While many of India’s homegrown online edtech firms are school curriculum-oriented, overseas learning platforms focus more on professional courses and soft skills programmes. “India has consistently been one of the top markets for Udemy, and our India operations have always been a priority. We have seen a huge rate of growth in online learning in India during covid," said Irwin Anand, managing director, Udemy. It has added 5 million learners in the past 10 months compared to 1.4 million in 2019. According to a recent Coursera Impact Report, India has the second-highest number of Coursera learners at 9.8 million, after the US’s 14 million.

Source: Mint November 04, 2020 01:18 UTC