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We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran
25/08/2024

We want to define the future of learning: Byju Raveendran

New Delhi: Edtech startup Byju’s wants to define the future of learning in India and overseas as learning takes an online path, that may stay beyond the pandemic, said a top executive.

“I want to define the future of learning and create a part of it and find that ideal blended format of learning. I will be happy if I can play a role in defining the online schools of tomorrow,” Byju Raveendran, founder and CEO, Byju’s at the ongoing Resurgence TiEcon Delhi–NCR virtual event on Thursday.

Raveendran said that it is all about finding the right balance between being technology driven, media-enabled content first strategy and believing in the power of self-learning. “Any student who learns on our platform are self-learners so what I am trying to make popular is the love for learning in students not just in India but around the world.”

Edtech firms like Byju’s got a shot in the arm due to the pandemic induced lockdown when learning went online.

“Our biggest challenge was how to bring screen learning in the mainstream, but lockdown led people to take up online education. Our classrooms will be changing for the first time in 100 years,” said Raveendran

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Finland’s ‘teaching by topic’ instead of ‘teaching by subject’ policy actually started in Norway 40 years ago | The Independent
22/08/2024

Finland’s ‘teaching by topic’ instead of ‘teaching by subject’ policy actually started in Norway 40 years ago | The Independent

It was billed as one of the most radical reforms ever undertaken by a nation state when Finland decided to move away from “teaching by subject” to “teaching by topic – phenomina-based learning, as it has been called.

It was – although it probably would not have been considered as such by anyone who had a connection with the Ringstabekk school just outside Oslo in Norway. The school had embarked on a similar reform 40 years ago.

So it is probably best placed to adjudicate on how such a radical transformation has bedded down.

“Most parents are very satisfied with the school,” said its headteacher Bjorn Bolstad. “They realize that it is actually preparing their kids for a future working life.”

The policy changed kicked in after teachers observed that the pupils were not truly engaged in what they learned at school

As a result they changed to organizing themselves in teams to deliver topic-based lessons. “When teachers are hired at this school (a 425-pupil school for 13 to 16-year-olds), they know very

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