Nice Studying to launch on-line undergraduate programmes in finance, know-how

Ed-tech agency Nice Studying that focused totally on skilled schooling is now venturing into programmes core schooling. The seven-year-old, Gurugram-based firm will launch three-year on-line undergraduate programmes within the subsequent two-three months.

Mohan Lakhamraju, CEO and Co-founder, Nice Studying mentioned they’ll first deal with ‘onerous’ disciplines akin to enterprise, finance, commerce, arithmetic, economics and technology-related undergraduate diploma programmes. After that, they’ll launch programmes in allied well being science, legislation and humanities. “This prioritisation is predicated on the course content material that we have already got and constructing on to that specialisation first,” he says.

He provides that the programmes can be in partnership with increased schooling universities. “The partnership can be with progressive and like-minded universities which might be able to take the leap, as not each college has organisational functionality or management inclination to supply increased schooling on-line,” he says.

These can be three-year programmes and can be provided by means of on-line solely or by means of the blended mannequin, which can be a mixture of on-line lectures and classroom educating. The share of on-line and offline will rely upon the character of the programme, he says.

Lakhamraju provides, “The main focus can be extra on blended studying as a result of at undergraduate degree social interplay is a crucial a part of the training course of and college students at this age learn to cope with friends. We can be totally different progressive fashions on constructing this within the curriculum.”

Earlier Indian universities and schools, as a result of authorities laws, could not provide greater than 20 per cent of their curriculum on-line. It was solely not too long ago that the federal government eliminated this threshold and allowed India’s prime 100 universities (as per the Nationwide Institutional Rating Framework) to supply undergrad programmes on-line.

Throughout COVID-19, as universities have been struggling to supply on-line studying to their college students, Nice Studying opened up its personal digital platform ‘Olympus Digital Campus’ to them on a subscription foundation. The platform isn’t just about delivering stay lectures but additionally about bringing all the establishment on-line. It helps stay studying, proctored exams, sensible time tables, assessments, grading, peer collaborations, content material improvement, pupil progress monitoring / engagement, and school suggestions. It additionally gives full administration administration from course and batch planning to making ready marks sheets and certificates, monitoring attendance and recording pupil suggestions. By way of Olympus, Nice Studying has already delivered 25 million hours of studying for 100,000-plus learners from 80 nations.