BYJU's joins hands with NSDC to support skilling of teachers and trainers

BYJU's is one of India’s largest EdTech company. The unicorn today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The agreement aims to support the skilling of teachers and trainers. The partners share a vision to accelerate Skill India Mission. With this, they will empower teachers and trainers with the key skills and digital tools. Hence, making learning engaging, effective and personalised for children and youth.

BYJU's will be supporting NSDC by providing free access to its educational content and tools to help the teachers. Additionally, BYJU's will share its digital educational content (scholastic and non-scholastic) as free licences with the NSDC ecosystem. This will help equip teachers and students for a quality learning experience.

Under this partnership, e-skill India - NSDC’s digital skilling initiative, will assist BYJU’S in enhancing the awareness and adoption of its digital tools as well as enable stakeholders in the NSDC ecosystem to utilize resources provided by BYJU’s digital interventions.

From the leaders

Speaking on the partnership, Byju Raveendran, Founder & CEO, BYJU's expressed his delight at the partnership. He said, “At BYJU's, our overarching goal has always been to make quality content accessible for students and provide teachers with the right content to foster the best learning outcomes for students across the country. This association will further the Digital India vision. It will also boost online learning that has become an integral part of mainstream learning now. This collaboration will go a long way in empowering teachers and trainers and help them succeed in a digital economy.”

Commenting on the collaboration, Dr Manish Kumar, MD & CEO, NSDC, said, “Digital learning is emerging as one of the most important tools in modernizing education and skill training. As the skill development ecosystem is evolving from a brick-and-mortar model to a blended model, NSDC is delighted to partner with BYJU's for the professional development of trainers that support powerful teaching and learning.”