 I'm sorry, I'm constantly getting muted by the host. I hope I'm unmuted now. Am I audible to you? Yeah. Okay. Right, so hopefully there should not be any more muting by the host. As I mentioned, I'm Ahmed Goyal. I head edX for India and South East Asia. I'm based in India and I've been with edX for about six years. Over the last one decade or actually 12, 13 years, I've been working extensively in the education technology space. Prior to edX, I used to head education for Samsung, which is a leading company and I'm sure you would all know. I used to head their education solutions and during that part, I interacted with a lot of schools, colleges, universities across India, Asia and the European region and I worked closely with the teachers to move them online. Prior to that, I was also working with Ministry of Human Resource Development where I was responsible for creating the cheapest tablet PC of the world. So all the teachers out there, I hear you. I understand your apprehensions, expectations and all things you need from education technology. So without further ado, I'll quickly jump on to the topic. Starting with an introduction of edX. What is edX? So edX is a non-profit organization which is founded by MIT and Harvard University. We at edX are all part of MIT employees. edX is a vision-driven organization. We started with a vision of providing access to high quality education to everyone on this planet. Especially in Asian countries, the Asian parents, they give a lot of emphasis on providing access to high quality education. I'm sure you would all know the pressure that Chinese students face, the number of courses that they have to take just in order to make it to a good college or a university. We see the similar trends in India where in students, they start preparing for, when they're as young as 10 years old, 11 years old, they start preparing for test preparation exams to make sure that they get to one of the top university or a college in India. So providing access to high quality education has been a key challenge. And I think edX solved it about eight years ago. Today on this platform, we partner with 155 plus top ranking institutes of the world and offer their online courses on our platform. We represent nine of the top 10 universities such as MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, Brown, Caltech, et cetera. We have plenty of colleges and leading universities from Asian and India region. And we also work with a few thousand employers, some large organizations such as Mercedes, BCG, Microsoft, IBM around the world to train their workforce. We have over 100 million enrollments by 35 million plus learners. And they come from 196 countries around the world. On this platform, we currently offer 3000 plus courses offered by 155 plus top ranking institutes and professional bodies of the world. So if we talk about the challenge at hand today. When we look at the universities, I work very closely with many Asian universities and colleges. And one of the key challenge that I constantly hear them telling us is the gap between the university's offering and what employers are looking for. Many universities, they are producing unemployable graduates. I'll cite an example from India. In India, 80% of the engineering graduates are considered unemployable. The kind of salaries that they get after spending four year in an engineering college are at par with what a semi-skilled labor or a driver or a mason would get. And when we speak to the employers, the employer says that these learners are just not job ready for us. They will still be learning Kobol, they will still be learning basics of C-Sharp. They will be coming up with the skills which have already become obsolete right now. And one of the reason is in many economies, many countries, education is highly regulated. The government or the board, they decide what their students have to learn for the next four years. And if you decide something, what your students are going to learn for the next four years, the technology is anyway going to become redundant or obsolete. So, edX solves this problem. What we do is we bring universities, partners and employers together to make sure that their products that the learners are job ready. We have a corporate advisory board which comprises a chief learning officers, chief technology officers of leading organizations around the world such as Microsoft, IBM, GE, Accenture. Now these employers, these are some of the biggest employers around the world. They guide us on what kind of skills that they look for when they hire a candidate. They guide us where the industries move. What kind of skilled economy would they want the universities to build? We then work with our top ranking universities to produce the content and leverage a world-class platform to make sure learners are able to learn that content which makes them job ready, which makes them ready for tomorrow. We cover pretty much all the in-demand skills and technologies that you would require to remain relevant for tomorrow. Ranging from emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, cyber security. Two traditional technologies and skills such as business intelligence, digital marketing, operations management, collaboration, soft skills. So we cover pretty much everything. Now we've taken a step forward. What we have realized is after having 35 million plus learners on the planet, on our platform, we realized that now we should also work very proactively with our universities. The COVID has actually given them the much-needed nudge to adapt digital learning. The faculties who were earlier apprehensive of adopting a tech are now moving forward to leverage those tools and become more efficient. In order to serve the learning needs of students and everyone, we have launched edX online campus. With this online campus, you will be able to take all the top quality courses from top institutes on our edX platform, use a world-class features to make sure your learners, your teachers, are able to incorporate blended learning. And we have launched the most accessible platform of the world to serve the learning needs of everyone. Together, we call it edX online campus. What it brings to you is the content from top universities of the world, the platform tools, which allows the professors, which allows the faculty to create their own content, to add their own blended learning component, to use an active learning pathology, add data tools to make sure they're able to offer world-class content to their students, plus they are able to make sure that they're able to track the progress report of their students. Now, think of it this way. Today, one of your professor walks into a class and let's say they have to teach the foundations of artificial intelligence. Currently, the teacher would explain the concept of a blackboard. They would recite whatever is written in the book and students would follow the same. With blended learning, what colleges could do is they could more efficiently utilize the professor's time that they spend in a classroom. The professor still comes with a very rich experience. That experience is crucial to be shared with the students. So instead of simply repeating what is written in the books, what colleges can do, they could leverage edX online courses, let their students learn at their own pace and convenience from those courses. So if I'm a professor and in the next one week, I have to teach my students the foundations of artificial intelligence. I will tell my students to take this course on my university platform, which I have created in partnership with edX online campus. I have put in a couple of courses there. Students will go and access the content. And after three days, four days, they may come back to the class and we will do blended learning. We'll learn from them. We'll learn from their experiences. We'll see what kind of problems and challenges that they are facing. And that's how we do a flip learning or a blended learning approach. The faculties who wants to add their own content, who wants to add, let's say use cases or hackathon projects or anything which is more specific to their curriculum, to their industry, to their geography, they could do so. So think of edX online courses as a digital learning resource and you can augment your own content on top of it and let the learners learn from the best minds in the world. And most importantly, they get a certificate from top university. So they don't just graduate with an engineering degree from your institute, but they also earn many specializations from top rank institutes of the world. Now these credentials in their profile definitely make them more employable. As per our research, we have seen 73% of the learners who take edX courses, they become more employable. They get better jobs, they get a career progression opportunity, they become more efficient at work or it simply results in better placements and better salaries. Very quick example of how universities are leveraging MOOCs, massive open online courses. They augment their own study material on top of edX learning material, on top of edX courses. And they let the learners go through those courses, they conduct their own assessments or simply leverage the assessments which are built in every edX course. And they're able to progress, track the learner's progress report at every level. So whenever a learner has any question, whenever a learner has any doubt, they could go to the discussion forums, create their query, and they get a response either from the course team or the peers around the world for taking the same course. Size with years which are seven to eight minutes long, then they take graded assessments and those graded assessments bounce towards their completion certificate. What's unique about edX is we have literally taken the neuroscience at scale and employed them into our active learning Paragogy. With edX courses, we make sure that you're able to learn anywhere and anytime it is very ubiquitous. We have made sure that we use active learning Paragogy, which is we use bite-sized videos which are about seven to eight minutes long so students don't get bored. And after that they take assessments, they interact in digital discussion forums and whatever courses that they take, they count towards their credits. They're able to stack them. So it's like a university semester which has multiple courses. You can take a semester online on edX and that semester will have multiple courses. You could stack them one by one which count towards your final degree. I'll very quickly talk about a couple of case studies. San Jose City College in US has been extensively using edX as their digital lecturer. What they simply do is they have replaced some of their foundational courses using edX courses. So students, they take the foundational prerequisite online on edX platform and then students come to the campuses, they discuss their learning, they discuss their assignments with the professors and the professors track their progress report, the professors can go through the individual learner completion data and grant them the credits. And using this approach, they're able to leverage the technology in a very efficient manner. Be it the classroom, be it after classroom, they're always connected and students love this flexibility. The teachers, they don't have to create their digital learning resources from scratch. When the best of best in class content is already available out there, they don't really have to reinvent the wheel. They can simply go through our catalog of thousands of courses. We've already created stacked courses which are designed to give you certain specializations. You could simply pick up those stacks and offer it to your students. Another example is the University of Iceland. During COVID time, they have extensively used edX platform. They found the platform extremely helpful, especially when the campuses were closed. What they did, they created, they had a major challenge of employability, meeting the skill requirement of the corporates. What they did is they created a sequence of three to four edX courses. On those three to four edX courses, they created their own life project. So a student will go online on edX platform. They will take those three courses which are mandated by the university. And after completing those three courses, the students will take the final capstone project or the life project, which is designed by the university on their own platform. And once they are able to complete that life project successfully, that is a definite proof that learners are not only able to understand the concept, but they are also able to apply those concepts into practices. The end results, the students became more employable. The students became more skilled. And the campuses were able to leverage the best in class content which was readily available out there. The teachers became more efficient rather than creating the courses from scratch. They simply picked and compiled the best in class content. And these programs, they did not only confine it to their own students, they made it open to learners outside of their campuses as well. So this also provided an additional source of revenue to the university because they could take these programs to students who are outside their campuses as well, who are not a full-time student, more like an executive education, cater towards working professional, making them more employable. So I understand that COVID is back for the economy, but frankly, it has given the much needed nudge that we required in the tech space. Today is the moment of true transformation of education. Our teachers, they need not be worried about our machines going to replace them. Our technology, is technology going to replace them? Technology and tech is here to make your life easier. Technology is not here to replace teachers. Technology is here to make you more efficient. And edX platform is created by academician. It is created by universities like MIT and Harvard. And our sole goal is to provide access to higher quality education to everyone on this planet. So let's work together and make it happen. We are making edX online campus absolutely free to many colleges around the world. So if you are a college or a university and you want to provide access to online courses from top ranking universities around the world, two year students, absolutely free, please get in touch with us and we'll explain you the process. When we say absolutely free, there are no strings, there are no terms and conditions attached. Remember edX is a nonprofit venture by MIT and Harvard University. So if you want to create a digital campus using edX online courses, please feel free to get in touch with us. This is my direct email address. We'll look forward to hearing from you. Thank you so much for your time. I look forward to any questions that you might be having. Thank you. Okay, thank you, Amit, for your wonderful presentation. Yeah, I'm very interested about your edX, Canvas, plane. Yeah, so you mean, I have one question. You mean free, so that's really free to the university or to the end of school students. So today on edX platform, if you directly go to edX.org, you will be able to take thousands of courses absolutely free as a student on audit track, but you will not be able to get a certificate. What we are trying to do is we are trying to partner with colleges and we are providing them access to a limited catalog. They can expose that catalog to all of their students who could complete the entire course absolutely free. They will also get a certificate of completion from the universities who provide it. We embed with the university single sign-on. We embed with their learning management systems. So we provide the LMS integration, access to the courses on certificate track from a specific online campus catalog, absolutely free. And we also provide the learner's progress report. So students and teachers are able to see what their learners are doing, how many enrollments happened. All of this thing, which we usually monetize, we're currently offering them absolutely free. Okay, so for the university sign, you have a B2B model, right? Sounds like you will have... We do have a B2B model. So we have 3,000 courses. If a university wants to take all the courses, then they will have to pay for it. We are planning to make about 100 courses absolutely free. So those courses will remain free to the students, to the university. The university will have to sign up for edX online campus. And then we provide those courses absolutely free to them. Okay, all right. That's the same question that we have asked in the chat. So the limitation of the student capacity on edX campus, is there any limitation numbers of the students? There is no limitation. There is no capping on the students. If you have 100 students, if you have a million students, you're more than welcome. Yeah, but for the B2B model, you will have a limitation. We don't. There is no limitation, no restriction at all. All right, that sounds exciting actually. Yeah, in actual, we have already got several cooperation with the other platform, but not edX yet. So I will definitely contact you about the edX. Absolutely, I will have my email address. Please get in touch. We're launching this program. Yes, and I think our time is up. So if anyone I want to do any more discussion, we welcome you to go to the OEG Connect and keep going on. All right, thank you very much, Amit. Yeah. Thank you for having me. See you, bye-bye.