About Educomp

Educomp was founded in 1994 by Mr. Shantanu Prakash.

It provides information technology enabled solutions (ITES) to students,
parents and schools.
It serves the K-12 segment in India as well as in other countries like US,
Singapore, China and Sri Lanka.
27 offices worldwide including an office in Canada, 20 in India, two in
Singapore, one in Sri Lanka, and three in the United States.In addition,
the Company operates through its various subsidiaries including
authorGEN, Threebrix eServices, Learning.com, AsknLearn Pte Ltd,
Singapore and via its associates such as Savvica in Canada.
Educomp Group reaches out to over 21,000 schools and 10.99mn
learners and educators across the world

It has a diverse product portfolio and these are some of the product offerings
:
Smartclass
o Digital modules and lessons
o 2D/2D animations, graphics, audio and video
o Explained difficult topics with graphics and clarity
o Resulted in greater student-teacher interaction and class
participation
Roots to Wings
o Provides children with a culturally sound environment, values,
love and protection
o Developed for 2-5 year olds
o High quality learning standards
Mathguru
o Innovative math help program
o Provides solution to student problems in an easy to understand
manner

o Uses a pen and virtual notebook

WizIQ
o SaaS based online education platform
o Connects educators and learners for live and self paced courses
o Comprehensive Learning Management System, Virtual Classroom
and Marketplace
o Uses advanced technologies of Microsoft.net, SQL Server
Raffles Millenium Minter
o Design training Institute offering world class courses in creative
arts, design, lifestyle and business management
o Aiming to introduce courses in tourism and hospitality
management
o Addresses the needs of private schools, government schools, pre
schools, professional and higher education
Learning hour
o Largest provider of tutoring services in India
o Used by thousands of students in the Middle East
o Offers complete suite of assistant services to students across the
world
o Main services are : Academic assistance, Test preparation,
Application assistance
Learning hub
o Provides career counselling and admission guidance
o Offers application assistance and complete guidance to
admission in Top schools in streams such as Engineering and
Management
Magikeys
o Allows millions of Government school students to surf the web,
email, chat and write documents in their mother tongue
o Provides a user-friendly, Indian language, Online Word Processor,
with virtual keyboard
o Powerful tool to improve typing capabilities in Indian languages
The Millenium School
o Using the most advanced audio, visual and kinaesthetic learning
techniques, MLS makes education effortless and effective
o Uses Smartclass learning technology
o The Millennium Schools are known for their academic excellence,
sports facilities and co-curricular activities

Educomp offers services in B2B, Retail and Consulting

B2B Division ( products are- Smart Class, ICT, Professional
Development Product)
Retail and Consulting (products are Mathguru, ETEN, Millenium
Schools,TMS, Vidhya Prabhat schools, learninghour.com, learnhub, RTW
and Euro Kids)
Some of its B2B Products are :
SMART CLASS
o Aimed at private schools
o Used sources such as graphics,3d images and video clips along
with traditional chalk board method of teaching. This helped in
visualizing things better with the help of graphical representation
o Smartclass Rolling Digiboard system was used to convert classes
into smart classrooms. The system was connected to the pc in
the classroom which in turn was connected to the knowledge
center of the school.
o Teachers used pc in the classroom to access content from the
knowledge center
o Smart Assessment System was used to frame mcqs. Hand held
remote device was used to answer them
o BOOT Model
Instructional And Computing Technology
o Served government schools through ICT which was renamed as
Edureach in 2008
o It is the second largest business segment of Educomp which
contributed 22.7% of sales and 10.3% of gross margins for 200809
o Content was developed in regional language and those topics
were selected which could be best explained using multimedia
o BOOT Model
Professional Development
o Offered training to private and government schools for using ITeS
o Trained over 1.4 mn teachers by the end of 2008-09
o Partnered with cos like Wipro and Microsoft and with NGOS for
executing teacher training program across India
o This sector contributed 5.7% of sales and 7.12% of gross profit
margin of educomp for 2008-09

Some of its Retail and Consulting division Products are :

RTW AND EURO KIDS

TMS,VIDHYA PRABHAT
LEARNING HOUR
MATHGURU
LEARN HUB
ETEN

STRATEGIES :
EDUCOMP recognized scope and opportunity for providing IT Enabled
learning solutions in Indian schools in mid 90s. Initially it concentrated
on increasing awareness of computers among students and teachers.
EDUCOMP has two subsidiaries

EDUINFRA
EDUMANAGE

EDUCOMP deployed a trained program administrator at every school

that implemented Smart class
Smart Assessment System (SAS) was available for teachers so that
they could frame multiple choice questions to assess students
BOOT MODEL ( Build Own Operate Transfer )
It focused on acquisitions, acquired equity stakes in global companies
like Learning.com, Ask n learn pte ltd,to expand its smart class product
globally.
For govt. schools , they adopted PPP strategy and also provided
content in regional languages..
They partnered with WIPRO & MICROSOFT and many NGOS for
executing its teacher training program.
It followed franchising route to expand preschools.
It handled issue of lack of good faculties at smaller locations by VSAT
enabled learning centers.

THE ROAD AHEAD

EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
TeacherKit is a personal organizer for the teacher which enables to
organize classes and students
Moodle is Learning Management System for the delivery of e-learning
education courses.
SchoolTube is the best source for videos from students and teachers
everywhere

 ClassDOJO is a classroom behavior management tool share data with

parents and administrators
Edmodo is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize
the classroom for each and every learner
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos
anywhere and share them easily

Collaboration 2.0
Online Calendars
Social Networking Sites
Social Bookmarking Sites
Wikis
Document Sharing
Blogs
Benefits :
Distance
Ability to work at either the same or different time as collaborators
Inexpensive
Can use multiple computers
Areas of usage :
Blogs
Wikis
Training
Social Networks