Panchanadan
CEO & MD, MaGE
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offered online, in
blended mode or
in the classroom at
its Academy or in
client locations.
Education and
Challenges
Indian Education
sector grapples
with the following
challenges:
Ÿ Ability to
manage scale –
the traditional
brick and mortar
education
system will not be able to cater to the
quantity needs of Indian learners.
Ÿ Relevance – the academic system is
not able to cater to the dynamics of
the industry. Many courses offered in
the education system focus on
knowledge and not on skills. In
addition to this, they trail the
industry in the relevance of courses
offered.
To tackle these challenges it is
imperative that new ideas be brought
on board through new companies and
start-ups. Sharing its views on the
same, the company believes, “It is
important for start-ups and
entrepreneurs to stay committed to
solving industry and societal problems
through their ventures. There are many
of these that can impact society
positively. Education is one such area
where there is a genuine problem
impacting the lives of individuals in
particular and society in general.”
Leading with Technology
Most of the courses offered by Manipal
ProLearn include the use of a robust
Learning Management System (LMS)
that can be accessed on
computers/laptops or mobiles. This
makes learning convenient for learners
while increasing its effectiveness. This
technology-based LMS is designed to
improve the learning experience as
well as prompt for improved learning
outcomes and course competition rates.
The technology platform allows
learners to learn through simulations,
gamification, peer and social learning.
The platform also allows synchronous
as well as asynchronous online
instructor-led learning. There are
discussion boards that allow for greater
engagement among learners as well as
learner and instructor.
Education, Human Capital
Management
BangaloreHeadquarter
Segments Handled
Education, Human ResourcesProminent Industry Verticals
Most Prominent Clients Dell EMC, IBM, Aditya Birla Group, Atos India,
Capgemini, Visteon, ANZ, Fractal Analytics,
GE Healthcare, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, and
many more
Quick Facts
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EEE---LLLEEEAAARRRNNNIIINNNGGGLearning Without Limitations
earning is an essential part of every living being’s life. For humans, it becomes all the more important. Learning helps
Lus grow, socialise, take up a job, earn, and survive. Those who are unable to go through this process of learning are
often at a disadvantage which can range from social issues to financial problems and others. While there are many
reasons for this lack of learning, one of them, which is often misunderstood is Learning Disability.
Understanding Learning Disability
Health, as per the World Health Organisation, is ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being’. A lag in any one aspect is
hence considered unhealthy. Learning Disability is one such health issue for starters. Often neglected, or denied its presence,
this issue is now a major focal point for educational institutions and social equality advocates alike.
Learning Disability, in general, is a term that describes specific kinds of learning issues or problems. It can cause a person to
have problems in learning and using certain skills. The skills which are most often affected are:
· Reading
· Speaking
· Writing
· Reasoning
· Listening
· Mathematics
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The degree of learning disability varies from one person to another. While some people suffer from one disability, few others
still suffer from multiple disabilities.
While the above are the skills that are hampered due to a learning disability, disability of the physical or mental kind can also
contribute to a person’s learning disability. Such disabilities are:
· Visual disabilities
· hearing impairments
· Physical disabilities
· Speech disabilities
· Cognitive and neurological disabilities
· Multiple disabilities
· Aging-related conditions and
· Mental disability
These disabilities of a varying degree hamper a person’s prospects to learn in different ways.
The Current Problem
The problem with the current learning system is that it considers everyone the same. It doesn’t take into account the choices,
conditions, situations and preferences of individuals. No matter who one is, what one does, what background one has, what
issues one has to deal with, learning centres operate in a similar and set way. It doesn’t, in general, provide with a flexible
approach. So an autistic child is treated and has to learn in the same way that a non-autistic child would study. And if one
does need special attention, the only option is a special school catering to similar children. While this makes them learned, it
also, at the same time instils every idea of them being different and special. So they grow up with a feeling that they are
different from others, need special care, and often find themselves at a receiving end. Social equality goes for a toss here.
E-Learning- Lending a Supporting
Hand
E-Learning is helping break many barriers
in learning for the disabled. Education has
had a makeover with e-learning.
Technology has made learning more
varied and palatable for everyone. E-
Learning is now becoming a preferred
mode of learning and education for its
following properties:
Breaking Time Barrier – E-Learning lets
students learn at own pace. Moreover,
they can start and enjoy the process
anytime they wish. So a student with
ADHD who finds it hard to concentrate
for a 45-minute classroom session can
easily break up an e-learning session at
own attention span.
Learning Mode
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Breaking Distance and Space Barrier – There are no set structures where one must visit for access to learning material or
educators. The content is spread all over the world when it comes to e-learning. This, at the same time, is accessible to
everyone, everywhere.
Breaking Analog and Digital Barrier – Digital content is far more interesting and appealing than old school texts. A learner
can learn a topic using a video which is supported by suitable audio, animation, text, images and some interactive elements. It
becomes so easy to put a video on repeat than to ask a teacher to stall and start over just for one student.
Breaking Stereotypes -- One size fits all is the biggest stereotype in education. One course design or method of teaching is
not suitable for everyone and the world now agrees to it. E-learning content can be easily modified and personalized to suit
the needs of special students.
Solutions for Everyone
Technology is helping e-learning to overcome different types of disabilities in different ways. Such individual advancements
or a combination of few is making people with different disabilities find their own way to learn. Some of the major advantage
points are:
For Visual disabilities – Great Audio, Braille keyboards, voice-to-text software are few ways in which e-learning is making
them overcome the visual challenges.
Hearing impairments -- Video lectures are available with sub-titles and interactive elements let them raise question and learn
more beneficially.
Physical disabilities – Physical or mobility impaired students find it easier to learn from their own home or any other
comfortable place of their choice. Live streaming of lectures, multiple classes at the same time are just a few advantages for
them.
Cognitive and neurological disabilities – Such students gain an advantage using e-learning technology such as touch screens,
trackers that track the head and eye movement of students to understand what they are reading and other augmentative and
alternative communication methods.
E-Learning and its assistive technologies are helping bridge the learning gap. Disability of any kind shouldn’t serve as a
reason for a person to not learn. Technology is for humankind and for its development. The need of the hour is to adapt the
eLearning technologies and that too wisely. What is aimed at bridging the divide shouldn’t work to dilate it. The focus should
be on equal opportunity to learn, which is every individual's right.
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-Sneha Sinha

MemcorpImmerMemcorpImmerPlay, Learn,
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rsivesiveRepeat
In a quest to make learning interactive, immersive and lasting, Memcorp Immersive
has been turning textual and lacklustre training content into interesting games.
Gamifying training, they believe, engages and enthralls participants and they come out
of the sessions absorbing more than they can think of.
In the following Interview with Insights Success, Shashwat Dhuliya, Creative Designer
at Memcorp takes us on a journey into the world that is making training sessions
interesting, immersive and something to look forward to.
1. Kindly brief us about your company and its initial journey.
In our crusade of building learning interventions that create the change we’ve tried just
about everything. From running classroom training session using PPTs to making
learning more experiential where people learn by doing. But in the process, we
realized that the learning wasn’t creating a lasting change within the people. And after
asking a few simple but right questions, we learned that our predicament was not
because the learning programs didn’t have the right content. Our predicament was a
result of the learning not being authentic. It wasn’t inside-out. So we had to create
learning which would be authentic. “But how?” we asked ourselves and our clients.
Fortunately, we have a great support system because of which we found our answer in
Immersive Learning. After years of hustling, we created a real life-like environment
(taking into consideration all aspects of life), put people in it and allow them to make
choices based on their understanding of the situation. And then create a safe place for
them to discuss the reasoning behind their actions. This way the learning is owned by
the learners and thus applicable.
2. Brief us about the Founder/CEO and the motivation behind choosing E-learning
platform?
Mohsin Memon is the CEO of Memcorp Immersive who works with a group of
passionate people that build games for learning. Mohsin is not originally from the
learning industry, he switched careers 8 years ago from IT where he was a Project
Manager at a Fortune 500 company. In the past 5 years he has extensively used games
to impact lives. He believes people learn best when they play and he dreams of a
world in which student go to school not to study or learn but to play; a world where
learning happens as a by-product of experience.
When he’s not working, you can find Mohsin either playing board games, video
games, trekking, surfing or doing his favourite thing of all- snowboarding in the
Himalayan Mountains. Mohsin has been recognized as one of the few young minds
that have been able to merge the world of games with learning. He’s been invited to
speak at NASSCOM, spoken at 5 TEDx events.
3. What are the key points that you consider while developing the E-learning
content?
Our games don’t provide content. Instead it’s a platform where people can consume
their own content while playing the game. The principle of game theory, gamification
and instructional design makes the consumption of the content more effective which
leads to higher retention and engagement rate. Games when linked with content are a
powerful motivator for the content's consumption. In the future, we plan to build
premade content which people can consume at own pace.
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4. Brief us about the services that the company offers.
In order to talk about services that we render today it is
important to understand the services we delivered in
the past that brought us where we are today. About 7
years ago we began our services journey with doing
run-of the mill training programs such as decision
making, problem solving and communication trainings.
Over the years we have recognized that the belief of
Memcorp Immersive is to make it fun, make it
engaging, make it a game! When we conducted these
programs, we found our advantage in delivering the
programs in a really fun and engaging way so we chose
to do away with PPT’s. Our programs were off the cuff
using a lot of human interaction activities and a lot of
involvement from the participants and getting them to
participate in the entire learning process. We took up a
project with one our clients because there was a gap in
the communication between the sales team and the
managers. This whole ecosystem was simulated in a 3
hour process throwing in new and different challenges
in each iteration. We wanted to do something different
than a regular classroom training, something more
engaging and exciting and most importantly fun for
everyone because this was the very first game we ever
built.
In 2015 we had a keystone opportunity with another
client and the management of the team needed a game
to develop awareness of collaboration amongst one
another. Our services today span from dealing with
Vuca, Strategic thinking, Strategic Execution, Project
Management, Communication and Collaboration. The
most unique thing about what we do in our services is
not the topic of the service but the methodology and the
way in which we deliver the service and the way we do
that is through games. Imagine playing a game and by
virtue of playing this game you learn important
business and leadership skills that have an impact of
how you deal with situations in the real world. We try
to achieve our services by doing something unique,
different, and meaningful for the participants and the
users who experience our games.
5. What are the challenges in the Education Sector in
India?
20 years from now, anything that’s being taught in
schools will be irrelevant. It’s important to understand
that needs are changing with time. What was important
10 years ago may not be relevant anymore. The gap
between education and industry requirement is
growing which is leading to disguised unemployment
due to lack of skills. Less emphasis on skills like
personality, innovation or creativity is a big problem.
Since a child’s value is determined by his/her results
and degrees, character building gets lost in the process.
Parents and teachers fail to realize that the upcoming
job requires strong soft skills along with innovation
and creativity. The quality of teachers is a major issue.
Schools need teachers who not only teach but inspire
students to learn and bring out the creativity in them.
This problem is further fuelled by parents who just
want their kids to have a secure and safe job. Lack of
technology and poor infrastructures are one of the
biggest challenges that schools face in India. The
education system needs to open to change.
6. Please share the latest technology that the company
is utilizing to offer better learning solutions.
There are a number of technologies that we use. We
started off using virtual reality, along the way we
realized that we needed something that blended virtual,
augmented and physical reality. Our games have been
developed using react, ruby on rails and node.js. From
the front-end standpoint, we use ember j.s but are soon
migrating to technologies that are more robust and
versatile in nature as the use of mobile is increasing
and we recognize that we need technologies that are
more universal in terms of where they can be applied
and used. We have created a semi-virtual reality
experience focusing more on human interaction during
gameplay because we didn't want to lose sight of the
human element. Today we use technology to enable that
classroom learning experience on a mobile device but
it all started with doing traditional training programs
in a unique and fun way.
7. How does the firm intend to handle its Societal
Responsibility? Please mention any special charity
or program as such.
We have been empowering change in the educational
system by turning the process of learning important
skills into a game. Until now we have conducted
various gamification sessions in universities and
schools to bring awareness about the new learning
techniques. Our CEO has given several TEDx talks in
universities which talks about how gaming can be the
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next big shift in the education system. Besides our motto,
we love seeing people smile and putting forward a helping
hand wherever we can. Instead of celebrating each other’s
birthday, this year all the members have mutually decided
to provide food for the needy instead of gifting each other
on their birthdays.
8. What would be your advice for the budding start-
ups and entrepreneurs in the industry?
Entrepreneurship is challenging. Most people want to
follow the trend of entrepreneurship, only a few believe
in their idea. So before you take the path, make sure if
it's what you want to do. The learning industry has
picked up pace and it’s not long before it gets
concentrated. The only way to stay on top is
innovation. No company can keep doing great work if
they stop innovating new techniques. It's important to
understand the trend and keep up with it. Some of the
techniques that will thrive in the coming years:
Micro-learning: The attention span of people has
drastically reduced over the years. Micro learning
solves this problem by delivering content when it’s
required in small bite size learning.
Immersive Learning: As compared to the traditional
format of learning where you download information,
immersive learning is about experience. As opposed to
directive learning, immersive learning is about
facilitative learning. It's an environment where people
have realizations and these lead to real change in
behavior and habit. Everything that you go through is
immersive learning. It’s when you detach these
experiences from learning, it becomes superﬁcial.
Gamiﬁcation: It is going to be most accepted change in
the learning industry. The game element engages
learners, something that most learning programs fail in
today's world. As compared to other modes of learning
games result in highest recalling value. So games when
linked with content become powerful motivator for the
content's consumption.
9. Brief us about the company’s future perspectives.
We need to constantly learn in order to deal with the
rapidly changing work landscape. The current learning
tools are not engaging enough and don’t hold the
attention span of busy professionals. We want to make
trainings fun and engaging while adding value to it. We
have been into servicing clients using the games we
had designed. Going forward we plan to make the tools
available for trainers and facilitators to gamify their
learning interventions. Memcorp also has plans to
build a market place to host plethora of games for
various competencies and also develop content for the
training fraternity so people can plug and play these
games to build more engagement and counter the
requirement of learning stickiness required by the
corporates.
Mumbai, IndiaHeadquarter
eLearning Services & Training Services.Segments Handled
Quick Facts
Learning Industry; Ed-Tech IndustryProminent Industry Verticals
Reliance, Air Asia, Motorola, Dell,
Flipkart, L&T, Crisil.Most Prominent Clients
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VIRTUAL CLASSROOM
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Virtual Learning
Ashwini Purohit, a tech-enthusiastic person
currently working in ed-tech Industry is the Co-
Founder of Winuall. It is a growing online platform
that helps institutions and people preparing for
examinations. He graduated from VITVellore and has
been awarded Special Achievers award twice.
Passionate about developer communities, he has lead
communities like Developer Circles from Facebook,
GoogleDeveloperGroups,DockerCommunity.
Avirtual classroom is essentially teaching without the
teacher, an interaction between student and the
teacher, via means of online technology interfaces
such as massive open online courses in the form of online
video broadcasting, notes, lectures, examinations etc., but
virtual classrooms also pose various difficulties to their
students. This little snippet written below tries to discuss the
various limitations of these classrooms along with their
impact on the students learning process and their
development in real life. Virtual classrooms, although they
may sound modern and revolutionary, still pose students with
many problems in the process of learning or attending. Some
of these problems are no face to face interaction, availability
of resources or rather a lack of resources, authenticity of
course and certificate malpractices, time limits etc. Students
taking part in virtual classroom may not actually be gaining
any knowledge, especially high school or college students
who do these courses for extra marks and don’t actually pay
attention. More over with lack of resources practical
knowledge is not achievable. This article aims to bring out all
the disadvantages and problems that students face while
engaging in a virtual classroom so that it could help other
students willing to take such course a prior general idea about
them.
A virtual classroom in an e-learning platform is an educating
and learning condition where members can collaborate,
convey, see and talk about introductions, and draw in with
learning assets while working in gatherings, all in a web-
based setting.Avirtual classroom is likewise now known as a
virtual learning environment. A classroom or class does not
generally require a functioning educator to manage
understudies; in this setting, they can continue at their very
own pace.
There are diverse kinds of virtual classrooms, one sort is the
unsupervised virtual classroom where there are instant
learning materials that the understudy can pursue with the
assistance of a mentor. This makes YouTube the most
broadly utilized virtual classroom. Another sort of the
virtual classroom is the mentor driven classroom. This
affirms to a progressively customary classroom definition,
where the exercise is completed continuously at a particular
time and date. Here understudies and coaches can
communicateandeffectivelytakepart.
Thereareafew pointsofinteresttoavirtualclass:
1. Students are not constrained to the courses accessible
intheirgeography.
2. Learning is increasingly intelligent as its inclination
powers theunderstudy’s consideration.
3.Access to coursework from anyplace whenever one
requires.
4. Immediatecriticismon tests.
5. While expanding your insight and aptitudes in your
general vicinity of study, you’ll additionally be
sharpening your advanced abilities on the most complex
internetlearninginnovation.
Maybeacoupleof itsdrawbacksare:
1. In the instance of directed classes, the date and time
mightbeanissue toafew understudies.
2. It is constrained by the mechanical limit of the
understudy; those with slower equipment or
Internetspeeds
areoff guard.
Virtual classrooms stand ready to change the manner in
whichpeopleandinstructiveestablishmentsgoabout
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substance conveyance. With the supported intrigue shown by tech designers and partners alike, it is not long from now that
virtualclassroomswould bethestandardfor overallsubstanceconveyance.
Getting deeper in to the topic, Virtual classroom has various definitions with its learning techniques continuously
implementing new methods to provide hassle free education. While several University professors may approve of this method
asbeneficialfor itsstudentstoexpandtheirknowledgeontheirown, itisalsoopposed by many.
A professor from University of Sharjah, in 2015, states that online education had helped in bringing knowledge to people’s
door stop, as for many that education may not be available in their native place. In modern age students prefer learning through
digital media. But the technology used must be well maintained and managed as it is very important to provide good education
andalsothatpeopletakeitseriously.
Meanwhile Debra Sharon of University of the West Indies had two views on this matter. One was as a graduate assistant where
she found that students under her who took online courses seemed to be overloaded from work. Due to this they become
uninterested to learn anything new and read only materials require to get minimum marks and qualify. Many times, the
instructorcreatingtheplatformcouldn’tutilizeittothefullestmakingthesecourses difficulttogainknowledgefrom.
The other one was as a graduate level student where she had most of the course online oriented which was a much better
method of engaging and felt that she learned much more from the course, and finally concluded that it depends on the course
instructortodeterminethecourse’s working.
In this manner several professors from across the globe had both positive and negative views on the digitized method of
learning about how it was either easy to access and available at doorstep or just a method of making money with no actual
guaranteeofstudentsincreaseinknowledge.
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rime Meridian Consulting India Private Limited
Pis a company with a firm belief in “building leaders
everywhere”. It helps people to perform at world-
class levels and at every level in an organisation. It is an
end-to-end leadership development and human
transformation consulting services company that provides
coaching, training and consulting interventions to corporate
bodies and academic institutions. Its facilitators have
delivered programs to the workforce of many large and
medium corporations like Capgemini, IBM, JP Morgan,
PwC, Saint Gobain, Jubilant Life Sciences, Royal Enfield,
Aditya Birla Group, Akzo Nobel, Advisory Board, British
Gas, Broadcom, and Sri Lanka Telecom among many other
companies.
Its programs provide a right blend of theory and practice,
stemming from the ideology of building on practical skills
with a solid foundation of theory. These programs help to
harness the latent talent within the organization to meet the
organizational goals. The company works in partnership
with many leading Motivational Leaders and International
Research-based Organizations. All these are aimed at
honing the leadership skills and building leaders that
inspire.
An Esteemed Leader
Colonel (Veteran) Pavan Bakshi is the CEO, Chief
Facilitator and Executive Coach at Prime Meridian
Consulting. He has an experience of 34 years and wide
expertise in the domain of leadership transformation. A
certified facilitator from the Army War College and Military
College of Telecom Engineering, he has been a trainer at
the prestigious Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. An
alumnus of Defence Services Staff College, he has been
involved in handling various national level crisis
interventions, during his 22 years long career with the
Indian Army. In corporate life, he has worked in both Indian
and multinational organizations at distinct leadership
positions. He has been instrumental in the areas of business
growth, managing transition, merger and acquisitions and in
establishing and managing new business streams. Pavan
specialises in conducting leadership transformation
initiatives within organisations, in the field of performance,
growth, leadership, transition and change management. His
coaching experience (1000+ hours) spans from coaching
senior executives in leadership positions in multinational
companies to large Indian corporate organisations.
Let Leadership FLOW
Flow Promoting Leadership (FPL) is an award-winning
online Leadership Development Simulation, promoted in
India by Prime Meridian. It is an online Leadership
Simulation, Assessment and Blended Learning program.
FLIGBY (FLOW is Good Business For You) is the official
Flow-program for decision-makers by Professor Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi and ALEAS Simulations. FLIGBY’s
leadership development program combines a video-game
learning experience with sophisticated, benchmark-based
competence assessment.
Professor Csikszentmihalyi is regarded as one of the
greatest psychologists of this age. He earned his fame by
defining and providing a detailed description of the Flow
Prime Meridian
Consulting
We Build Leaders
Everywhere
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If there is Flow in your business,
employees perform at their peak
and work becomes a source of
enjoyment and personal growth
“
“
Pavan Bakshi
CEO, Chief Facilitator &
Executive Coach

state. He has been seeking the answer
to the great question of our everyday
life: finding happiness.
“Work can be one of the most joyful,
most fulfilling aspects of life. Whether
it will be or not depends on the actions
we actually collectively take”, says the
Professor.
FLIGBY aims to successfully apply
this concept to the organizations.
The Leadership Game
FLIGBY’s leadership development
program combines video-game
learning experience with sophisticated,
benchmark-based competence
assessment.
“FLIGBY” simulation informs and
gives examples to managers/leaders
how effectively to create an
environment in which Flow can
flourish. The purpose of this simulation
is to teach the application of Flow-
based leadership skills. The user or
player, in this case, a leader, is
measured for his/her 29 leadership
skills. In the simulation, they are the
GM of legacy business and must take
everyday decisions to turn the business
profitable and a great place to work for.
A player will identify leadership skills
that are critical for helping to generate
and maintain FLOW within
organizations. The challenge is to
achieve a state of harmony and
cooperation in a team significantly
weakened by internal conflicts due to
the dysfunctional leadership style of a
previous GM. The
leader is assessed on
the following skills:
Ÿ Leading Change
Ÿ Leading People
Ÿ Result Driven
Ÿ Business Acumen
Ÿ Building Collations
By using a blended
learning approach
participant achieve the
following learning
objectives:
Ÿ Understanding Flow principles and
the added value of Flow in business
and corporate environment;
Ÿ Creating a blueprint for Flow in
good business through the
application of an inspiring vision,
mission statement and attractive
goals that are good both materially
and spiritually;
Ÿ Understanding and learning
visionary leader characteristics;
Ÿ Active participation in the Flow-
based change management
processes;
Ÿ Using leadership techniques to
enhance Flow (successful
management styles and techniques).
The Partnership
Prime Meridian has exclusively
partnered with and brought FPL to
India. “FLOW is Good Business™”
(FLIGBY®) Leadership Development
Simulation won the Gold Medal of the
“International Serious Play Awards” in
the category of Corporate Games in
August 2012 in Seattle.
Evolving
Leadership
through FLOW
Prime Meridian
believes that
leadership today is
more than running a
large organization.
In the new-age
complex network
society, leadership
requires the
provision of expertise, credibility, and
trust. Leadership in this newer world
means confident, value-based decision-
making and acceptance of its
consequences. The Flow process
identifies the factors crucial to the
operation of a successful but
sustainable business: trust. It is
committed to fostering the personal
growth of employees, and the
dedication to creating a product/service
that helps mankind.
Prime Meridian is here to provide the
Power of Flow in India. A Flow-based
organization promotes employee
engagement and positive attitudes in
the workplace. The most important
distinguishing trait of visionary leaders
is that they believe in a goal that
benefits not only themselves but others
as well. Though FLIGBY’s intricately
designed simulation game and
workshops, leaders today are realizing
the ultimate goal of a human being:
Happiness.
Innovative use of E-learning in
Blended Workshops
In its workshop, Prime Meridian
Consulting uses the blended learning
approach. The pre and post workshop
e-leaning has the following modular
components:
Ÿ Easy access to review the learnings
of the workshop through video’s and
slides & pre-recorded and live
webinars
Ÿ Apply and documenting on-the job
application of the learnings through
a mobile app.
Ÿ Measure growth and change in
graphical formats.
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Miracle
Corporate
Delivering Solutions for Digital Agility
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With a vision to help customers achieve their
business objectives by providing innovative,
best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and
services, Miracle Corporate Solutions Pvt. Ltd. has been
deﬁning new modes of knowledge sharing. Its core areas of
focus include security systems, client server technology,
web based applications and biometric solutions.
In the following Interview with Insights Success, Anupam
Srivastav, Founder, shares how Miracle has been creating a
pool of experts and skilled resources in the ﬁeld of IT and
cutting edge technologies.
1. Kindly brief us about company and its initialyour
journey.
We started as a Technology Training company since
2005 and quickly grew one of the biggest training
company, trained more than 40k F2F trainings.
Soon we realized, that we need to consolidate and
adopted Technology to impart trainings. We became
backend partners to Educomp in online LMS solution
and to enable the backend technology used by
Educomp.
Miracle is connecting more than 200+corporates in
corporate training domain.
We decided to establish MVARSITY – A University to
Provide Quality Education to every child in India and
across Globe. This marks our movement towards the
beginning of new Journey.
2. Brief us about the Founder/CEO and the
motivation behind choosing E-learning platform?
Anupam an IIM Calcutta Alumni great motivator and
full of ideas beyond imagination, providing Thought
Leadership at Board Level and setting Strategies and
Direction.He is apt in Envisioning Opportunities and
convert successfully into business through swift and
analytical decision making. He has Keen eye for
innovations in Technology. He is visionary for Start-
Up Incubation, Entrepreneurship Development,
Strategic Consulting, New Technology Evaluation for
commercial viability.
3. What are the key points that you consider while
developing the E-learning content?
Technology is a Great Enabler and has vast outreach
while cconducting a needs analysis, more in-depth
data collection methods. The results of this analysis
intend to bring intelligence in your plan for design and
what you hope to get your learners to achieve using
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Miracle, C-59, Sec 2, NoidaHeadquarter
Software Development, Resourcing,
eLearning, Products
Segments Handled
E Learning, Development , Resourcing,
ConsultingProminent Industry Verticals
IBIBO, Emerson, Compunnel, NIIT, WHO,
KADDB, L&TMost Prominent Clients
Artificial intelligence with computer vision and machine
learning.
We intend to bring Intelligence to education, by
incorporating Artificial Intelligence into training
programmes.
4. Brief us about the services that the company
offers.
Key services we offer is of course the MVARSITY –
a. 360* platform for any business vertical to
Improve employee performance (Education,
Healthcare, BSFI)
b. Interactive content with SCROM package on
latest technology (Cyber Security, AI).
c. Smart Workforce Performance solutions based
on
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning,
computer vision, blockchain and IoT.
d. Besides we do have presence into Ecommerce
and ERP solutions as well.
5. What are the challenges in the Education Sector
in India?
The perception issue and credibility of online
courses Remain the biggest challenge for these
platforms Without using proctoring, intelligence
interaction and Tracking techniques.
The challenge we see is either Quality Education
Pricy And beyond reach of everyone. Besides, the
Schooling system don’t focus on imparting
knowledge that would prepare the kids for future.
6. Please share the latest technology that the
company is utilizing to offer better learning
solutions.
Our Learning Intelligence solutions utilise Artificial
Intelligence, smart learning algorithms, Computer
Vision, IOT and Machine Learning, so that the learn
and adopt to needs and help us build better.
7. How does the firm intend to handle its Societal
Responsibility? Please mention any special
charity or program as such.
Deliver several free workshops and lectures on
latest technology to engineering colleges,
supporting learning server UP police for learning in
cyber security.
8. What would be your advice for the budding
start-ups and entrepreneurs in the industry?
Creative thinking and out of the box approach can
do Miracle in this industry.
9. Brief us about the company’s future
perspectives.
Rolling out the most intelligence platform using lot
of latest technology, so every stake holder of the
industry will get the quality, authenticity and
valuable output.
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in India
&
About the Author
Himanshu Jain is the Founder and CEO of Acro
Engineering Company (AEC), which is the leading
distributor of high-performance hardware in India.
Recognised as a major specialised player in the
gaming industry, AEC has been one of the ﬁrst
companies to bring high-performance computing to
India. Jain has been fascinated, since childhood, with
any form of technology and the innovation behind it.
He chose this passion and eventually converted it into
a full-ﬂedged business with a team of over 200 people
in a very short span of time.
The Opportunity & the Challenges
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Virtual Gaming
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It’s no secret that healthy
competition breeds champions.
After all, as Ovid put it so aptly:
‘a horse never runs so fast as when he
has other horses to catch up and
outpace.’ What competition also does
is breed grounds for engagement,
entertainment, and thereby potentially
large business opportunities. The
expansive growth of the gaming
industry is one exemplary example of
this, amidst many others.
Growing up, gaming on a computer
was a captivating introduction in the
world of what was soon to become
digital entertainment. For instance,
everyone remembers the first version
of DOS snake, which Nokia
popularised much later, and very
successfully, as a mobile playable
game. We have all had some
experience with the early generations
of Atari and SEGA consoles, that
introduced the first games where two
or more people can compete against
each other.(I have fond memories of
competing against my sister on my
Atari, and it has stuck with me since.)
The evolution of technology has seen
an unbelievable makeover in the
gaming industry - incredibly realistic
graphics and visuals, ergonomic
gaming chairs that one can sit for hours
in, and immense hardware - all for an
immersive experience, but the core
principle still remains. Many may
oversimplify it as a pastime where you
just play to reach a pre-defined goal.
But in reality, it’s very different to
many people. In a single screen a
player can explore worlds that are only
limited to the developer’s imagination.
Players can compete against multiple
opponents from across the globe.
The eSports industry is projected to
have made nearly 900 Million Dollars
in the year 2018. Most of this revenue
is generated through digital goods such
as special player skins, collectable
items, and some performance
upgrades.
Many economists had predicted the
rise of eSports, but they had not
anticipated the sheer momentum this
industry would gather with its fan base
which is growing at an astounding rate.
Many traditional and seasoned
entrepreneurs have taken notice of this
industry and are asking the same
question.
What is eSports?
ESports is derived from the
amalgamation of the words ‘Electronic
Sports’. This involves two or more
people competing in teams or
individually using multi-player video
games. There is a mesmerising variety
of games, however the most popular
kinds involve multiple players, and are
thus known as MMO or Massively
Multiplayer Online games. These titles
include Dota 2, Overwatch, Counter-
Strike and many more.
The classification of eSports games
into different categories gets more
intricate: there are distinctions in
gameplay that results in players
requiring competitors to specialise in
different skill sets in order to compete.
FPS (First Person Shooter)
RTS (Real Time Strategy)
MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle
Arena) or Battle Royal.
This diversification has enabled game
publishers to create and captivate
audiences, and has set the stage for the
biggest competitive events that the
world has ever seen: the championship
finals for Dota 2, last year, for instance,
had attained more that 15 million
viewers; which is more than any sports
event has ever seen.
It’s not just the viewership that brings
in these astounding numbers. The prize
pool for the afore-mentioned
tournament was over 35 million USD;
a sum that’s never been offered at any
other sports competition in the world.
In 2010, the same tournament extended
a prize pool of just 1 million USD - a
clear example of the leaps and bounds
by which this industry is growing,
thanks to its overwhelming support
audience.
The eSports industry has also created
unique employment opportunities for
millions of people in the creative,
event and entertainment segment.
What is the challenge?
In the competitive realm, players
require hardware that allows them to
run games seamlessly at the highest
performance output settings.
However, given the degree of
technological finesse involved, high-
performance hardware come priced at
steep rates, and is not easy to acquire
by competitors in time.
The industry thereby loses out on much
higher participation and audiences who
want to play, but have to draw a line at
the pricing of the systems.
Unfortunately, there are also some
infamous stereotypes that surround the
players and the industry, such as
obsessive hours of playing, and anti-
social behaviour.
The Opportunity.
The challenge of highly-priced gaming
hardware has unearthed a unique
opportunity for entrepreneurship: India
is starting to see a surge in the number
of gaming cafes in IT cities, a mega
business opportunity, given its ability
to entertain audiences at the fraction of
the cost.
Gamers spend just Rs 300-500 per day
to play at gaming cafes instead of
having to shell out 100K for a gaming
computer. In turn, gaming cafés are
able to attain a return on their
investment as early as 18 months of
operations.
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Q#2. Brief us about the Founder/CEO
and the motivation behind choosing E-
learning platform?
Founders of SQUAD are four different
thinkers of four different specialization.
Rohit Sharma:- A common person just with huge
dreams, a learner, experimentalist and a risk driven
person.
Bhupinder Kumar:- A well organized and time dedicated
personality with enormous knowledge in software testing
field with multiple international certifications.
Ritupanna Mohan:- An exceptionally knowledgeable
person in the field of software development / networking
with great sense of dedication and an army in himself.
Maneesh Jha: – A world in himself, great leader /
motivator and positive person with deadline meeting
attitude.
E-learning simply stands for online learning. Today the
world is integrating with the technology as it has the
solution to almost every problem.
SQUADMaking India
Industry Ready
SQUAD Infotech Pvt. Ltd. ( SQUAD’) is Mumbai’s‘
first dedicated Professional Training Center for
Software Testing. It was founded with a mission to
provide highly skilled and trained Software Professionals to
IT companies.
In the following Interview with Insights Success, Maneesh
Jha, Director shares how the team is fine
tuning the learners as per the professional
needs.
Q#1. Kindly brief us about your
company and its initial journey.
SQUAD Infotech is a training and
placement company. It was
incorporated with a dream to make
training easier and approachable
while taking care of career of students.
Founders of SQUAD are in education
field varying from min 15 years to 30+
years of experience. It was impossible
but we achieved it, as a company
starting with nothing but
achieved target of
approx 8 corer (a
year) in a pre-
dominating big
brand world
with almost a
negligible
investment of
Rs. 1 lac.
Bhupinder Kumar Ritupanna Mohan
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Following are certain points that highlight the motivational
factors for SQUAD.
Ÿ Judicious utilization of technology for the betterment of
Indian society.
Ÿ Digital India campaign triggered the SQUAD Infotech to
integrate technology in educational field.
Ÿ E-learning platform can act as a good interconnect
between students and teacher, thus taking a care of best
teaching faculty’s availability to each and every student,
independent on where (s) he reside.
Ÿ Success stories of many online platforms instigated to
come up with new innovative ways to have a better
teacher-student connect.
Ÿ Learning gap between rural and urban areas due to
unavailability of good teaching resources motivated
squad to go online in order to cater their needs.
Ÿ It is predicted that online education system in India will
grow by 52% which influenced us to be a part of
dynamicity.
Q#3. What are the key points that you consider while
developing the E-learning content?
Following are key points from the student’s perspective
which are necessary to keep in mind while developing the
E- learning content
Ÿ Quality: – SQUAD has ensured that quality of the
content will never be compromised while developing the
content.
Ÿ Personal attention: – SQUAD takes the care of each and
every student’s need by allowing them to ask doubts
through doubt on chat module.
Ÿ Optimal length of single lecture:- Over here every
chapter is divided into different types and duration of
each video has been kept as small as it can be in order to
retain the concentration of students towards learning
Ÿ Making students super-ordinate:- SQUAD takes the
care of this particular aspect where student can come up
with any doubt without revealing his identity to others.
This will boost the confidence of students where no
doubts will remain unsolved
Ÿ Flexibility:- A dedicated all round video lectures
provided by SQUAD will give the flexibility to study
according to student’s availability
Q#4. Brief us about the services that the company offers.
SQUAD Infotech acts as an intermediary platform between
candidates and corporate world to better connect them
according to their respective demands. So, following are the
services that we offer in order to support the above
mentioned cause.
Rohit Sharma Maneesh Jha
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Ÿ Training in Software Testing, Java,
.NET, Python, PHP, Digital
Marketing & Spoken English
Ÿ Campus Recruitment Training
(CRT) program
Ÿ Placement on IT Job Profiles
through SmartHunt4u.com
Ÿ Global Certification Preparation and
Exams, such as ISTQB and Oracle.
Q#5. What are the challenges in the
Education Sector in India?
Following are certain challenges in
Indian education sector
Unavailability of good teaching faculty
Ÿ Syllabus of Indian education system
is not updated on time.
Ÿ Diversity in syllabus, teaching
quality across different educational
institute.
Ÿ There is a huge educational gap
between urban and rural areas due to
indifferent attitude of educational
institutes towards rural areas where
70 % of population resides.
Ÿ High fees often act as a barrier for
those living under poverty thus
leaving many of them out of
educational zone.
Ÿ No proper exposure to innovative
ideas leading to brain drain
Ÿ Inadequate budgetary support from
government.
Q#6. Please share the latest
technology that the company is
utilizing to offer better learning
solutions.
We are using web based open source
technologies to offer online contents.
SQUAD Infotech believes in basic and
advance technology learning
methodology. We use LMS (Learning
Management System), learning portal
like SQUADonline and training
delivery through goto-meeting.
Q#7. How does the firm intend to
handle its Societal Responsibility?
Please mention any special charity or
program as such.
For the growth of any business Passion
to build a better society act as fuel.
The main aim of the Squad is to be a
reason for the success of Indian youths
and to be a part of inclusive
development. Following are key points
that highlights our attitude towards
Societal Responsibility
Quality:- Squad ensures that each and
every student gets good quality of
education material designed by high
quality faculties at minimal coast
Scholarship programs:- Our
Scholarship programs will create an
opportunity to avail best of knowledge
at free of cost
Awareness program:- Colleges and
underdeveloped districts would be
selected to create awareness among
youths about importance of education.
Q#8. What would be your advice for
the budding start-ups and
entrepreneurs in the industry?
Following are certain points which I
would like to suggest
Ÿ Focus, Will, Determination &
Ability to take Decision
Ÿ Prepare for the best but be ready for
the worst.
Ÿ Never forget WHY?
Ÿ Long term planning followed by
short terms targets to achieve the
final goal.
Ÿ Not to be afraid in odd situations,
Finance is just one figure, be
proactive, team is best asset, who
sees the same what you see.
Q#9. Brief us about the company’s
future perspectives.
SQUAD Infotech has carried vision to
build-up strong technology leadership
training delivery in different part of
country and outside country. SQUAD
Infotech has taken multi-project to start
E-SQUAD across country with online
learning model to penetrate in tier 2
cities to minimize training cost with
world class training quality. Being
NSDC partner we have taken our
placement number very strong.
Nerul, Navi MumbaiHeadquarter
Training and PlacementSegments Handled
Quick Facts
Education & RecruitmentProminent Industry Verticals
Mastek, Capgemini, Quality
Kiosk & AQM
100-300 hrsTotal Content Hours
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Learning Made Measurable and Meaningful
SWIFT SOLUTION
What happens when friends
meet a powerful
personality, get influenced
and decide to brainstorm? Ideas fly,
entrepreneurial skills kick-in, night
outs are spent discussing a business
plan, opportunity and the market
potential, competitive scenario,
financial projections and details of the
management of the company, and
more.
But entrepreneurship doesn’t come
easy. Some succeed the first time but
for some, it’s a work in progress and a
continuous journey with shifting goal
post of excellence.
From Friends to Partners
Swift Solution Pvt. Ltd. started as a
culmination point of all the discussions
into the start of the entrepreneurial
journey on which the founders
Keshavan Belagod, Madhusudhan
Reddy and Manirangan embarked.
This was the year 2001-2003 during
the dot-com bust which saw them
caught in a wrong time but they were
bubbling, enthusiastic and willing to
crash land. The first few years were
very tough and saw a few core
members switching back to their
comfort zone. The rest of them faced
the hurdles and growth challenges
together encouraged by the spirit of
adventure and chasing a dream of
being recognized.
Today, Swift Solution stands tall in the
industry and is considered a pioneer. It
was way ahead of its time in bringing
the cutting-edge eLearning solutions
and products, thus carving its niche in
the sunrise sector of technology. After
more than a decade in business, the
founders see a robust need for the e-
learning services in India, especially in
multilingual format.
Learning Solutions
Swift has always been a focused
eLearning content development
company investing its time and
resources to better its content
development strategies. It offers
customized content development
services across various domains and
verticals. It also offers immersive and
interacting VR and AR content with AI
capabilities. Apart from its business
abroad, it has always focused on Indian
customer who is price and value
conscious.
Creating a Difference
The company believes that
personalisation is the key and that the
content delivered should meet the
organisation goal and the individual
goal of continuous value addition for
efficient performance on the job.
Dealing with people with a range of
emotions and motivation, the key
points it considers while developing
content are:
Ÿ The content must be built with the
context in mind. It should tightly
align with the learning objective of
the target segment.
Ÿ It should be short, interesting
nuggets with precisely targeting
learner’s need.
Ÿ It should relieve the learner from the
Keshavan Belagod
Co-founder & Director
Madhusudhan Reddy
Manirangan
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Ÿ drudgery of information
bombardment and make the learning
experience immersive, motivating,
compelling and one of great
satisfaction.
Ÿ It should be integrated with targeted
assessment strategies.
Finally, what also matters is the way
content is delivered, assessed and
analyzed. . The customised learning
Eco space tools like LMS,
Microlearning platform, Knowledge
sharing platforms, etc. should be
judiciously implemented for Just in
time, compulsory, continuous and need
based learning.
Implementing Technology
In an endeavor to remain relevant in
the e-learning industry, use of
technology is inevitable. Swift
Solution, to do the same:
Ÿ Has started using a lot of AR/VR
technologies using AI capabilities to
make learning more immersive and
impactful;
Ÿ Is using platforms like ‘WhatsApp’
as a component for continuous
learning;
Ÿ The popular offering includes
Microlearning, especially with
interactive videos;
Ÿ Developing open source applications
for effective mobile learning;
Ÿ Using the latest eLearning
publishing tools to create interactive
content.
Advising the Startups
The founders feel that the current
vibrant start-up culture is a boon to
India’s emerging economy. Their
advice is, “There is no better time to
start -up, if you have a disruptive idea
or something which makes life easier
for people, then trust your instincts and
jump -in. Do not procrastinate as your
ideas will have an expiry and will only
remain in your mind.” Having a great
team with diverse and complementary
skills, an exit strategy if things don’t
work out and using the money wisely
should be the priority.
It also mentors’ individuals in their
startup journey especially in the
domain of training and development.
To create a positive impact on society
through work, it also supports free of
cost to several NGOs, one of them is
the Mysore Spastic society.
Planning Ahead
Swift is investing in research and
development of aligning the low-cost
delivery channels in AR/VR for
affordable learning. A ready-to-use
content of soft skills and compliance
training is on the anvil in multi-
language formats so that the client can
adapt instantly with a little
customization to suit their needs.
Integration of Data Analytics into
need-based learning and performance
linked learning is going on. Overall, it
is investing its minds and people to
better its customer experiences with
the latest technologies and be future
ready.
We have seen the
evolution of eLearning
markets from a
Nascent CDROM based
delivery to the cutting
edge AR/VR and AI-
based learning content
and platforms
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Quick Facts
Headquarter Bengaluru, India
Segments Handled
•eLearning services •Training services
•Video production •VR and AR services
Prominent Industry Verticals Automobile, Banking and Financial Services, Education, IT,
FMCG and more
ABB, Swiggy, Standard chartered, Ashok Leyland,
ITC, Reliance Digital and more
Total Content Hours Over 5000
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