*SKILLAP MISSION*
APSSDC

Government of India declared national lockdown in order to fight against covid-19

The following e learning platforms may be of more use to the youngsters

Leading EdTech firms such as Byju’s, Vedantu, Unacademy, Toppr, Extramarks, UpGrad, ViDu, Impartus and Lido Learning are offering free services for the next 2 months.

*Coursera* - Free access to their course catalogue through Coursera for Campus till July 31, 2020.
*Byju’s* – Free access to complete library till April 30. Free live classes as well.
*Toppr* - Offering its Live class services free for all students from classes 5 to 12
*Vedantu* - Schools can use their own content and teachers, but deliver classes using content from Vedantu on its live platform. Also offering free access to all live classes of Vedantu master teachers, study material, tests and assignments and live doubts feature.
*Extramarks* – Free access to app till April 30, but charging INR 2000 per month for live classes
*Unacademy* – Free lectures for students who are undertaking competitive examinations like UPSC, Railway and Banking. To conduct close to 20,000 free live classes on its platform. The educational institutions have to register to conduct their live classes on Unacademy, after which the company will help these institutions set up their online classes.
*Upgrad* - Announced free access to its live platform to all colleges, universities, NGOs and Government bodies.
*ViDu* - Live online classes and assessment solutions to schools through which schools can live stream their classes from school to home and help their students to succeed
*The Gate Academy* – announced free access to video lectures for GATE aspirants and engineering students, across India till April 30.
*Schoolguru Eduserve* – Free access to its Lurningo platform and app to all HEIs for the first three months.
*PlayAblo* – Offering its gamified assessment program for Primary schools (Maths & English Grammar) free of cost for the next 1 month, to all schools across India
*Enguru* – The English learning app is providing 7 day free live classes to learners across the globe with the help of their Cambridge qualified trainers.
*Impartus* - Offering its innovative Virtual Classroom designed for Live online learning for free to all Indian schools and colleges, to ensure that students continue to have live and interactive access to teachers
*Stumagz* - Offering live webinars for college students
*Testbook* - Announced free access to its online courses worth Rs 2.5 lakh to students till March 31.
*Catalyst Group* - offering free access to students for various online classes, for competitive exams.
*LearnNext* – Free access to video lessons and practice tests
*Simplilearn* –  Free access to its courses, based on artificial intelligence, machine learning, Big Data, and cybersecurity, among others, to its users.
*Mindspark* –  60 days free access to all students

Apssdc request all the youth to upgrade their skills through above e learning platforms

Contribution: Dr. Arja Srikanth