| | FEBRUARY 20208Since time immemorial, we have been acclimatised to attain our educational goals through classroom-based learn-ing, which is majorly based on a theoretical exam-driven system. From the very childhood, this ar-chaic system pushes us to focus on scoring well, instead of practically understanding the concepts. How-ever, now that this belief is chang-ing with the advent of various on-line learning tools, educators are rapidly adopting online learning pedagogies, which involve a right mix of offline as well as online learning techniques. Today's educators are com-pletely aware of the fact that the 21st century student is no longer receptive to the practice of offline learning, which limits them to text-books and classrooms. Rather, they prefer online channels that are easily accessible and give them a much wider choice of self-learning. According to a recent KPMG re-port, the online education industry is anticipated to gain a user base of $9.6 million by 2021 as compared to $1.6 million in 2016. In fact, the scope of online learning is not only limited to school and competitive exams but has gone beyond these bound-aries. A large number of online THOUGHT LEADERSHIPTOP EDUTECH TRENDS TO RULE INDIA'S VIRTUAL LEARNING SPACE IN 2020By Akhand Swaroop Pandit, Founder & CEO, Catalyst GroupAn IES officer by profession, Akhand has always been on his toes to learn something new. The path of learning and spreading knowledge has given him the position he is in today.
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