Empowering Learners for Academic Quality and Employability
The aim of Classle Knowledge, a social enterprise, is to increase the quality and employability of students and youth through technology and social learning. Classle is a resource hub for learners to learn, search, create, share and discuss in their chosen disciplines. This is accomplished by a dedicated team of learners, knowers and experts, including educators, professionals, academicians and career counselors.
Started by Vaidya Nathan (IIT-M 1990), Classle has about 65,000 students and about 42 academic institutes under its wing.
Simple and Powerful
The highlights of the platform are:
- Classle’s technology-powered online platform, which integrates social technologies together, takes a learner beyond the narrow confines of their institution. It puts the learners in a virtual learning group of educators, professionals and peers of their own choosing.
- Using a points system and rewards associated with features like internships, future scholarships, and employment, Classle let the users know that every single thing they do is added to their account.
- Classle expands the availability of knowledge and learning material and allows for the student / learner to be an active contributor. In the process, it empowers the learner and enlists them as an important member of the learning eco-system.
- Classle provides fast, easy and free access to a wide variety of organized contents. Classle help learners find highly valued, targeted, appropriate and closely related information quickly.
- Classle has a simple and intuitive user interface. This way both technical and non-technical learners can easily search, create, manage, and track their preferred contents. Learners with similar needs can interact through forums and get together in Classle Groups.
- Through collaboration with industry, Classle brings continuous support for application and relevance of concepts, project guidance and mentoring, problem solving, communication skills, etc., thereby making learning comprehensive.
- Through user points and a dashboard, it gives continuous feedback to the user on how they are faring in attaining their goals and highlight how each activity they do is leading them to their goals.
- It provides all this free while innovating to engage through low-cost mobile phones. This takes care of the socio-economic and digital divide issues.
- As the user engages in learning activity through the platform, Classle gathers insights into the users and use that analysis to connect them with companies that are looking for good candidates. This way, it not only assists the students to be knowledgeable and employable, but also cover the last mile of getting them employment.
