  Vuclip, the world’s largest independent mobile video and media company, on Wednesday launched its new mobile video channel, edu. (edu.vuclip.com),an education portal, at One Globe 2013, the annual conference focused on building a 21st century knowledge economy in India and South Asia.
Initially, the channel will provide educational videos for K-12 and higher education, which can be watched on any of the 5500 different types of internet-enabled mobile phones, including the most basic to the most advanced handsets. The channel currently supports educational videos in English but will include course material in other languages as well.
In its debut version, the portal will provide free access to thousands of educational videos from Khan Academy, the world’s premier not-for-profit education organization that offers free micro-lectures teaching mathematics, history,healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, computer science and other subjects.To date, Khan Academy has delivered over 234 million lessons worldwide.
Dr. Nickhil Jakatdar, CEO and founder of Vuclip, who was an invited speaker at One Globe 2013 during a spotlight session, also unveiled the findings of Vuclip’s global education survey. More than 80,000 people participated in this three day survey from around the world including countries such as India, Saudi Arabia, Philippines, Canada, Pakistan, United States, United Kindom, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico, UAE, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Brazil, Iran and several others.
He said that almost 30% of all respondents from India were under 18 years, while 40% were between 18-25 years. More than half of respondents in India cited money as the biggest obstacle to getting an education of their choice.However, Indiansare relatively more open to learning at home, with only 18% preferring to learn in a school, compared to the global average of 25% in favour of a school environment.At 82%, Indians are also more responsive to receiving education through phones, than the rest of the world (80%). This is true especially for respondents below 18 years of age.”
Indians prefer mobiles over computers as their choice of medium for education. Females prefer mobile twice as much as computers and males prefer mobile three times over computers. This was true across all age groups, though was more pronounced in respondents above 18 years of age.
As many as 70% males and 53% females in India said they were very interested in education through their phone, which again is above the global average, indicating a higher propensity to mobile-based education among Indians.
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