Harnessing the Power of Technology
Aakash Sethi
Quest Alliance Snapshot
Founded in 2005
Research, Innovation &
Advocacy in QUality
Education & Skills Training
= QUEST
Enabling individuals to
build self-learning
pathways
Responsible & effective
use of educational
technology
Worked in over 7 States
with Govt. programs
Teacher told me…
The Problem
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Negative school experience
High attrition rate of facilitators
No real world exposure
Market looking for trainable talent
Blended Learning – The Bhaiya Model
Blended Learning Definition
“The definition of blended learning is a formal education program in
which a student learns:
1.
at least in part through online learning, with some
element of student control over time, place, path, and/or
pace
2.
at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location
away from home
3.
and the modalities along each student’s learning path
within a course or subject are connected to provide an
integrated learning experience.”
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Blended Learning Impact Levers
Leveraging Digital Learning makes an impact to workforce enablement programs across four primary levers.
Scalability
Cost Efficiency
• Improved beneficiary access to learning at a time
and place that is better for them
• Greater student-teacher ratio possible without
reduction in personal attention
• More robust program management and metric
tracking capability
• Learning compression – same learning, less time
Impact of Blended Learning
Applicability
Efficacy
• Faster roll out of content updates keeps content
relevant to the marketplace
• Platform and content more consistent
• Content can be customized automatically for
individual needs
• Improved learning and retention
• Builds learning communities among instructors and
students
• Encourages self-learning
• Improves digital literacy
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Our Focus
• To enable vocational delivery systems with
knowledge and tools to make youth
employable
• Provide over 200 hours of digital learning
content on English, Life-Skills, Career Guidance
& Customer Interaction for youth
• Provide on demand learning for trainers &
professional development opportunities
The Quest Way: Enabling Youth Employability
Youth
Alumni
Map Aspirations & Build
Skills
Profiling & Up-skilling
Central
Database &
Tracking
Trainer
Training & Up gradation
Industry
Awareness &
Involvement
Youth
Confidence
• Self expression through arts, games & stories
• English for everyday life
• Technology based learning
Guidance
• Understanding Interest & abilities
• Workplace visits, videos & guest lectures
• Profiling role models
Planning
• Career Information
• Career Planning
Trainer
Train
• Understanding Content
• Delivery of Content
Support
• On demand access to self learning materials
• Building a community of practice
• Professional Development
Manage
• Access to student performance data
• Analysis of data through Quest Learning
Management system
Alumni
Connect
Profile
Support
• Regular updates through SMS
• Continuous learning
• Success stories in the
community
• Counselling helpline
• Peer to peer networks enabled
Industry
Awareness
• Share Job scenarios through films
• Guest lectures & field visits
• Dialogues
Involvement
• Pool of professionals to validate curriculum
• Focus on Job Readiness
Recruitment
• Access to Youth Profiles
• Online system to screen & shortlist trained candidates
Funders
Technology
Knowledge
Outreach
35 NGOs & ITIs across
150 centers in 7
states
Sustainability Approaches
• Youth centered approach to get them to take charge of
their lives and career
• Trainers get on-demand support to adopt this method of
delivery. Building sustainable leadership
• Technology to be used as an enabler to provide a single
window system with a centralized tracking for all
stakeholders
• Employers have access to institutes & student profiles for
finding the right jobs
• Alumni get a chance to up-skill themselves through
technology base learning & peer to peer learning
Capacity Building of
Trainers & Centers to
create technology enabled
learning environments
Blended Learning
Resources provided for
Employability &
Entrepreneurship
Impacting
100,000 Youth in
5years
Data Tracking,
Management &
reporting of student &
center performance
Outreach to small and large
NGOs & enterprises running
youth employment programs.
THANK YOU
aakash@questalliance.net
www.questalliance.net