Funtoot to address Indian Education System’s ‘One Size Fit All’ Challenge

BANGALORE, India - Jan. 27, 2015 - PRLog -- Bengaluru, January 24, 2015: The degrading learning levels of students in Indian primary and elementary education is by far one of our greatest teaching failures. Reason being the homogeneous teaching method conducted in a single-track mode overlooking the wide variations in learning level among students in classroom teachings. This discourages the enjoyment of learning thereby resulting in shocking dropouts in rural schools and lesser grades and depression victims among urban ones. Despite Children having 100% access to primary education, a study by non-governmental organisation Chief Rights and You (CRY) found that the dropout rate among them was as high as 40%.

10th Annual Status of Education Report (ASER 2014) reported thatonly 50% class 5 students can read class 2 text topping it was poor mathematical ability which was a serious concern. In rural India, while in 2012, 26.3% of class 3 students could do a two digit subtraction, the figure has come down slightly to 25.3% in 2014. This pressing issue was the underlying theme of  funtoot’s ‘Personalized Training & Innovation’ workshop and panel discussion held today at Le Meridian Bengaluru participated by Padmashri Gowri Eshwaran, CEO,Global Education and Leadership Foundation along witheminent Indian academicians.

The pioneers in providing quality-learning solutions through intelligent machines, Edreams Edusoft Solutions introduced ‘funtoot’ in 2010 as an intelligent and adaptive personalized learning solutions aimed to improve the life of every child through disruptive technological innovations thereby enhancing teaching methodologies. It has deep knowledge of Maths for Grade 2-9 and Science 2-5 at present. Its super curriculum is capable of adjusting itself to new curriculum. Since inception, it has identified and resolved 4 million learning gaps automatically and has made 6 million learning interventions. Currently in use by over 120 top schools, it has benefited 50,000+ students in 50 cities/towns in India.

Speaking about funtoot, Mr. Girish Paranjpe, Chairman, eDreams Edusoft Pvt. Ltd, & Ex-CEO, Wipro opined, “Cutting edge technology combined with adaptive and predictive algorithms like funtoot can deeply accelerate a child performance related competence through a personalized learning journey with increased mastery of the fundamentals. Our program is aimed to help lay a stronger foundation towards creative problem solving”

On the initiative, Mr. Rajeev Pathak, CEO and Founder of funtoot said, “The event is our initiative to bring together teachers, school administrators and Government authorities to address the biggest challenge of quality learning and that how personalized learning can help improve every child’s life. The panel discussion and workshops are a part of our educational series which is conducted across the country to create equal learning opportunities for students across the country”

The interesting workshopshared how funtoot keeps teachers and parents informed about the progress, learning gaps, remedies and top issues of the students through its detailed analytics. It also detailed how the software uses dozens of algorithms around artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing to store knowledge inside itself besides touching upon engaging subjects like benefits of personalized tutoring and its contribution to enhance the students interest in the classroom and insights on the ‘Learning Gap’ in Indian students. The initiative was a clarion call made to change makers in education system to embrace their roles in this new paradigm of Personalized Learning.

Other eminent Indian academia as panelist included Dr. Vandana Lulla - Director, Podar International School, Mumbai; Mr. A. S. Sidhu - Principal, Saupin's School, Chandigarh, Dr. Prasad Rao - Chairman, Paramita Group of Schools, Telangana and Mr. L. V. Sehgal - Principal, Bal Bharti School, Delhi.

The event was organized as a part of funtoot’s educational series, a monthly initiative organized to engage the education community and help them cognize the seriousness of creative and innovative thinking in learning for kids.  It also gauges upon the newer technology that can support in evolving the problem solving skills of a kid thereby increasing their interest in various subjects of study.

About Edreams Edusoft Solutions-

eDreams Edusoft Private Limited is a Bangalore based education research Technology company. Established in 2010, it is a team of highly experienced individuals. eDreams Edusoft’ products are driven by innovations across technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, NLP and Speech processing. eDreams Edusoft were the winner of Bloomberg Pitch Award 2011-12, they were finalist at Marico Innovation Award 2012, and the flagship product Funtoot was also selected by Nasscom Social Innovation Foundation among the top 3 finalists for 2013. Currently company has presence across 50 cities and towns of India and used in 100+ schools by morethan 50, 000 students. eDreams Edusoft aims at improving life of every student globally through student-centric disruptive technology innovations. The company has introduced this technology in hybrid cloud computing model and it can be used in schools and homes.