https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/ Recent content in Journalism on cube Hugo -- gohugo.io en CC BY 4.0 Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-29-dnd-calls/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-29-dnd-calls/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Nearly 15 years after setting up the National Do Not Call Registry (NDNC), subscribers continue to be pestered by telemarketing calls The demand for subscriber contact details has even spawned a thriving industry of data brokers who trade subscribers’ details to telemarketers https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-04-skillshare/ Mon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-04-skillshare/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Skillshare is the latest entrant in India’s creative learning market. The 12-year-old company has over 13 million registered users globally Skillshare is partnering with popular Indian creators like illustrator Alicia Souza, while also offering huge discounts and free trials to attract users https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-03-15-aicte-heci/ Tue, 15 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-03-15-aicte-heci/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Established in 1945 to improve the quality of technical education in India, AICTE’s authority has expanded, often at the expense of the autonomy of engineering colleges AICTE’s reach is so thorough that engineering colleges have been restricted in much of their operations from curriculum design to interdisciplinary research https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-22-hasura/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-04-22-hasura/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary In February, Hasura became the first open source business out of India to turn unicorn Being an open source business, the company’s core product is available for anyone to use without paying Hasura a cent Hasura has built a strong community of contributors that fix bugs, build new features, and even help improve the documentation https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-22-lead-schools/ Tue, 22 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-22-lead-schools/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary In the last two years, LEAD has expanded from 600 partner schools to nearly 5,000; it raised $100 million recently, becoming a unicorn in the process Teachers are the centre of its plans to digitise classrooms—by removing the management and lesson planning headache, LEAD lets them focus on teaching https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-08-coding-edtech/ Tue, 08 Feb 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-02-08-coding-edtech/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Coding education in India is in the midst of a boom with the addressable market is pegged at ~20 million students Along with growth, challenges like homogeneity of offerings, inaccessible products, and low quality teaching have plagued the industry The classroom size and the role of the instructor need needs to be reevaluated for coding education to expand https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-01-05-amazon-academy/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2022-01-05-amazon-academy/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary Amazon is the latest edtech entrant in India, with its eye on the engineering and medical test prep market, and beyond The company is taking a no-frills approach to teaching and relying on data to organise, personalise, and present the content better https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2021-12-08-niti-byjus/ Wed, 08 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://apero.thedataareclean.com/blog/the-ken/2021-12-08-niti-byjus/ Note: This article was originally published on The Ken website and is subject to their copyright terms and conditions. Summary The $20 billion edtech giant Byju’s has set its sight on the public education system in India. It has a willing partner in NITI Aayog Byju’s wants to target students in India’s most developmentally challenged states; its products aren’t a great fit for the audience