Education Times Report: Mumbai's students vote for balance between Textbooks and Visual Learning

A poll conducted by Education Times reveals the new generation of students want to study from more visual content apart from regular textbooks.

Does the idea of using the idiot box as a tool to gain knowledge appeal to you?
YES-84% ; NO-16%
Does a television, in your opinion, come across as a good substitute for books?
YES-88% ; NO-12%
What would appeal more to you as a student, in your education system?
A BALANCE BETWEEN BOOKS AND TV-80% ; ONLY BOOKS-20%

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DNA News: Coaching Classes go virtual

A review of Sinhal eVideo in DNA Mumbai.

Students who prefer to study by self, will benefit from eVideo

Priya Ramakrishnan / DNA Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Mumbai: In a bid to help students who want to cut the cost of extra coaching for class X exams, a city tutorial, holding classes for ICSE and CBSE boards, has come up with the idea of virtual coaching. With the help of a series of DVDs, loaded with lectures by professors and digital textbooks, students can now prepare themselves on their own at a much lower cost.

"We designed the eVideo to aid those students who prefer to study on their own. It comes with 20 DVDs containing the whole of class X lectures for Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biology (PCMB). There are also notes and test papers, and a separate section dealing with the frequently asked questions," Sudhanshu Sinhal, director, Sinhal's Classes, said.

The cost of an eVideo set is Rs21,000. A student taking classroom coaching for the same subjects has to shell out more than Rs40,000. "It is not a replacement for a classroom course. Instead, you may call it coaching classes home delivered," Sinhal added.

E-learning has not caught on well in India, but an ever increasing number of students are getting hooked to digital textbooks and animations. "Digital textbooks make reading very interesting. They make it easier to retain the information. Revision, too, becomes much simpler, Anand Pangam, a class X student, said.

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