E-Learning for Indian Students

Overview

The most under rated sector in eLearning is probably where you have to teach kids in regional languages. I was one of the very few students who wanted to study in my mother tongue upto +12 level. And first handely I found out that, there’s no help available for the students who are in Regional Language Medium. My project is to provide students with a video education system, preferably in their regional language (Bengali, Hindi, Oriya, Marathi etc.).

As every project has two or three stages, this project also has a couple of them.

Stage 1:

  1. Building the content library as much as possible. That means recording videos from teachers who are willing to contribute and also preparing some materials, like short notes, chapter gists. etc.
  2. Editing the videos, and planning the courses. Also, carefully curate the contents on a level base so that students won’t have any problems understanding the chapters. (This might be one of the most time consuming parts)
  3. Building the website and apps required to deliver the contents. Building the apps require resources and also extensive testing of them. This is also one time consuming step.

Stage 2:

  1. Testing the contents with actual students and taking feedback from them. How they like the contents and what can be improved to make it more suitable and pleasant.
  2. Testing the platform. Testing the platform on a local network also takes a lot of time, hopefully this will be the Closed Beta stage of the website and the apps.
  3. Releasing an open beta for both the website and the contents, carefully so that the contents doesn’t get misused.
  4. Marketing, some marketing is always necessary to make a project successful, just to let parents and students know that we are doing something like this might interest people more and we end up with a better product.

Stage 3:

  1. Deploying : Deploying the webapps and contents on a live server.
  2. Managing : Managing the whole finished project requires manpower and is equally hectic. Because problems arise in all projects.
  3. Making the community self sustaining is the ultimate goal of any project.

The project will be an open source project only if my backers agree to it, otherwise, until and unless I have the money to make the whole project open source, the project will be under a license and a copyright