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Unleashing Edfora-IIT Chapters… Learner’s paradise is in the making

Edfora is on a mission to take quality education to every nook and corner of the socie-ty. Team Edfora embarked upon its journey to partner with the premier T-Schools & B-Schools of the country. Beginning with IIT Bombay on April 14 the team is all set to visit ITBHU, Varanasi on April 19. Two days in the lush green campus instilled fresh-ness and rejuvenated the mis-sion to revolutionize educa-tion. The young minds very enthusiastically participated in the presentation focused on Edfora and its mission.

Large number of students turned up and started reso-nating with the vision of Ed-fora as the management team shared the roadmap to building a new learning para-digm. Tablets were circulated and as the audience explored Ed-fora’s Android App their in-quisitive minds directed in-quiries related to Edfora’s unique education platform. From promotion strategy to technology; and adoption to user experience; the house threw apt questions. The in-teraction left us with key takeaways.

How we picked our ambassadors? The herculean task of selecting the reformists to take Edfora’s vision to masses entailed shortlisting through group discussions. The finalists present-ed a write-up to showcase their marketing prowess and missionary acumen. Their perspectives on benefits for various stakeholders were evaluated.

Date:16th April 2012

Laying the foundation of the Edfora-IITB Chapter The selected ambassadors were inducted to engage & onboard the various edu-cation stakeholders on Edfora.

The students took charge of respec-tive zones defined for Mumbai region. Enthusiasts also proposed Hydera-bad, Jalgaon, Kota & Jaipur Chapters. The zonal com-mands would spread awareness by visiting schools and onboarding teachers in their zones. This effort would culminate into onboarding the

unsung heroes of yester years. Amassing their contribution is slat-ed to result in the largest digital col-lection of educa-tional content in the world. Equipped with skill and armory re-quired for creating a video the bud-ding technocrats would empower the teaching frater-nity.

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Student Testimonials

“Hundred words for every question were really less to say what all can be done for the betterment of society as well as our initiative. The entire selection process has been a great learning experience to me. I personally have been associated with social causes for past 2-3 years and Edfora seems to be the one directly hitting on the root cause of all evil thoughts/ideas prevailing in the society. I will be really glad to be a part of this team. I enjoyed every part of selection procedure. Besides everything it will be a great experience to work with people with such great vision like Edfora. If I got selected I promise you to work with full dedication and enthusiasm for the betterment and fulfilment of this project.” - Rahul Jain, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

Technology needs to be available (digital universe) instead of being confiscat-ed at the classroom door (digital refugee)...

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Responses From Edfora’s Ambassadors...

“It is a known fact that schools discourage private tuitions, as tuitions do not necessarily augment but replace school educa-tion. By subscribing to Edfora’s services they provide their students with an assisting learning method which firstly, can be developed. by their very own teachers and secondly, augment school education as students can revisit important concepts at any time and would have familiarity to the teaching methods presented. Edfora can have a significant impact in higher education services as well. University professors have an unenviable task of not only teaching as faculty but also the pressure of churning out high quality research along with it. Edfora can augment their teaching process by being a depository of teaching content developed by them or shared worldwide amongst faculty. This could significantly bring down workload and help them achieve a higher standard of publishing. Some of the initiatives of Ed-fora could also promote cross-discipline coordination for example in core subjects which have wider application as a supple-mental tool and further expansion like core mathematics courses and accounting courses.” - Atulit Khanna, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

What are benefits for a school in becoming a partner of Edfora?

“The vision of Edfora as we know is “Education is our fundamental right; lets make it happen together ” and it is a community service first where without doubt its biggest beneficiaries are students. Students worldwide shall have access to one of the largest pool of data and information which they can study at their own pace and will. Also a major ben-efit for student any age is that any long term injury or illness will not have any major impact on his academic performance as he would always have access to any topic being taught. The biggest benefit of Edfora for students is that it is free, free to access and free to explore which makes it perfect replacement to any coaching or tuition class a student may have to go to and spend thou-sands. Also, students have one of the most important roles in Edfora as they are the ones who judge any contributors works. Students ensure that quality stays at the top and also that anything wrong is clearly pointed out, hence not only is Edfora helping them but the student community plays a major role in ensuring the supreme quality provided through Edfora to the entire student community.” - Atulit Khanna, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

What are benefits for the teachers in becoming the partners of Edfora?

“Larger platform for them to be noticed and self actu-alize and try to empower themselves Teachers even though altruistic in nature have a need like any person to see their work come to fruition and if possible to reach out to a large section of society. Edfora provides them exactly that platform to do this.” - Karma Tshering, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

“Edfora sells them a dream. A dream of making them 'The Next Richard Feynman'. We are anyways giving them an opportunity to reach more students than they ever imagined. This will give them a chance of self-evaluation and getting honest feedbacks and gain an insight into the student's minds and understand what they like and what they don't in teaching. Also, this will introduce them a whole new interface to display their skills and win accolades from our side on special events. Personal networks can be invoked and the special bonding with previous students can work as an incentive .” - Manas Avinash Pawar, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

“Students get everything they ever wanted. An online interface to learn something from the self-chosen teachers anytime, anyplace and any num-ber of times they want. I think this question is answered by the basic idea behind this company, the vision to revolutionize education by substi-tuting or supplementing the current learning methods by more effective ones.” - Manas Avi-nash Pawar, IIT Bombay (13-14 April, 2012)

What are benefits for students in becoming partners of Edfora?