Jumping Frog: Democratizing E- Learning
The E-Learning market in India has witnessed considerable progress in the last few years, and is projected to reach USD 1.29 billion by 2018, growing at a CAGR of 17 percent. The increased penetration of the Internet, ongoing government initiatives such as ‘Digital India’ and an increase in demand for interactive learning are some of the major factors that have contributed to the growth of the LMS market. Moreover, several global E-Learning players have seen a surge in the adoption of their platforms from India, which is now at the helm of a technological intervention in educational infrastructure. However, despite the tremendous potential for the growth of E-Learning within the country, several challenges still impede the proliferation of E-Learning technology. The growth of this industry, which is still in its nascent stage, is being hindered by factors such as lack of awareness on E-Learning initiatives, absence of relevant learning material and the skepticism surrounding non-traditional learning approaches. Further more, there is also a need for E-learning technology that can consistently adapt and innovate to be relevant for India. Acknowledging these challenges and requisites, New Delhi headquartered Jumping Frog endeavors to transform the educational infrastructure in the country by empowering students with an enhanced learning experience through the use of advanced technology.A cloud based application product of Netspec, Jumping Frog, provides a Cloud-based learning management system, which synchronizes all the stakeholders in an institution’s ecosystem to enable them with Digital E-content Delivery, Assessment, Collaboration, Analytics & SIS, bringing together an inclusive platform that is designed for educational excellence. As an LMS platform that caters to a wide range of verticals such as Pre-schools, K-12, Test prep, Colleges and Universities, Jumping Frog’s learning delivery platform facilitates education service providers with a virtual classroom that allows course management, content authoring, video streaming, tests and assessments, analytics and mobile learning modules, thereby paving the way for educators to connect and deliver quality education. “Jumping Frog takes pride in creating innovative E-learning solutions and bringing to the fore, learner appropriate strategies, which are constructed on a strong foundation of technology and research,” affirms Rajesh Bakshi, Founder & Chief Architect, Jumping Frog.
Managing the Diverse Requirements of E-Learning with a Single Platform
In order to bridge the gap between teachers, students and parents through creating an interpersonal and conducive education system, Jumping Frog serves as a full fledged platform that allows them to manage the complete aspects of instruction and learning. The system also enables the capturing of essential data of the ward, ranging from academic records to personality traits and social behavior. As a comprehensive Learning Management platform, Jumping Frog consolidates four modules that come together to build an inclusive framework that is aimed at educational excellence, i.e. Collaborative Learning Platform, Digital Resources & Tools, Analytics & Assessment and Learning Management System. Equipped with innovative and user friendly technology, Jumping Frog facilitates networking and collaboration among students, teachers and parents, where a regular exchange of feedback as well as tracking of performances is implemented, thereby contributing towards a student's overall growth.
Furthermore, the Digital Resources and Tools module of this platform provides students with the opportunity to access study resources in the form of e-books and other electronic formats, as well as a wide range of online lectures and shared presentations. Jumping Frog also uses analytics to create online dashboards and detailed analytical reports that provide in-depth insights into student growth metrics, thereby facilitating the management with an informative report on the progress of students in both academics and co-scholastic areas. On the whole, Jumping Frog allows education service providers to focus primarily on student development by streamlining various activities such as Course development, Assignment and test creation, Annotation of student submissions, Analysis reporting, Grading and General Campus management. It helps teachers across the globe stay connected with each other through an additional Group feature in its platform - Teachers Global Networking. This feature serves as a unique platform to promote the interaction between teachers in order to enable the sharing of best practices and strategies, additional knowledge and the latest developments in the field of academia. Using this feature, teachers can also seek assistance and guidance from one another for various situations and take action accordingly. Teachers Global Networking also allows teachers of a specific chain of schools to create a private community amongst themselves for the exchange of notes, assessment, progress reports, and effective practices. They are able to discuss the challenges in particular topics, subjects and circumstances as well as collaborate in the creation of meaningful and interesting content.
Jumping Frog also serves as an online repository of information by incorporating functionalities for Homework & Assignments, Student Attendance, Examination Schedule, Syllabus Management and Transport & Bus Route Management, there by eliminating the need for tedious paperwork and manual processes surrounding these activities.
Advancing Technology Aided Learning with eAcademy Pro
With an objective to introduce modern workplace learners to technology aided learning, Jumping Frog has developed eAcademy
Pro a platform that provides universal access to online courses from across the world. Combining new age design with technology, these courses are created in close collaboration with subject matter experts and leading specialists, across a variety of topics that are carefully chosen to cater to the specific needs of learners. These courses can also be utilized to jumpstart an e-learning initiative in an organization which has a pre existing learning platform without the suitable learning content. Additionally, eAcademy Pro also provides a revolutionary user interface, learner-focused workflows and a responsive design that enables users to seamlessly access the LMS through multiple devices, and analyze insightful dashboards. On the whole, this platform serves as a cost effective and time saving way to further the advancement of technology aided learning.
Improving Learning Strategies across Government Schools
Government School systems often encounter challenges such as lack of monetary funding, absence of academic resources and the unavailability of adequate teachers and trainers. With more than 70 percent of students enrolled into government and state funded education, there is a need for advanced technology tools and teaching strategies, that can create an immersive learning environment in the government education sector. Striving to resolve the many complexities in India’s education space, Jumping Frog brings a platform which has been designed to cater to the specific requisites of students in government schools and colleges across the country. Being a robust and secure platform, Jumping Frog for Government Schools serves as a simplified framework which can be easily implemented in the existing environment of any institution, with specific learning material and strategies designed for government education.“Jumping Frog is all set to restructure the learning management of our Government schools and make the students competitive enough to stand at the forefront of tomorrow's challenging society. We believe that this formula of learning can contribute immensely to the holistic development of every child in India,” enunciates Rajesh.
Since its inception, Jumping Frog has grown into a comprehensive LMS platform that provides a seamless online experience for all aspects of E-Learning. The company has fashioned itself as a unique proposition in the market with the creation of innovative collaboration platforms, student management systems and digital learning content. Jumping Frog has also helped education institutions reduce their dependency on publishers for learning content, by encouraging educationists to create their own content. The company believes that education entities can increase their effectiveness by constructing their own unique digital learning content and customized assessment strategies as opposed to the general content and assessment methods. “There is a need for comprehensive online course creation platforms that can support all content formats, simplify course creation and facilitate institutes and organizations with the resources to create online courses from a single place,” explains Rajesh. “This immediate availability of digital content and online assessment will revolutionize the education space in the future,” he goes on to add.
With a vision to bring these innovations to the fore, Jumping Frog hopes to experience exponential growth in the coming years and have more than 5 million students enrolled in its platform. The company also intends to deliver cost-effective skill development certified courses through eAcademy Pro in the next five years. In alignment with its mission and core values that emphasize on ‘Happiness for all,’ Jumping Frog hopes to create and achieve an environment where education is made available anytime-anywhere, at minimized costs and on every device. “As a business we are passionate about creating economic value for our stakeholders on a long term basis. We believe that in today's competitive market place, every business runs the risk of chasing economic value at the expense of fundamentals, values and principles. We are conscious of this fact and are determined to follow our value-principles as we endeavor to achieve our economic goals,” signs off Rajesh.
Jumping Frog - A Feature - Rich Platform
Parent Collaboration: To improve parents’ awareness on their child’s development, this feature provides a collaborative framework to generate regular progress reports as op¬posed to bi-annual parent teacher interaction meetings. Through this functionality, parents are also allowed to connect with other parents to share experiences and discuss matters of importance.
Groups: With a number of clubs, societies and teams existing within a school, this feature creates a provision for the online co-ordination and management of groups, allowing members to allocate and manage responsibilities online.
Student Project Collaboration: This feature allows students to communicate and co-ordinate online for projects, assignments and other learning activities, creating better synchronization to organize group projects.
Teacher Global Networking: As a unique feature of the Jumping Frog platform, this module enables the interaction of teachers across the globe, allowing them to share and exchange methodologies, knowledge and the latest developments in academia and research.
Jumping Frog takes pride in creating innovative E-learning solutions and bringing to the fore, learner appropriate strategies
Improving Learning Strategies across Government Schools
Government School systems often encounter challenges such as lack of monetary funding, absence of academic resources and the unavailability of adequate teachers and trainers. With more than 70 percent of students enrolled into government and state funded education, there is a need for advanced technology tools and teaching strategies, that can create an immersive learning environment in the government education sector. Striving to resolve the many complexities in India’s education space, Jumping Frog brings a platform which has been designed to cater to the specific requisites of students in government schools and colleges across the country. Being a robust and secure platform, Jumping Frog for Government Schools serves as a simplified framework which can be easily implemented in the existing environment of any institution, with specific learning material and strategies designed for government education.“Jumping Frog is all set to restructure the learning management of our Government schools and make the students competitive enough to stand at the forefront of tomorrow's challenging society. We believe that this formula of learning can contribute immensely to the holistic development of every child in India,” enunciates Rajesh.
Since its inception, Jumping Frog has grown into a comprehensive LMS platform that provides a seamless online experience for all aspects of E-Learning. The company has fashioned itself as a unique proposition in the market with the creation of innovative collaboration platforms, student management systems and digital learning content. Jumping Frog has also helped education institutions reduce their dependency on publishers for learning content, by encouraging educationists to create their own content. The company believes that education entities can increase their effectiveness by constructing their own unique digital learning content and customized assessment strategies as opposed to the general content and assessment methods. “There is a need for comprehensive online course creation platforms that can support all content formats, simplify course creation and facilitate institutes and organizations with the resources to create online courses from a single place,” explains Rajesh. “This immediate availability of digital content and online assessment will revolutionize the education space in the future,” he goes on to add.
With a vision to bring these innovations to the fore, Jumping Frog hopes to experience exponential growth in the coming years and have more than 5 million students enrolled in its platform. The company also intends to deliver cost-effective skill development certified courses through eAcademy Pro in the next five years. In alignment with its mission and core values that emphasize on ‘Happiness for all,’ Jumping Frog hopes to create and achieve an environment where education is made available anytime-anywhere, at minimized costs and on every device. “As a business we are passionate about creating economic value for our stakeholders on a long term basis. We believe that in today's competitive market place, every business runs the risk of chasing economic value at the expense of fundamentals, values and principles. We are conscious of this fact and are determined to follow our value-principles as we endeavor to achieve our economic goals,” signs off Rajesh.
Jumping Frog - A Feature - Rich Platform
Parent Collaboration: To improve parents’ awareness on their child’s development, this feature provides a collaborative framework to generate regular progress reports as op¬posed to bi-annual parent teacher interaction meetings. Through this functionality, parents are also allowed to connect with other parents to share experiences and discuss matters of importance.
Groups: With a number of clubs, societies and teams existing within a school, this feature creates a provision for the online co-ordination and management of groups, allowing members to allocate and manage responsibilities online.
Student Project Collaboration: This feature allows students to communicate and co-ordinate online for projects, assignments and other learning activities, creating better synchronization to organize group projects.
Teacher Global Networking: As a unique feature of the Jumping Frog platform, this module enables the interaction of teachers across the globe, allowing them to share and exchange methodologies, knowledge and the latest developments in academia and research.
