eLearning Today

The new government in India has selected education as its primary focus. It makes sense because it is probably a critical sector of governance that needs to be fixed. During 1960s, the focus was different, it was to secure the nation and have enough food supply to feed the huge population of India. Lal Bahadur Shastri epitomized it when he raised the slogan – Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan. In 1998, Atal Behari Vajpayee extended the slogan when he said Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan, Jai Vigyan after India conducted nuclear tests in May 1998 to celebrate the rise of Indian scientists. In between 1960 and 1998, there was another revolution which probably was not captured by the slogan; it was the opening up of the Indian economy by Finance Minister – Manmohan Singh . It was highly unpopular idea at the time, but it has made such a huge impact on India’s standing in the world. Today, we are amongst the fastest growing countries in the world. Probably the slogan should say Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan, Jai Vyapaar, Jai Vigyan.

This simple slogan captures the history of India after independence as succinctly as possible. It is about growth, it is about revolutionizing various sectors of governance one by one. The current government has selected education as its primary focus. It is a great endeavor and probably will have huge implications for education sector specifically and future generations generally. It is a daunting task with myriad of government institutions controlling the education sector, it is going to be a tough job to synchronize and harmonize the education sector to achieve the single goal – minimize vanilla courses and increase the quality of people coming out of education institutes. The answer may lie in using internet to achieve this goal. Internet is not just technology, it is a great tool to achieve accountability, efficiency and scale in any initiative – commercial or otherwise. Internet has revolutionized various sectors of economy. No matter what business one is in, internet is making everybody change. Everything is going online.

We at BigGyan believe that eLearning (education enhanced using power of internet) has in its power to help achieve this goal. Our mission is to reboot education. eLearning helps improve the education delivery to students, manage the administrative tasks and in general to bring an overall accountability and professionalism into the system. Using eLearning the whole education system can be synchronized, harmonized and rebooted.

I think it is time to extend the slogan further Jai Jawan, Jai Kissan, Jai Vyapaar, Jai Vigyan, Jai BigGyan!!!