Established in 2016, TCYonline leverages its technological prowess to create an integrated courseware - lecture slides, books, tests, remedial practice and app for impactful learning experience and hook students into learning.

Most of the current Ed Tech applications are centred around self-learning modules or infrastructure improvements to facilitate learning. The market is flooded with ventures that promise high-tech solutions to everything that troubles education today: smartboards, animations, lecture videos, assessments, adaptive learning modules etc.

What is missing in these otherwise enthusiastic and well-meaning products is the final impact they are supposed to make. Almost in all cases, as the novelty of the program wears off, the user has to be dragged in front of the product. Many ventures end up investing most of their time in creating circumstances for the elusive user to use the product, and never find the time or resource to focus on real educational impact for which the product had actually been conceptualized.

Personalized learning in a teacherled classroom seems to be a low priority for EdTech so far. The role of a teacher to make learning happen in a classroom is widely underestimated by the same very venture-founders who credit their own success to some teacher who had ignited a spark of learning within them. The EdTech products today appear to be vying to replace the teacher model which is viewed as inefficient and non-scalable component in the whole Ed- Tech piece. It is not a series of video lectures that the student wants. He is already flooded with unlimited free high-quality options on the internet. What the student actually wants is an empowered and passionate teacher in his classroom.

We need to understand the learning process and the role of a teacher to create learning experiences that help student’s master concepts with ease, and enjoy the process at the same time. Carefully planned and complete learning experience is what it takes to create impact in the classroom, be it in formal or in supplemental education. This needs integration of every component of the course: lectures, formative assessments, extended practice, textbooks, handouts, remedial resources.

"The power of data science enables continuous remedial interventions to help learners become what they are born to be"

This is also where the real problem lies. Most talented teachers do not have the time to put in the tremendous efforts demanded and the resources in hand are often mediocre. Designing engaging, relevant and focused learning experiences to energize a classroom full of learners with diverse needs is a sublime art and if done well is akin to magic From a macro perspective, it would be much more efficient if this is done by an experienced and focused core team that creates it as a product, and share it at scale with teachers. A continuous feedback loop would keep refining the lecture ideas and create new extensions, making the product more meaningful. This turns teachers into super-specialists, empowered with the tools and reports, to deliver their best.



Kamal Wadhera

TCY figured-out from its classroom experience how to leverage its technological prowess to create an integrated courseware - lecture slides, books, tests, remedial practice and app – that create impactful learning experience and hook students into learning. It has already started disrupting learning experiences in over 600 coaching centres where over 1,800 teachers are liberated from everyday reinventing the wheel and are able to fully focus on delivering power packed classroom experiences, something they always wanted and deserved.

Adding to it, the power of data science enables continuous remedial interventions to help learners become what they are born to be. It all begins to fall into place when once we start accepting that artificial intelligence is not a panacea to cure all educational problems; and its right use is not to replace teachers but to supplement their efforts.