Srijan Academy
21st century relevant online Life Skills learning platform for students & common people of India.
Our solution is an online learning platform which provides personalise, easy & affordable practical life skills courses for students & common people of India.
We are creating a marketplace where students, learners and common people can easily learn as well as up skill themselves on timely basis in this fast changing world.
We have identified that the majority of students in India (specially rural which is 70% of total) are not able to build practical and 21st century relevant skills.
The scale of the problem is very huge. It is spread across India and the world, 100 Million+ rural students & people are effected with the lack of life skills problem.
More Theoretical & outdated educational curriculum, preparing for fear of examination not love for learning, lack of good guidance & mentors. This are the femain factors contributing to the problem in our community.
Stats & Links
More Than 50% Of Indian Youth Will Not Have Skills For 21st Century Jobs: UNICEF
Life skills not taught in classrooms: Survey
Our solution serve to the rural students 13 to 25 years old. They are young school & college students. This students have not access to practical life skills & 21st century relevant education. They are getting more theoretical & outdated education curriculum. Due to this many youth & teenagers are moving towards drugs, crime, suicide etc.
Our Solution will address their needs by providing holistic, character building & man making education by providing world class curriculum, resources & mentorship.
We have researched, interviewed and organised many focus groups to better understand the needs of the users. Yes i have volunteered with exiting organisations such as SchoolHouse.world etc.
Yes, we are also actively engaging with potential users in the design & development of our solution.
- Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)
- Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model
Till now we done have researched on the problem. Currently we are working on developing our prototyping our solution.
Now we have built our MVP (minimum viable product) website with basic features and testing it with students & learners and getting initial feedback.
Check out our website here https://www.srijanacademy.in/
- A new use of an existing technology (e.g. application to a new problem or in a new location)
I truly believe in this quote on using technology in our solution is
“Technology alone will not improve education, but it can be a powerful part of the solution.”~ Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google
The Core technology that empowers our solution is WEB. Our Solution is to build an online skill learning platform. We think that Web Application technology would be more feasible & scalable option.
We believe that in order to serve our users. we have to choose right technology keeping users in the heart.
For future we will also use technology like Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence etc. for security, personalised learning and solving educational problems.
- Software and Mobile Applications
- India
Currently we are building & testing our solution. We plan to serve 10000 users in the next year.
Helping 10000+ rural students & youth of our community in learning lifeskills and 21st century relevant education in 2022.
We believe that measuring impact goals is very important for an organisation. this is how we would plan to measure our progress towards impact goals
- We will always keep our eye on stats.
- We will be open for all types of feedback & responses of our users.
- We will organise interviews & focus groups with users to measure the impact.
- Technical: As our solution is an fully online learning platform. I am first time founder facing many barriers & challenging in building a successful online platform from choosing right tech stack, to hiring developers & designers etc.
- Financial: As I am student founder it gets hard in managing the finances. We are at prototyping stage & we are struggling with raising as well as managing the finances.
The Idea of building a life skill learning platform for rural students started in my high school days. I was too struggling badly with stress & anxiety. I remember it was great help for me when I taken a online course on Yoga by former NASA Scientist and great yogi HR Nagendra Ji on SWAYAM platform.
After that MOOC, i realised that true practical education is missing in our curriculum and not accessible to common people. Then i started brainstorming, researched and come up with the Srijan Academy Idea.
Currently I am an engineering student at CTAE Udaipur, passionate about technology & entrepreneurship to solve the problem of society. I am also volunteering at SchoolHouse.World Founded by Sal Khan (Founder of Khan Academy)
I believe in the together we can philosophy. Improving the learning outcomes and providing quality education to everyone is not the role of any one organisations.
Currently we are using the world class content of organisations like Khan Academy, Code.org, Sikana.tv, MIT Opencourse Ware etc. provided under creative commons in building our life skills courses & curriculum.
In future we are also looking to partner with many educational Orgs, NGOs & Governments in order to improve & spread education.
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As our Solution is for rural students & common people,this also includes empowering rural girls & women with 21st century life skills & holistic education.
Education & Skills will improve quality of life for women and girls in rural India.
Our team will use The Pozen Social Innovation Prize to build better educational services specially for the half population.
Founder
