Making Education Accessible - ChalkStreet introduces courses in Hindi and Tamil
In a bid to revolutionize online learning, ChalkStreet has introduced courses in Hindi and Tamil apart from the regular courses in English. With Telugu and Kannada courses in the making, this website is opening up new avenues for e-learners in 2016. India is the second largest eLearning market of the world. With a projected growth rate of 17.4% and an expected total worth of $40 billion between 2013 and 2018 (according to the UK-India Business Council Report), this industry has a great future in our industry. Even though India sits at a dismal 16% in terms of Internet penetration, it is still the third largest market by Internet users only after China and USA. ELearning gives India an opportunity to look at education from a different perspective. For long, we have relied on educational institutions and private tutors to help us with our studies. Schools, colleges and universities rarely provide you with personalized attention whereas private tutors are often quite expensive. Learning through online courses allows students to get focussed attention at no or very little cost. While eLearning is still growing and can possibly never eliminate the need for a school, it opens up several other avenues for the Indian learner. ELearning is, in fact, one of the greatest levellers in terms of education. It brings world-class content to the doorstep of every person who has access to the internet irrespective of whether they are in one of the country’s foremost metros or in some unknown town in a corner of the nation. It exposes a youngster from a small town to world-class course material at the click of a button just as it teaches a marketing executive about SEO from the comfort of his office cubicle. ChalkStreet has used this opportunity to completely change the way we look at eLearning as well. The start up founded by IIM graduates firmly believes in the fact that learning is a right and not a privilege. Hence, language should never be a constraint in gaining education. With the aim of attracting students from smaller towns and cities who might not have a very good grasp on English, the regional language courses will make eLearning and a host of courses available to them. 23 courses are currently available in regional languages on ChalkStreet. The most popular course is a step by step tutorial on Indian Classical Music vocals which has 559 learners and is taught in Hindi. The Python Programming basics for the impatient learner (Hindi) and Programming with Java - Start building applications in under 2 hours (Tamil) are the two other top courses with 205 and 226 learners respectively. They go on to prove that there is a requirement for computer and programming language courses in vernaculars. With the value of a person’s professional expertise going up with the knowledge of these programming languages, even those who are not comfortable with English wants to learn them and ChalkStreet brings this opportunity to them. ChalkStreet has also come up with courses for learning regional languages like Kannada and Tamil. With a huge influx of people from different parts of the country moving into the Southern states, the need to learn the basics of the local language is becoming a necessity. With ChalkStreet’s free tutorials, anyone can master enough of a regional language to communicate on a daily basis. The courses in vernacular languages are receiving a very positive response with a phenomenal amount of takers especially for the ones in programming. With this effort, ChalkStreet is bringing about a whole new dimension to learning through the internet. This is what we believe the beginning of a new era in online education with the much-needed advent of regional language as a medium of instruction. Join us in making learning a lifestyle! Visit us and register to teach and learn on ChalkStreet
