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Sunday, July 13, 2025 3:33 PM

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Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Hon’ble School Education Minister, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Highlights some of the Initiatives taken under his Leadership

Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi

“The initiatives that we have taken is based on our honourable Chief Minister’s guidance, and almost like throughout India, we are doing on a kind of CM flagship program, which is education at the doorstep,” says Thiru Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Hon’ble School Education Minister, Govt. of Tamil Nadu in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSAChennai #ELSATamilNadu We are glad and honoured to have you at this event. Yeah, I’m very happy to be part of this event and first of all, I would like to thank Chandan and also Uma Kannan Madam for inviting me for a very good initiative that you have taken. Digitally I think you are managing with some of the employees throughout India. It seems like a good start, and I think you should reach great heights in this one. So, my wishes for you. Can you mention three or four special initiatives which, under your leadership, you have taken in Tamil Nadu, which could be an eye-opener and an example for the rest of the states? Yes, what are the initiatives that we have taken is based on our honourable Chief Minister’s guidance, and almost like throughout India, we are doing on a kind of CM flagship program, which is education at the doorstep. After two years of pandemic situation, students forget how to write, how to read the sentence and everything, and even the basics of reading they forgot. So, now we are just taking all the students, and also, this is one of the iconic, and even Jay Palan from Santiago Universities, they have given appreciation not only here, even in the United Nations, in the topic of education, they praised about our Tamil Nadu’s education doorstep scheme. So, that is one of the pride, not only for Tamil Nadu, this is for India. And the second one is, we are focusing more on the students’ drop percent. Like last year alone, almost one lakh and eighty-eight thousand students who are all went on the drop boards, we again searched them through an app, and we return them back to the education system. So, these are the things like I would like to say. We are just waiting for the results to come, any message would you like to give to the students? You should have self-confidence because honourable Chief Minister like now, he has introduced a Naan Mudhalvan system, and I used to say in all the school functions, like each and every student based on their talent, a chat is waiting for them in the world. So, have the self-confidence. Top of Form  

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Dr. Irfan Mustaqim, Principal, Tarbiyah Cambridge International School Shares Insights on Adapting to Technology in Education

Dr. Irfan Mustaqim

“It was a huge challenge for us to start an English medium school with moral values at that location,” says Dr. Irfan Mustaqim, Principal, Tarbiyah Cambridge International School in an interview with Pratik Ghosh, Content Writer, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSAChennai #ELSATamilNadu How are you feeling to witness this new normal education Leadership Summit on Awards in Chennai? Yeah, it’s been a great experience for me and for many other educators as well. The panel is discussing new things and putting forward new ideas. We have learned many things today. It’s been a fantastic experience. Tell us something about your institution and how it is adapting to technology? We started this institution in 2014 in a rural place in West Bengal, about 350 kilometres away from Kolkata. It was a huge challenge for us to start an English medium school with moral values at that location. Initially, we struggled a lot to make the parents understand the system of modern education. Now things are going a little bit easier, but post-COVID, we are facing different issues, such as students being addicted to technology. This issue is being addressed by the panellists very well, but what we need to focus more on is how to handle these kids who have been addicted to technology. We seriously need to work on this. Parents are asking us not to send homework on their WhatsApp because they will get the phone and spend time on the device. We need to address how to recover from this. School level, at a ground level, we need to take care of this. We need to address this particular issue. That is what we are facing. As you can see, in this kind of forum where we bring in the education leaders, EdTech companies, as well as the government, how does this kind of forum benefit the education sector? This is New India, digital India, what I believe. If I talk about five years down the line before or before covid, there was a system that we used to search YouTube and we get materials but this was not very common, now it has been very common. So, things are very accessible on the social medias.  These kinds of platforms will definitely help educators, academicians, and the coming generation seeking jobs. This is a need of power actually. As a media start-up, we began in 2021, and in a few months, we will be completing two years of our existence. Any message for ArdorComm Media Group? You have to come up and support the digital India mission of our nation because we have to serve the nation in the interest of the nation. This is a need of hour actually because you have to come up as media centres and support the educators and all the sectors possible so that we can grow together. As we say if we stand together, we’ll grow; otherwise, we’ll fall together.

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Dr. Sushila Chaudhary, Principal of Bhagwan Mahavir International School, Shares Insights on Blended Education and the Importance of Educational Conferences

Dr. Sushila Chaudhary

“You can say the techniques or the methods which we implement over here, it took a decade to come over there, which I have practically felt,” says Dr. Sushila Chaudhary, Principal of Bhagwan Mahavir International School in an interview with Pratik Ghosh, Content Writer, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSAChennai #ELSATamilNadu How are you feeling to witness The New Normal Education Leadership Summit and Awards in Chennai? I was very curious to learn new things, so you can say all along from Surat, Gujarat we have come over here, and I have attended many more conferences. I was looking forward to taking a new intake which I can implement in our school. So, that was the main reason why I have come over here. I love to attend these Edu conferences so that these learnings can create one change in the life of the children, those students who are in the north and they can’t come over here to study. So, education over South, as you know, is very, very good. You can say the techniques or the methods which we implement over here, it took a decade to come over there, which I have practically felt. I was teaching in Bangalore, and currently, now, I am in Surat. I have observed that the learning which we had in Bangalore and in Surat, it is implemented now. So, that was the main reason. I don’t want any child to be left behind in terms of education, the learnings, and all that. So, that was the main reason for me to attend the conference. What’s your take on the blended education or the hybrid education? Some students are very shy to speak up in the classroom, but due to this flipped classroom, that barrier has been gone, and now, students, they come up and take the place of the teacher, and the teacher takes their place. It is a drastic change. The confidence level of the students has changed a lot, and the same thing for blended learning and hybrid learning, which we have through Corona only we have seen. And it is a must because only classroom learning or teaching through chalk and book, we can’t make a holistic learning. So, that is why these things need to be included in education. As you can see, in this kind of forums, we try to bring in the education leaders, the EdTech players, as well as the government. So, how does this kind of forum benefit the education sector according to you? We come across with many leaders and when we talk with them about their schools, their learning, about what methods they are implementing, what is their vision, what is our vision, so that is an exchange of ideas which is helpful to all the leaders who have attended here. It is not that we have just come to attend the conference. It is learning for a leader that guess what good we can take it from here and what good we can do it for us. ArdorComm Media is a media start up, we initiated in 2021, and in few months, we will be completing two years of our existence. So, any message you want to give to ArdorComm Media Group? First of all, I would like to congratulate, and this is the first time I’ve heard about it, and after connecting with it, I would like to be connected in the future, and whatever conferences or events you will be doing, I will be the first person to register in it. So, wish you a very good luck, and you are doing a great thing that connecting all the leaders, and it is a great thing for the students also.

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Arunkumar G, Director and Founder, Newton’s Apple Public School shares his views on Blended Learning and Flipped Classroom

Arunkumar G

“Before asking a question or some interactive item, the teacher needs to feed the content to the students’ brain,” says Arunkumar G, Director and Founder, Newton’s Apple Public School in an interview with Pratik Ghosh, Content Writer, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2023’ #ELSAChennai #ELSATamilNadu How are you feeling to witness The New Normal Education Leadership Summit and Awards in Chennai? Yeah, I enjoyed a lot and from other speakers, got some input as well. It is very useful, and this kind of summits need to happen at least really once. Can you tell about your institution, how you are implementing technology in terms of educational pedagogy? Let me introduce my institution. It is Newton’s Apple Public School situated in Malayanur near Dharmapuri. We follow Chrysalis, and we are using it. Now we are kind of looking for new platforms, basically. So that’s one of the reasons I came for this summit and visited all the stalls and pretty useful. We’ll discuss with the board members and design here. What’s your take on the Blended Education concept and the flipped classroom model which is coming up? Blended education is nothing but you will have both offline and online. So, you will have an offline classroom that will stay, but, end of the day, teacher can give an online access course or online material which students can use. So, that too, kind of, the teacher might, if possible, they can give some personalized content for students, but it’s not the must. But they can give some online materials to continue the learning at home. That is Blended Education. Flipped education is kind of you are giving some content pre-content right, it may be full content or whatever right to the student and next day classroom, students will come prepared. Okay, prepared or they know what is going to get taught. So, the main advantage of flipped learning is that classroom time is in-person time. That is very crucial, and we need to use the most out of it. Mostly, it should be spent for interaction. So, teachers should not be spending time to teach something or some content. So, before asking a question or some interactive item, the teacher needs to feed the content to the students’ brain. So, they will be spending most of the time for that. So, the actual interaction or participation or collaboration, that is very less usually, but this flipped education enables that. Teachers can spend more time on this, so that’s a very advantage. That’s why when the moderator asked me if you become an Education Minister, what do you do? I will Implement flipped education, so we’ll enable them. As you can see in this kind of forums where we bring in the education Leaders, the EdTech players as well as the government. So, how does this kind of forum benefit the education sector? Yeah, the first thing is you will get to know the latest trends, what’s happening in our school. So, usually, schools operate in isolation, and there is less collaboration opportunity for collaboration is very less. So, these kinds of summits enable them to collaborate with others, and they will get to know the latest trend and technology whatever available. And participation from the government also enables us to kind of they will also understand what is the trend going on. What message do you want to share to ArdorComm Media Group? Yeah, it’s a nice preparation. I would say it’s perfect, and well-organized, and will expect more Summits like this at least early once.

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Deepak Joshi, CEO, Phando speaks about the vision and mission of the company

Deepak Joshi

“We are working in video engineering and there are a lot of concepts related to videos that we are coming up with,” says Deepak Joshi, CEO, Phando in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan Would like to understand more about Phando, your mission, vision and what you are doing at Phando? We started Phando in 2013 as a video streaming technology platform and with a vision that we wanted to provide a cost optimized video solution for all the EdTech, OTT and media industry. We started with a lot of media houses, we’re working with hundred plus media houses and cable TV operators, ISPs, broadcasters. So, I think it’s been a great journey in the past 10 years especially after pandemic there was a surge in OTT and IPTVs so we are tapping that industry as well. I think it’s going well and the future is good for video. We saw some good initiatives here related to videos and EdTech industries is also going towards video-led learnings now. I mean earlier it was more of texts-based learning, quiz assessments but now we see that Coursera, Udemy, UpGrad a lot of EdTech platforms are coming with the vision of video-led learnings, so video is definitely the future and that’s why we are working in video engineering and there are a lot of concepts related to videos that we are coming up with. Do you also provide training to the people who will be buying this or implementing this in the curriculum? No, we are not an EdTech platform we are a back-end technology partner of any EdTech. So, we help universities, schools to set up their own EdTech. As we have all gathered at New Normal Education Leadership Summit, according to you what is the word New Normal stands for? We are hearing this word a lot after pandemic when kids started coming to school in April 2022 we had fear with our kids also that whether this is going to work what will happen uh in a post-pandemic the covid situation and all but I think we are picking up fast and it’s been a great transformation after pandemic they are a blend of offline and online learning now and earlier they were just on physical education and all this but now they are very well comfortable with laptops and online learnings as well. So, I think the new normal is going to be a hybrid model of offline and online learning and that’s what it is. I think for me New Normal is the hybrid model. During pandemic definitely the hybrid or the blended learning was much adopted, are you seeing the same growth post pandemic? Yes, definitely we see a surge, the number says itself there are a lot of surge in the user consumption. We saw a lot of EdTech, Byjus and other they’re growing rapidly and that’s because of this online learning space and also the penetration of Internet is booming, 5G is coming, there are AR, VR possibilities. There are new things coming up with metaverse also things will move faster because it will feel the students that they are there itself. So, of course I see a lot of potential there and it’s growing. How does certain kind of forum help when we see the technology partners, start-ups, EdTech, academia and even the government at the common platform, so how do you experience this event as? This is always helpful, whatever we are doing we are doing that but we also learn a lot with other start-ups, other people from the same fraternity and when we hear principles and educators and EdTech owners so we come to know what’s going on actually in the grassroot. We’re from Delhi and generally we hear a lot from Delhi people but then when we are talking about so for example Jaipur or any regional places it’s very helpful because we probably do not know what’s going on there in tier three, tier four cities so that it’s very important and of course the other companies also, so we learn a lot and I’ve seen multiple solutions here also. I’m glad to share that recently ArdorComm Media celebrated it’s one and a half years and we celebrated our anniversary doing multiple forums, webinars, events, any message or any advice for ArdorComm Media Group? Congratulations, I’ve been following you for the past one year, Ashish was in touch also so we saw you did some fantastic events and Ashish was chasing us and because Jaipur was nearby so we thought that let’s participate this time, but amazing coordination and everything was superb. So, congratulations for all this and I wish you all the best for your future.  

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Murali Krishna, Vice President (Sales), Leadsquared speaks about the USP of the company

Murali Krishna

“Our end goal is to automate and create efficiencies across different teams that’s being the major objective,” says Murali Krishna, Vice President (Sales), Leadsquared in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan How does certain forums help when we see the EdTech partners, academicians and even the government stakeholders at a common platform? All the institutes are going digital, that’s the current scenario right in India and events like this help them to understand more about the ongoing technologies, tools like Leadsquared and various other tools in the market and digital transformation has been buzzword now and how Leadsquared kind of a tools can help in the transformation across admission processes and I think events like this helps them to get that information more handy. Can you tell us more about Leadsquared? We are a 10-year-old company, we focus on application management and CRM and overall automation processes for schools, colleges, universities. As a business we are into multiple domains but education remains our key focus area so we have about 600 odd customers in education across different spectrum of clients starting from large colleges like Amity, BML and we have universities in different categories in different cities. Being said that our core focus area is to help colleges to efficiently run the admission process and automate as much as possible in terms of the student journey. As we have already seen there is the flood of EdTech companies and in the same domain there are many players big and small, what has been the USP of Leadsquared? That’s a good question, so at the outset the basic technology for most of the companies remains the same, everybody is a CRM or a lead management company so the focus is in three important parameters, one is what is the end goal of the product, what is that it wants to solve. In Leadsquared our end goal is to automate and create efficiencies across different teams that’s being the major objective. So, every feature we launch goes around automating the counselling process, automating the admission journey, that’s number one, number two is how you serve that customer and understand the market so education is a very different market compared to other segments like BFSI or marketplaces or any other segments which are there. So, this is more of a nascent market in terms of technological adaption so the core in this particular area is to have a better service and better user adaption so we may have a beautiful software, very robust features but if the end customer is not using it is as good as not helping them solve the problem. So, we focus on driving adaption at multiple levels starting from the marketing teams the counselling teams, admission teams. So, these are the key differentiators and we are pocket friendly also so that may help customers to not burn a lot of money on having tools in place. Any specific reason as in, compared with say tier one, rural or say the tier 2 cities which as per your experience responds better to you? Tire one obviously, because tire one colleges understand the potential of technology, so they are definitely ahead on the curve. Tire two is catching up, tire three colleges they respect technology but they may not need the robust technology because their admissions are more driven by the locality so even if they have technology they may not have enough resources to use the technology to the full potential. So, yeah tire two response better, tire one is always best. As we have all gathered at New Normal Education Leadership Summit, what is the word new normal for you stands? So, the New Normal is colleges adapting technology for me, like five years back people were using pen and paper for admissions now that move to Excel sheet in the last two three years probably and now people are looking for tools which can help them with just not a tool for automation for application but tools across the college it may be an LMS it can be overall digital classrooms, it can be ERP. So, they are looking to adapt to multiple tools which can ease the manual work, so I think from the technology perspective that’s the new normal for us and the education policies and whatever the initiatives government is taking, skill learning and all of that, all of them will add up in the curve in terms of the education as an industry and it will evolve from here and I think there should be no looking back from her. I’m glad to share with you that we have successfully completed one and a half years as a media startup, we have entered into many markets, region, entire geography we are trying to cover, any message or advice would you like to give to ArdorComm Media Group? All the very best for the whole team of ArdorComm Media and looking for many more events like this. From our perspective the events are decent and if you can get more targeted crowd that would help all the participants as well the partners who are participating. I wish you a very happy journey going forward and all the best for your future.  

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Dr. C. Manohar, Senior Director, Association of Indian Management Schools, Bangalore emphasizes on hybrid learning

Dr. C. Manohar

“If we want to really create confidence in the students we have got to first upgrade ourselves,” says Dr. C. Manohar, Senior Director, Association of Indian Management Schools, Bangalore in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan We welcome you at today’s forum Dr. C. Manohar. I must compliment you congratulate you and admire the way you have taken this initiative forward the New Normal Leadership Summit. New Normal has remained just a concept and is changing every day what is normal today is old tomorrow so I think it’s a continuous journey in the flow it’s like river is always flowing we need to integrate ourselves with the changes that are happening, the mindsets of the youngsters. As learners and as teachers we need to adapt, adopt and also change, so there’s a learning curve we have to keep ourselves on the high side so this kind of events what you are organizing I must appreciate is helping the teaching community, the owners of businesses, the educational institutions and all that to update ourselves the EdTech companies that are there. In fact, I have participated, have attended couple of such events in the last two years, I find if the same company comes again, so in the next event they are coming with something new. I mean that is the kind of development and progress that we would like to witness. This gives us a confidence that India is on the right path of growth when it comes to education we can be among the top leaders in education, in the world, definitely in Asia. I think these events are very meaningful for us. How do you think the hybrid learning or a blended learning will take the shape now? There is no escape, it has to be that way, there is nothing like only classroom sessions and face to face are only the online kind of a thing, it has to be integrated, blended and in the concept of blending also it keeps on changing because everything should be learner-centric. Today we find learners are much more dynamic and more educated when it comes to operational efficiency of learning even as compared to teachers, of course many teachers are upgrading themselves and they are good. If we want to really create confidence in the students we have got to first upgrade ourselves so that is very important. So, hybrid learning is going to be the order of the day so because we don’t have now the frontier, there are no borders, no classroom the whole world is your classroom today obviously hybrid has to be there and we have to adapt ourselves. What has been the outcome of this event or what are your takeaways from this event? My take away is, what is coming up again today I’m sure if I come to the next event I will see from now on to next event there will be a lot more changes. So, my takeaway is an update of what is happening in the EdTech space and also the experimentation, the new case studies which are good to replicate in other institutions. So, one good practice in one institution can be replicated and we can bring back with a new context from the same institution again. So, my takeaway is a good networking, and I could meet some new friends in the education field plus I could participate in the sessions, some new knowledge also acquired and that way it’s good, that gives me the energy and I would say that gives me confidence that yes at this phase of life we are also learners and we have to be continuous learners, lifelong learners I would say. Any message would you like to give to ArdorComm Media Group? You’re doing a good job, keep going, maybe you have to reach out to, like today you had a session on digital divide and urban and rural, I think these events should go to rural areas they are no more called the rural area they are the emerging new cities and the new knowledge hubs in fact in one of the recent events that happened in Bangalore, over 40,000 students participated and who emerged on the top 10 or 70 percent were the rural students. Imagine now if that is a kind of a reach, if it’s there we should not miss recognizing the fact that today even in rural area there is the talent, that is available we need to nurture it. It’s very important that we do that, so my message to ArdorComm Media is keep doing, keep going, outreach has to be much more, I would say even go to international level, regional levels, you can go to South Asia, Asia Pacific.

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Dr. Ashok Narain Mathur, President, Homeopathy University, Jaipur, Rajasthan speaks about the importance of mental wellbeing

Dr. Ashok Narain Mathur

“If we talk about the homeopathy science, that is purely based on the mental symptoms,” says Dr. Ashok Narain Mathur, President, Homeopathy University, Jaipur, Rajasthan in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan What are your takeaways from the event? Firstly, I would like to congratulate you for organizing the event and bringing us all together here. The deliberations that take place in these events definitely helps the education sector and the private universities. Like there were discussions on digitalization, its very much needed not only in the urban areas but also in the rural areas. Though in case of medical education or homeopathy it is not possible because until we see the patients physically, treatment can’t be done, but we can give some tips so that they can be cured. What is the importance of physical, mental and social wellbeing in an education system? All these are important, if the mental level of a person is not good he can’t be cured. If we talk about the homeopathy science, that is purely based on the mental symptoms. So, I would say both physical and mental wellbeing are equally important. What is an outcome of such events where we see the presence of educators, academicians, EdTech and even the representation of the government? The outcome is good, like there’s so much about digitalization and as our prime minister also emphasizes that digitalization should take place, so it is very good. And the organizations should work fast on it so that the universities develop better. What does new normal for you stands? New normal is, as I came to know that you organize such events in many places and this is the first time in Rajasthan, so when we all meet together we’ll naturally speak about ourselves and learn from others, how to address our lacunas and developments. Any message for the students, teachers and faculties? I would like to say that we are making it research based for our teachers, because in medical science research is very important and in homeopathy under Ayush there is an immense need for research. We are trying to focus on this in our university and the more we focus on research the more would be the development in Ayush. During covid time, homeopathic science has developed a lot and not only in India but also across the world there has been a demand for homeopathy. Any message for ArdorComm Media? You have organised the event very well. Like I was listening that you are going to organize it next in West Bengal, so like this keep organizing more such events, it will benefit everyone and motivate every university.

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Dr. Ajay Singh Rathore, President (Vice Chancellor), Shyam University, Rajasthan highlights the importance of skilling

“In regular conventional courses, the main focus should be on training and practical,” says Dr. Ajay Singh Rathore, President (Vice Chancellor), Shyam University, Rajasthan in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan Would like to know and understand more about your University? Shyam University is located in Dausa District of Rajasthan and at present we have ten thousand five hundred students learning in education and 250 is research scholar and we have many various courses especially programs like D. Pharmacy, B. Pharmacy, B. Ed., LLM, BALLB and many other courses. How do you address the digital divide in rural and urban areas? There is a very big problem especially the rural area background students are admitted in my University, mainly they focus on their job they do not attend the regular classes. So, they did not know what is the digital, they focus on blackboard study. What is the effort which your University is taking in having the industry collaborations? My university is established in 2018 it is new University, after 2024, then we’ve a plan for a NAAC inspection, UGC inspection, then we’ll focus on the placements in our University. How is skill important in the regular conventional courses? In regular conventional courses, the main focus should be on training and practical. In our university we focus on practical training and especially project reports and many other things related to practical work. In this forum what has been your experience till now where we are meeting so many people, there are education technology players also what is the learning from being a participant at this event? This platform is very valuable platform and I want to thank this platform for attempting to bring all the eminent educationists of Rajasthan in one platform and the deliberations that took place will be very beneficial for the education sector. Any message for ArdorComm Media Group? I would like to say that please try to organize such summits at least once a year over here.  

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Amit Shah, Founder, Offee explains how they are revolutionizing the examination process with their tech solution

Amit Shah

“As a society the output of an education will be outcome based and the students will be really skilled, which the industries are today looking to,” says Amit Shah, Founder, Offee in an interview with Chandan Anand, CEO & Group Editor, ArdorComm Media Group at the ‘ArdorComm New Normal – Education Leadership Summit & Awards 2022’ #ELSAJaipur #ELSARajasthan Would like to know more about Offee? So, typically what we do is we enable any colleges to conduct their academics exam digitally but without internet or lab setup at all. So, student can just sit in the classroom open up his mobile, switch his phone to airplane mode connect to our patented technology that is our IOT device and start taking the exams. So, as an Institute you don’t need to invest into lab setup, you don’t need to invest into internet etc at all, tens and thousands of students can sit inside the university and then give their exams. So, this is something that we have recently innovated, the reason to do this is that once this colleges start taking their exams digitally, college will start sitting on data points with the help of this data point and student behaviour they can help students to say that hey you got 60 percent that is okay but you have this skills which are lacking and this is skill in which you’re brilliant, why don’t you improve that. So, colleges can reduce a lot of time in say conducting an exam digitally, teachers can reduce a lot of time in making the entire work reducing the admin work and overall. As a society the output of an education will be outcome based and the students will be really skilled which the industries are today looking to, so that is something that we do. Is it like conducting the examination, assessment and the results through Offee in offline mode? Yes, so we help colleges to build their paper for program outcomes, course outcome everything then we help colleges to conduct these exams which are academic exams, unit tests and semester exams including overall everything then we process the result, we give them a report card and we also give them a skill scorecard which speaks about every student and their behaviour around it. When we see that so many players are there into different LMS, ERP and so much of EdTech things coming in, how did this idea come to your mind what inspired you to do is something different from the league? We see that majority of the EdTech start-ups in India are into B2C space which we feel is that in my personal opinion, classroom teaching can never go out it can be a blended model yes but classroom as a solution or university as an institute can never go out but what if we enable these teachers inside the classroom and build technologies for them. So, that is what we are different we are building technologies for teachers inside the classroom so they can increase their engagement, they can reduce their admin work and they can really deliver quality and outcome-based education. You have been working in which segments in the education? So, in education we work with higher education, in schools both. Similarly, we work with government departments to do competitive recruitment exams where today to do any competitive exams you require a computer-based system, so CBD is not available everywhere so our solutions enable any government departments to take their recruitment or entrance test at remote level. So, the setup goes to the people and not the people come to the setup. What has been a take away from these two days of the symposium and the event? For me this is the first event I visited after pandemic, I mean event specifically into EdTech. This is much needed, I really appreciate the entire ArdorComm team, making people and Vice Chancellors come together it’s a huge task, I can relate with it we are in this segment. So, the efforts that you guys have put in to make people come together and it was very much needed after pandemic because last two years got them confused a lot like what to do, what not to do, what tech to bring in, what tech not to bring in, how will teachers cope up. In this seminar I feel the energy that these guys have come up together, they are so happy about inculcating EdTech into their domains and this is only possible with this medium. I will personally thank you and even Ashish ji to organize this and I will say keep rocking and keep doing this again and again. At last any message or any advice for ArdorComm Media Group? What you are doing is really great, keep doing it so that we can together be a part of this for a long time.  

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