After how the pandemic separated us from our near and dear ones over the past two years, I spent this December cherishing the presence of those I love most, rather than their presents, like I normally would do. I hope your holidays were similarly fulfilling, and that they—rather than the inevitable turbulence of life in the pandemic—are what you remember this year by.
Regardless of who you are, what you do or where your interests lie, it's nigh on impossible not to have been affected by the pandemic. My heart breaks for the people who lost their loved ones to the ravages of Covid's slowing but unceasing crawl. The entrepreneurs and workers who saw their dreams (and livelihoods) swallowed whole by Covid's uncertainty. And especially for our children, who have spent their formative years locked up at home, isolated from friends and extended family, and forced to reckon with life's unpredictability at such a tender age.
Today's yearender, is directly tied to that last group I mentioned—children. With Covid shuttering schools, education as we knew it was no longer fit for purpose. Everything had to shift online—classes, evaluation, tuition. And while the transition was jarring and often clumsy for students (especially the less privileged) and institutions alike, edtech firms quickly became the toast of the town.
In India, Byju's has gone from strength to strength. The Bengaluru-based startup is now the world's most valuable edtech, gobbling up its peers seemingly at will. Byju's is well on its way to becoming an education super app. Indian edtechs, of course, weren't the only ones making hay, allowing it to hit profitability.
In today's articles we at Mumbai Multimedia Studio go deep on 2021's edtech surge, the changes we've seen in traditional education systems, and what likely comes next for sure just wait and watch our new education system in 2022.