Digital Education: Matching the Supply with Demand

There are a few recent studies that tell a lot about the changing landscape in the education sector:

• Education is the third most popular category in the downloaded apps from Apple's App Store.
• Mobile learning market worldwide is projected to touch $37 billion mark by 2020.
• Accenture 2014 Global Value of Higher Education Survey, based on a sample size of about 1500 across UK, US, Singapore, Australia and India has reported that about 70% of recent graduates and higher education students want institutions to use more and more of digital tools.
• By 2020, 98% of students are expected to use blended learning consisting of classroom as well as online components.
• Gaming has become a major learning technique. Whether you call it educational entertainment or academic game play, it has become a popular trend.

All these are indicators of the changing scenario of the way education is imparted to students at various levels. In fact, not just students, even companies are realizing the power of digital learning for corporate trainings. As per Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, the corporate digital market is set to overtake the learning in the traditional conference room settings of corporate headquarters.

While there is no doubt that there is huge demand for digital learning apps, the challenge before the apps development companies is that digital learning tools should be made more interactive and fun to enhance retention. Digital education is still a relatively young industry and it requires new and breakthrough models to make it exciting and interesting.

First of all, there are very few players who are offering course content catering to the diverse needs of learners. Then, there are issues of enabling technology that can address the hurdles like affordability, accessibility, mode of delivery, etc. AppWallet feature of Anant computing platform is remarkable in many ways in the sense that it allows different learning tools to be bundled for different customer groups based on their educational and socio-economic profile and needs. Low memory space, automatic update and auto app discovery are a few other features that the fast paced student community of today would be willing to embrace with open arms.