Project Category : Best Innovation in Open and Distance Learning for K-12 and Higher Education
Details of Applicant :
Name : Ridhi Drolia
Address : 303 – Tanishka, Akurli Cross Road, Off. Western Express Highway, Kandivali – e
City : Mumbai
State : Maharashtra
Country : INDIA
Zip Code : 400101
Details of Project/Implementing Agency :
Name of Organisation : Marss Education Private Limited
Address : 303 – Tanishka, Akurli Cross Road, Off. Western Express Highway, Kandivali – e
City : Mumbai
State : Maharashtra
Country : INDIA
Zip Code : 400101
Name of the head of Organisation : Ridhi Drolia
Brief description of the programme/project/Initiative :
Marss Education Private Limited, is dedicated towards bringing a new era
of digital education. Marss, through its various initiatives like the
Indian Management Institute, is committed to work with Indian
Universities and build digital courses and curriculum to meet the
demands of the industry. The courses, the pedagogy, the methodology and
the content, produced by the Indian Management Institute, are
contemporary, relevant, practical, industry aligned and deep rooted.
Indian Management Institute, promoted by Marss, is one of the first
institutes of India to bring virtual education to the Indian students.
Marss has worked diligently to ensure that all the students of the
University, subscribing for these digital courses, shall have access to a
uniform standard of teaching using digital tools and mediums. Marss has
ensured a right mix of textual material and audio visual tools to
ensure a global standard of education for its students. Usage of the
right mix of technology and various other teaching mediums, Marss has
brought in the true inclusiveness into Indian education. The Online
Learning platform of Marss, complete with a host of audio-visual content
provides an excellent flexible learning platform to the students.
Students of IMI, learning their course on their web browsers and also on
their Mobile phone through the dedicated application.
Why was the project started :
• Bringing in true social inclusion by introducing uniform standards of
education • Contemporary pedagogy – closer to the needs of the society •
A cutting edge technology platform for students • Quality education –
at affordable cost
Objective :
To give contemporary knowledge to a
working professional at his convenience and help him to accelerate in
his career through quality education – anytime, anywhere.
Target group :
Working Professionals and Fresh Graduates
Please Specify reach within India : All over the country – Web driven
Date from which the project became operational : 03/01/2011
Is the Project still operational : YES
10 points that make the programme/project innovative?
- Anywhere, Anytime, Any Device Study
- Amalgamation of, convenience & knowledge – Blended Learning.
Blended Learning = Online Learning (convenience) & Face-to-Face
Learning (Knowledge).
- Next Generation Portal (NGP): The concept of NGP is designed to
create a smart and a dedicated web-learning interface where the teaching
and the learning processes intermingle freely and openly.
- Audio/Video Lectures: A/V Lectures allows a working professional to learn a new concept in 5 minutes.
- Notes & PPTs: Notes & PPTs are designed by the professors.
- Associate with Excellence: Best works of national and international
academic scholars, professors, lecturers, management professionals and
gurus are well stocked and regularly updated for students.
- Mobile learning – Students access the content on their web enabled smart phones
- Encourages peer-to-peer learning through usage of blogs / forums / chats
- Facilitates easier communication with academic guides through dedicated helpline / mails
- Access to webcast / podcast of industry faculty lectures / interviews
List the 5 achievements of the programme/project?
- Standardization of education from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
Successfully overcame the barrier of geographical reach. This was
possible due to the ‘online medium of learning’
- The chat / forums encourage students to be more innovative and creative
- Blended Learning Concept helped to lessen the ‘effectiveness’ gap between face-to-face Education & Distance Learning.
- Students are able to manage their work-life-study balance at their convenience
- In less than a year, 500 working professionals embraced blended learning.
List the 5 key challenges faced while implementing the programme/project/initiative :
- Challenge: lack of penetration of computers. Solution: We offered
free laptops or tablets to the students with course enrollment, to
overcome the above limitation.
- Challenge: Acceptance of the fact that online education could
upgrade once knowledge and thinking. Solution: Usage of online content
was made mandatory & internal assessment was linked to online study.
Same helped in driving traffic and made students realize that the
learning could be so easy.
- Challenge: Will online study add value to the resume of working
professional? Solution: To overcome this limitation, IMI is providing
university degree to its students, so that it holds value in the market.
Also, IMI is providing placement assistance to its students.
- Challenge: How to provide online content to students to make it
available to them from anywhere, at anytime & from any device?
Solution: We provided the learning from Next Generation Portal (LMS).
Same allows one to access learning material from computer, laptop,
tablets, mobile phone and any other internet enabled device.
- Challenge: Low penetration of Broadband. Solution: we provided tablets with preloaded content.
List the 5 points how can the programme serve as a model that can be replicated or adapted by others?
- Proper analysis of the bottle-neck in the process is must.
- Find the technological solution of the bottle-neck, as the entire world is diverting to technology.
- Adapt technology that is user-friendly and which gives convenience to the customer.
- Make the technology accessible from anywhere.
- Make the technology accessable at any time.
List 5 points to elaborate on the scalability of the programme/project/initiative :
- Tie-up with more NGOs to serve the nation. IMI has tied-up with NGOs
to serve the society and provide knowledge to the people who can’t
afford education.
- Spreading this affordable technological course to rural India and
teach farming to the farmers in their regional language, so that they
understand the concepts in a better way.
- Empower and enable every underprivileged child with knowledge to make positive difference in their life.
- Adding more course line at IMI, thus increasing the target scope
- Taking the courses beyond the geographical boundaries of India and offering it to the international audience.
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