PUNE: Expanding the reach of the micro-schooling concept in India, Dreamtime Learning Hub is set to add another micro-schooling hub in one of the largest IT cities, Pune. Located at Kalyani Nagar, a prime residential and commercial hub in eastern Pune, the hub aims to provide an interactive and immersive learning experience. The hub is partnered with Goenka Education and named Goenka Education’s Dreamtime Learning Hub.  It is aesthetically designed and offers learning experiences with a perfect blend of cutting-edge technology.

The company launched its first micro-school in Hyderabad in March 2023 and within one year, it received a favorable response from parents and students across the city.

Micro-schooling is a community-based concept that exclusively focuses on hyper-personalized curriculum and is also becoming an emerging trend in the Indian market. Many parents, such as kids from affluent families, HNIs, or the entertainment industry, are shifting to micro-schooling due to its flexibility, personalized learning, and competitive costs compared to traditional schools. It is also driven by a growing demand for flexible education options and has a smaller student-teacher ratio.

Lina Ashar, Founder of Dreamtime Learning Hub, said, “We are excited to expand and open our first micro-schooling hub in Pune, following the success of our hub in Hyderabad. It is exciting to see the adoption of personalized learning among parents compared to the traditional model. This huge transition has been phenomenal over the past year, and our positive response in Hyderabad increased our pace to strengthen our presence in other major cities. We have observed a huge population of nuclear families in the city, and it is a challenge for every parent to balance between their work life and their child’s education. To help them meet the gap, our micro-schooling hub will prove to be a one-of-a-kind school focusing on personalized learning.  With this, we aim to emphasize the importance of a hyper-personalized curriculum and believe education should be a life-changing experience for every kid.”

The first microschooling hub in Pune provides tech-enabled experiential learning for learners aged 3 to 16 years old. It also brings an exclusive community of 180 learners who can co-create and learn alongside the child in an experiential, engaging, and collaborative environment. The hub also adopts a collaborative approach and focuses on social-emotional learning.

Sudhir Chandra Goenka, Chairman of Goenka Global Education said, “I am proud to foster a strong association with Ms Lina Ashar and drive her legacy and her dream project to new heights. Creating a distinctive path for young minds, she has dedicatedly worked hard to transform the concept of learning and teaching methodology. We have been continuously thriving in our presence in the education segment, and over the years, we have built a learning community that inspires children. This partnership will add our recognition in society and expand the image of Ms Lina Ashar as an industry expert in hyper-personalised learning”.

Giving a wider realm to personalized learning, Dreamtime Learning Hub offers exceptional facilities that cater to the diverse learning needs of students. The facilities include the community hub, studio space, drone, robotic space, learning hub, tree house, animal petting corner, and more, providing learners with opportunities that promote academic and personal growth.

With these best-in-class facilities, Dreamtime Learning Hub paved the way for future expansion. Hence, the company aims to replicate its model in other academic hubs such as Bangalore, Chennai, and Delhi.

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MUMBAI: India’s largest interactive entertainment platform, WinZO, is selected to be featured on the government-owned and developed mobile app store mSeva. WinZO is the first gaming & interactive entertainment platform to be available on mSeva, India’s only indigenously built app store launched by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). The partnership with mSeva is to further the government’s mission of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ as WinZO is available in 12 vernacular languages with over 100 million users from Tier 2 to Tier 5 parts of Bharat. 20% of users make their first-ever digital payment on WinZO.

Speaking about the partnership, Saumya Singh Rathore, Co-founder of WinZO said, “We are elated to partner with mSeva, an app store under the aegis of MeiTY, for the Indians by the Indians. This partnership is in sync with WinZO’s mission to build a world-class game tech product to serve every household in Bharat. mSeva will help us increase our reach multiple folds and give India the gaming experience it deserves.”

The move is also aimed at breaking Google’s monopoly over the selection and distribution of applications and high commission charges. Today, the Indian mobile market is heavily dominated by android with a 95% market share and this leaves developers with only Google Play Store as an option to publish and distribute their apps. It levies a commission in the range of 30% for in-app purchases. This negatively impacts the revenue of the developers and has long-term implications on IP/ content creation in the country because of the lack of viable revenue models.

mSeva, on other hand, does not have any distribution charge for not just delivering government and other public services but also for private players in health, education, agriculture, financial, online payments, social welfare, food, transport, and energy, among others. It has created the digital infrastructure to help businesses set up low-cost and quick-to-build apps that can be built using scalable technology. More than 1000 apps-based services including news, social media, payments, etc are available on the mSeva app store. These include MyGov, Paytm, etc. WinZO is also among the early private adopters of the app store and plans to promote mSeva as a way to download the app among its potential users. 

WinZO hosts over 100 games from third-party game developers from all across the country. It has a unique micro-transaction-based business model that lets game developers and studios generate 100X revenues through its 100 million user base clocking over 3.5 billion microtransactions per month. The social gaming pioneer also created employment opportunities for a diverse set of sections which includes over 500 translators who are mainly stay-at-home housewives, college students, retired government employees, and 75,000 regional micro-influencers who distribute the app in every corner of the country.

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