SmartOn Learning, a
education start-up, has set its foot in the Indian market. With
offices in New York and Hyderabad, the company boasts to specialize
in providing new-age career courses, developed in collaboration with
leading industry partners and Universities. The programs are offered
in blended format (combination of online & class-room based).
SmartOn Learning offers world-class technology platform to facilitate
blended/online learning along with career diagnostics and continuing
education solutions.
Starting with the Indian market, SmartOn Learning
plans to tap international markets subsequently. Based on the
“plug-and-play cloud based platform”, SmartOn Learning provides
an innovative platform for higher education institutes catering to
new age skills. SmartOn Learning aims to make quality content &
adoption of technology easy and affordable.
Speaking on the occasion, Chaitanya Chitta,
Co-founder of the company stated, “Higher Education is going
through significant transformation due to the market forces and
advent of new technologies. We see a huge opportunity in India to
push edtech & program innovation in new age careers by working
with Universities & Colleges for better outcomes of the students”
SmartOn has successfully launched it’s first
program in collaboration with Pearl Academy. Sharad Mehra, CEO Pearl
Academy has said “"As India's leading Art, Design &
Fashion education provider Pearl Academy constantly innovates it’s
offering to achieve superior student outcomes. We are excited to work
with SmartOn as they bring specialized programs using technology into
the higher education classrooms"
Rakshit Kejriwal, Co-founder of SmartOn concluded
saying “In SmartOn we have a great team of global professionals
with world-class backgrounds & experiences. We are bringing some
of the best education and technology companies across the world to
collaborate with us, so that our students acquire a competitive edge.
Finally, we are very excited to offer quality international education
at Indian cost”
Research has shown that less than 10% of MBA
graduates are employable and 83% of engineering graduates are unfit
for employment. About 50% of the universities have infrastructure
deficiencies and near about 40% of Universities faculty position
remain vacant. SmartOn Learning programmes are targeting careers
where there is a significant real-time demand and enabling students
to learn in an interactive way to acquire effective and relevant
knowledge.
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