Education Innovation

iDream Education bridges the digital divide for rural students

It works with students in rural areas providing Learning Tablets and smart learning devices.

iDream Learning App is a personalized, enjoyable and multilingual learning platform especially designed for government schools and underserved students who learn in local languages.

The content works offline and the student’s learning data auto syncs to a central reporting dashboard whenever the tablets connect to a network.

iDream Education is a social ed-tech startup with a vision to facilitate easy access to enjoyable & personalised digital learning to all learners in the language they understand best and irrespective of their location, social, cultural or economic status.

They work with govt schools, NGOs, CSR foundations and directly with last mile rural students to deliver local language digital content via mobile and tablets.

Very core to their work is to offer a single platform that serves all learning and growth needs of students. They bring together multiple categories of content from multiple sources – animated videos, DIY STEM projects, digital books, assessments and life skill videos with an aim to build a proactive interest in students to learn and offer to them an enjoyable, non-judgemental learning environment.

Product Summary:

iDream Learning App is a personalized, enjoyable and multilingual learning platform especially designed for government schools and underserved students who learn in local languages.

Key Features:

  • It offers rich content including video lessons, digital books, projects & practice questions
  • Covers all major subjects for classes 1st to 12th
  • It enables students to cover up their learning gaps with a provision to access learning content of junior classes anytime
  • The platform offers content in both english medium, hindi medium and other local languages including Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya and more.

Learning Tablets: If availability of internet is a challenge, the above digital content can be delivered offline to students preloaded on the learning tablets. The content works offline and the student’s learning data auto syncs to a central reporting dashboard whenever the tablets connect to a network.

TABLAB – Smart ICT Lab for Government Schools: This is an integrated tablet based Smart ICT and digital learning lab custom designed for government schools and NGO learning centres. It consists of tablets, multiple categories of local language content aligned to state boards, storage and a charging rack and student wise reports recorded & saved offline and periodically synced to a cloud based dashboard.

PC Free Smart Class for Government Schools: Designed to heavily simplify hardware set up and usage in government schools, this is single equipment smart class consisting of an interactive flat panel display, a smart TV and a pen drive plugged in with offline digital content.

Info on promoters and their background:

Rohit Prakash and Puneet Goyal, both founders are batchmates from their business school MDI Gurgaon, and both had a common love to serve learning and growth needs in school education, especially the underserved rural students.

Before starting iDream Education, both the founders worked in the school education space for more than five years and during that time both had an opportunity to work closely with government schools. That is when they realized that rural students who learn in local languages, have little access to quality digital content. Availability of local language content and easy to use digital learning hardware were the two gaps very evident.

Social impact:

Access to digital learning in their mother tongue can empower millions of rural learners and open up tremendous growth with social inclusion and equal opportunities.

Awards and recognition:

  • iDream Education has been awarded by Google India under SMB Heroes for “Impacting Change through Digital” in 2017
  • Awarded by Yes Foundation as one of the top 25 social organizations in India 2018
  • Received the Special Chairperson Mention Award at mBillionth eNGO Awards 2020
  • iDream Education is a content partner to DIKSHA – The Ministry of Education’s national education platform
  • iDream Education has facilitated digital education access to more than 800 government schools and over 2,50,000 students across 16 states in India with CSR, NGOs and Govt Projects in tablets, Smart Classes and Learning App customized for State Boards.

 

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