INDIA
India is known as one the world's top education destination in the global education industry. With some of the best universities and colleges India has been successful in attracting bright talents all over the world. Indian education system is robust and built on strong foundations. According to Indian Brand Equity Foundation Indian education market is currently pegged at $100 billion with higher education contributing to 59.7%, school education at 38.1%, pre-school at 1.6% and the remainder 0.6% consists of technology and multi-media based education.
India may not be the early adopters of technology in the education sector but with access to high speed broadband internet and low lost computers and mobile devices there has been growth in the use of technology for learning. Today India is one of the fastest growing markets for e-learning based products and services. It is expected that this segment will have a turnover of $40 billion by 2017. There are different ways technology can be used to bring about reformation in the Indian education system . Even government aims to increase digital literacy of the country to 50% from current 15% by bringing out favorable policies to give impetus to technology based learning. Many entrepreneurs and startups have grabbed this opportunity to develop technology based educational products for private and government based schools, colleges and universities .