Nationwide learning initiative
The Lead School achieved a key milestone this month when it signed up its 500th partner school in a nationwide learning partnership initiative.
The aim is to make international quality education accessible and affordable to children through its integrated system. It is achieving its goal through extensive research and benchmarking with global best practices and curriculums.
Lead School co-founder-CEO Sumeet Mehta said: “Quality schooling in India is limited to the top 3,000 schools mostly in metros and tier 1 cities. The problem is acute in affordable schools in tier II-IV towns where more than 100 million students study. We are focused on bringing excellent learning in affordable prices to such towns. The integrated system of teaching-learning is proven to improve outcomes in these schools.”
Customised and Purposeful Learning
The Udemy has announced the launch of learning paths, a new feature for Udemy for Business customers to curate customised learning experiences. Learning Paths help employees, teams, and functional leads reach their learning goals more efficiently and effectively by enabling anyone to curate the right combination of Udemy for Business courses, external materials, or proprietary company resources.
Irwin Anand, MD, Udemy India said: “At Udemy for Business, we believe there are many ways to extend the impact of learning at organisations. With the launch of Learning Paths, anyone can easily share and socialise learning to unlock knowledge across all levels and all employees. Learning Paths help our customers deliver learning outcomes with powerful course recommendations, reach learning goals faster by selecting relevant portions of a course, and access resources more easily in one central location.”
These courses represent the highest quality and in-demand courses For increased personalisation, learning path creators can choose to include specific course sections.
LPU Students Win national level Hackathon
Shivanshu Mathur and Raghav Jain, pursuing BTech in Computer Science Engineering at Lovely Professional University have won second prize at NEC India Hackathon 2019 organised by HackerEarth.
The winners received a cash prize of `1.5 lakh for developing Medikare, a software that can predict the disease with which a patient may be afflicted with, by using machine learning algorithms on the reported symptoms and test reports of the patient. NEC is also expected to consider the winning idea, for commercialisation.
At an advanced level, this software has the potential to save a lot of doctor time that goes into reading reports and suggesting a diagnosis. For now, it can be an extremely relevant tool for doctors who might want to run the patient diagnostic test results by the software to ensure match with their diagnosis.
It will also provide the doctors with a larger list of potential diseases that a patient may be suffering from, some of which they may not have even considered.