The first online school of India has been launched in the Millenium city of Gurugram in Delhi-NCR. Known as Cyboard School, the salient feature of the virtual school is a hybrid model of delivery encompassing a mix of online classes which will be followed by physical camps spread over 30 days in a year and city-level interactions. The school targets enrolment of about 5000 students in Classes I to III by the end of March 2021.
A brainchild of two serial entrepreneurs and visionaries —Rajat Singhal, Co-Founder & CEO, and Kunal Singhal, Co-Founder & CTO, the model aims to overcome the drawbacks in conventional K-12 education, including lack of personalised learning, lack of requisite infrastructure and good teachers, limited student-teacher interaction and increased dependence on tuitions and impart futuristic education to students through expert faculty members, irrespective of any geographical barriers.
“The online K-12 segment is projected to be nearly 3.7 times its existing size of $1.16 billion by 2025. The pandemic has underscored the significance of digitisation across sectors and education is no exception,” said Singhal.
