Learning in the times of COVID-19

E-Learning has shown tremendous growth over the past decade. However, with the COVID-19 eruption, it's become more basic in people’s lives than ever before. The COVID 19 has compelled schools, colleges, and universities to distance working, and this has staggeringly increased the usage of E-Learning.

In addition to K12 and test preparation, platforms for acquisition and skill development are demand during COVID 19 eruption. The highest tier universities also are standardizing the training by making the course available online.
There is an enormous demand for people to find out online. Even before the pandemic markets forecast that the E-Learning industry may be a hundred billion dollars market. In step with the KPMG report, the India Edtech market is worth over Rs.15000 crore now.
The lockdown has provided an enormous opening to the E-Learning companies that to induce in additional students and spread knowledge. In step with a report by BARC India and Nielson, there has been a 30% increase within the time spent on education apps since the lockdown started.\
The top-performing segment within the India E-Learning industry
The Indian E-Learning education market is classed into 5 major segments. consistent with Google EdTech Summit 2020, huge demand is coming in from users in each of the segment and that they are all expected to work out huge growth over the subsequent few years. COVID 19 has done only good to online education and it's now advancing at a faster pace in 2020.
The five major segments within the Indian E-Learning market and their growth are given below

•  Primary and secondary supplement education -60%
•  Exam preparation -64%
•  Upskilling and online certification- 38%
•   Higher education -41%
•  Language and casual learning -42%

The current scenario in several E-Learning segment in India

According to Google EdTech Summit 2020, the doorway test segment contains a major hike within the last few months, while other segments like K12 and skills have also seen a rise in demand. it's said that within the K12 segment, NCERT has seen an enormous jump within the last three months with more queries around class 9, 10, 11, and 12 books. Most of the activities are around JEE and NEET test preparation. within the test preparation segment, administrative and bank exam queries are said to be increasing because of the postponement of SSC-CGL exams.

New players within the market

Along with E-Learning giants like BYJU’s and Unacademey, many other budding E-learning companies have also started and are empowering the academic institutions, students and working-class within their capacity

Few new players within the market are

•  EduBrisk: it's a brain-friendly educational solutions platform for schools and students have started their classroom to virtual classroom program that allows schools to administer live within 24 hours. EduBrisk has been implemented in 30 schools since the lockdown started and are progressing to implement in 150-200 new schools within the following school year.
• Classroom. Live: Unthinkable solutions LLP launched classroom. Live, an education delivery platform that enables teachers and students to attach from the comfort of their homes. The platform started in mid-April 2020 and within some weeks, it reached 40000 students from over 75 schools and institutions.
• IntelliPaat: it's a pioneer within the online training industry that has online professional training courses and certification platforms with pan India offering for professionals and corporates. The platform provides over 150 courses for professionals globally with 1000 trainers onboard.
•  Suraasa: it's a one-stop solution for in-service and pre-service teacher education. Suraasa offers a graduate-level teaching qualification program that aspiring teachers can undertake online.
•   Talerang: it's a number one organization that provides customized career training to students and professionals to make work-ready and skilled professionals in India. Over 90% of Talerang students are rated work ready by employers.

Popular Online Courses in India

Online MBA, Big Data &Business analytics, Digital Marketing, and Programming remains the foremost popular courses learned online by Indians. Here are a number of the courses with are popular

Online MBA in India

·         Online MBA by ICFAI

·         Online MBA by Symbiosis

·         Online MBA by IGNOU

·         Online MBA by Amity University

·         Online MBA by Sikkim Manipal University

Big Data and Business Analytics :

·         Big data by Coursera

·         Big data by EdX

·         Big data by Lynda

·         Big data by Udemy

Digital Marketing :

·         Digital Marketing course by NIIT

·         Digital Marketing course by Digital Vidya

·         Digital Marketing course by Manipal Global Education

·         Digital Marketing course by AIMA

Programming Courses :

·         Computer programming by EdX

·         Free programming courses by Alison

·         Programming courses by Coursera

·         Online programming courses by Lynda

·         Web development and programming by Udemy

Putting it altogether India has great potential and opportunities within the educational technology sector with a rising young population, increasing internet penetration, and acceptance of online learning as a price effective-channel.