The modern scenario has changed the ways of learning drastically, and that's what has made so many Startups to enter the sector of online education and skill development. Founders are eagerly designing tools and providing e-lessons to develop skills helpful in getting jobs both before and after graduation, providing courses details, institutions details, and offering the best course material online regardless of age, location, educational level.
Millions of users, students, teachers of all age access internet daily to learn new things or to find out solution to their problems. And their are these days hundreds of such platforms who are there willing to help you out with that.
Founders and firms are daily coming up with new ideas, How to help the education sector, fight its current bottlenecks? Some are hiring teachers to provide lessons online, some are providing funds to students to complete their education, some help them in selling their research works to make money and some of them simply provides you with lessons to help you in your studies.
Millions of users, students, teachers of all age access internet daily to learn new things or to find out solution to their problems. And their are these days hundreds of such platforms who are there willing to help you out with that.
Founders and firms are daily coming up with new ideas, How to help the education sector, fight its current bottlenecks? Some are hiring teachers to provide lessons online, some are providing funds to students to complete their education, some help them in selling their research works to make money and some of them simply provides you with lessons to help you in your studies.
Following is a list of such few Startups -
1. University Now
Working through www.unow.com, this startup is working towards providing education to everyone, everywhere. The mission of UniversityNow is to help ensure that affordable, high quality post-secondary education is available to people everywhere. To accomplish this UniversityNow is building network of the most affordable and accessible accredited universities all over the world.
2. Demo Lesson
Demo lesson is a revolutionary online hiring platform that gives teachers the power to market themselves.
Demo lesson profile serves as your professional digital portfolio.
3. Qeyno Labs
Qeyno Labs works with local partners and schools to bring technology-enabled career discovery into under-served classrooms using game-like rewards and mentorship from successful professionals.
4. StockOfU
StockOfU allows individuals and businesses to buy "shares" of college students in order to help subsidize a student's education cost.
5. Code Academy
Code Academy provides users with 11-week program that teaches people how to build web applications. Neal Sales-Griffin and Mike McGee, Co-Founders.
6. Programr
At Programr, users can code, compile & run projects right in the browser in almost any language. You can make & run command-line programs, web applications, database applications as well as rich media apps right in the browser.
7. MeritNation
An Indian startup , providing complete schooling needs at your home on your desktop. Lessons, daily tests, books, courses for every class and every board of education available in India. Meritnation provides NCERT solutions, CBSE online study material, ICSE online study material, CBSE revision notes, CBSE model test papers, CBSE guess papers, interactive puzzles.
These were some startups, Here are some more of these kinds, who have been in this business for long.
- Chegg - Textbook rental. Founders: Osman Rashid, Aayush Phumbhra.
- Inigral - Facebook apps for higher education. Founders: Michael Staton, George Deglin, Joseph Sofaer
- Inkling - Making educational content online, mobile, and social. Founders: Matt MacInnis, Joshua Forman, Rob Cromwell.
- Grockit - Test Prep (SAT, GMAT, LSAT, etc.). Founder: Farbood Nivi.
- Knewton - Adaptive learning platform that provides learning recommendations for each student in any digital course. Partnered with Pearson's Higher Education unit in 2011 to power their digital products. Founder: Jose Ferreira.
- TeachStreet - Online community for finding classes and learning new things. Founder: Dave Schappell.
- eduFire - Live, online & interactive video classes. Founder: Jon Bischke.
- Academic Earth - Video courses from leading universities. Founder: Rick David.
- 2Tor - Working with traditional universities to put degree programs online. Founder: John Katzman
- Udemy - Allows anybody to create online course with on-demand and live classes. Founder: Gagan Biyani, Eren Bali
- Khan Academy - a non-profit org started by one guy who made 2000 + free videos on a variety of subjects; now backed by Gates Foundation. Founder: Salman Khan.
- Koofers - Free online testbank, professor ratings, flashcards, and more
- iversity - Collaborate in open or closed courses and network withion an international community of students, instructors and researchers
