India's 10 Best EdTech Companies to Watch, 2021

Yashwanth has decided to apply the same AI technologies
in personalized learning.
“At the core of personalization lies ‘Knowledge Graph’:
A technology that is used by all tech giants. A Knowledge
Graph is like the internet of knowledge. Millions of atomic
knowledge units (concepts) interconnected with
relationships. This lays the robust foundation needed for AI
to propagate,” says Yashwanth.
His team at Edwisely is harnessing the power of data
science.
“Our aim is to connect, collaborate, and co-create future
workforce by addressing pain points of all the stakeholders
– educators (knowledge providers), students (knowledge
seekers) and industry (knowledge consumers).” explains Y
S Rao, the other Co-founder of Edwisely who had been
with the industry for more than 32 years and hired large
batches of entry-level employees.
YS Rao contributes to building the industry side of the
product, Role-competency matrix, career to curriculum
mapping, and accelerating the placements with validated
student learning and assessment analytics. This will
facilitate the companies hiring - qualified, skilled, and
knowledgeable students' data meeting their job descriptions
across the colleges saving lots of time and effort. The entire
activities related to screening, profiling, shortlisting, and
qualifying can be shortened to hours with validated data
points. YS Rao brings his expertise to Edwisely by forging
all key partnerships with academia and industry.
They raised the notion of transforming higher education
institutions into AI-powered learning campuses. Further, the
team also wanted the end customers to experience the
vision of AI transformation through premium user interface
and personalized interactions within the product. To achieve
the same, they went to India's best design company to uplift
the UI/UX and to make the user experience the value
proposition.
Institutions that are looking to new-age learning, should
start thinking beyond regular LMS (learning management
systems) or ERP (enterprise resource management)
systems. Most of these technologies that colleges and
universities are currently using are just used as convenience
tools for administrative purposes and for few academic
activities. They don't bring in a real value proposition to
either faculty or students, in terms of making learning more
purposeful and engaging. Today, with the increased
technology adoption rate, institutions should aim for
futuristic technologies that can bring in a significant impact
in day-to-day education, rather than going back to regular
standardised technology platforms.
These helped Edwisely reach out to 1000+ colleges in the
span of 6 months, starting from October 2020. Various
education veterans, vice-chancellors and institutional heads
started acknowledging Edwisely's mission, its products, and
the unique value proposition it brings to the institutions. A
strong product-market fit has been established, being the
only company in India that brings personalized learning
technology to higher education institutions.
Changing the Game: The 'What’
Innovative learning science models with the intervention of
technology, unlocks the future of education. Personalization
in education using AI majorly depends on the multi-faceted
learning approach for each concept.
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