PC-Enabled Learning Is Transforming India's Destiny In The Education Sector

We are living in times where education is undergoing a systemic reform, with PC learning set to be at the helm of education in the years ahead.

India has a long-standing history with PC education, with computer science education being introduced in the country in 1963.¹ Since then, online learning has been adopted across the country due to widespread distribution of high-speed Internet, with India having approximately 688 million active digital users as of January 2020. ² 

Today, India is the second-largest market for e-learning, estimated to have 9.5 million users and a value of USD 1.96 billion by 2021.³

What is PC-enabled education?

PC education helps students grasp and retain concepts through engaging audio-visual mediums, which is in stark contrast to the age-old method of rote learning. This educative and informative manner of learning helps students understand subjects, as opposed to just remembering them. 

Additionally, PCs enable students to-

• Interact with professors and students from across the world
  
  
• Find unique and path-breaking ways to solve existing problems
  
  
• Learn in a format that best suits them be it audio, visual, text or graphic
  
  
• Learn from peers by collaborating and sharing ideas while working on projects
  
  
• Learn from the convenience of their homes, at a suitable time
  
  
• Solve doubts on the spot, as opposed to memorizing a concept to score marks
  
  
• Stay up to date about political, social and economic news from across the world  

As a country, we have made leaps and bounds when it comes to PC-enabled learning, however, we still have a long way to go. While 3.4 million PC units were shipped in the second quarter of 2019, the overall PC penetration in the country still stands at less than 10%. ⁴

Our solution?

Dell Aarambh - A pan-India PC for Education initiative to help parents, teachers, and children successfully transition to Digital India, by equipping them with the knowledge of how to use a PC for better learning.

Through our Dell Champs School contact program, we have already engaged nearly 1.5 million students, to help hone creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem-solving in their manner of thinking.

With 4,793 schools benefitted, 91,351 teachers trained and certified, and 1,29,362 mothers trained, we are working towards increasing PC penetration to enable a future-ready education sector within the country.