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Monday, January 25, 2010
India's Education Challenge has Global Consequences - Tom Vander Ark, Huffington Post
While the face-to-face tutoring sector is well developed, there's not much online learning in India. Broadband penetration is very low. To reach the 250 million kids that Sandeep worries about, online learning will need to be part of the solution. Formats that blend online and onsite learning will extend quality secondary learning to tens of millions of middle income families. However, it is more challenging to imagine how to dramatically improve education in the $6 per month range. Edu-entrepreneur Harsh Seti suggests a $20 price point for instructional technology which seems low but I didn't think we'd have $200 netbooks in 2009. Meeting the educational needs of the worlds poor is both an execution challenge and an innovation challenge.
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