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With a 24-year legacy into bettering education, Everonn has come a long way and is now one of the leaders in the market with its hi-tech initiatives. In a tête-à-tête with Dr Ravi Gupta, Editor-in-Cheif, digitalLEARNING, P Kishore, MD, Everonn speak about the journey of the company. Excerpts:
Everonn Initiative in Bettering Education Please elaborate on how the journey of Everonn began. When you are a first generation entrepreneur you don’t have to worry much; there is nothing to lose. The journey began 24-years ago. So, what started as one teacher and four students, today is an assembly of 6900 people and we touch and teach about three million children every day. Of course we pioneer in bringing the first digital content in classrooms. Our entire innovation started from a very
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fundamental education psychology. It says that what you read your brain retains only 10 per cent of it. However, the learning process says what you see and hear, the brain retains 20 per cent of it. And the next level of experiential learning says your brain retains 40 per cent. We said can we take the children from 10 to 20 per cent. So I used computer as a vehicle to deliver the read, see and hear in the Indian classrooms. So we brought in digital classroom 24-years ago.
Computers were costly and not user friendly at that time. How did you manage with the Proposed Plan? There were only two manufacturers at that time-Wipro and Aiko Computers. Thus instead of choosing such costly things, we got most of the content from BBC which we used to deliver in video cassette players in the classrooms. Those days there was a language called “logo” that we used to teach; that’s how we had built our platform.