blending technology to make skill development more accessbile, affordable and effective
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Enabling Youth Employability
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A journey of a thousand miles…
B. Ganesh
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15 Million school dropouts every year! Photo credit: Youthkiawaaz.com
Challenges in Challenges in status quo!status quo!
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800 Million mobile users in India!Photo credit: livemint.com
Can this disrupt?Can this disrupt?
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What did we start off with?
Free Videos
Evaluation + CertificationPaid Practical Training
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Being disruptive…Being disruptive…even at the cost ofeven at the cost ofbeing ridiculed!being ridiculed!
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Videos on mobiles…
Work with the Work with the beneficiary…beneficiary………co-create!co-create!
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Repairing shop or practical training centre ?
The cynicism…The cynicism………or self test!or self test!
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Blended learning or…
Trial and error…Trial and error………is not a bad idea!is not a bad idea!
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…learning by doing!
A CampA Campbased modelbased model
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Where are we today?
15 Courses
• Mobile repairing• Basic electronics repairing• Basic electrical training• Home appliance repairing• Basics of computers• Computer hardware repairing• Masonry• Plumbing• Cutting & Tailoring• Beautician• Motor cycle repairing• Passenger car servicing
18 offline centres
• 2 Own centres• 13 repairing shops in Jabalpur• 1 NGO in Thane (Udaan)• 2 NGOs in Gujarat
600+ offline
students
2,600online
students
54,321YouTubestudents
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The way ahead…
Vocational training on a blended
learning formatenabled by a mobile
application
Target: Train 500,000
students in the next 10 years
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Thank You!For any questions please contact B Ganesh at [email protected]
Mobile: 87544-91374Visit us at: www.skilltrain.in
Watch our videos at www.youtube.com/skilltrainindia
Enabling Youth Employability
A journey of a thousand miles…
…starts with a single step!