IIT-IIM grad develops portal to solve e-learning problems

IIT-IIM graduate Manish Kumar has developed a portal, the Curious Minds Institute, to solve all major E-learning issues

Ashish Pandey New Delhi April 4, 2021(source indiatoday.in)

Apart from many challenges, the Covid-19 pandemic has also made e-learning as the need of the hour. As several states announcing the closure of educational institutes due to the second wave of coronavirus pandemic in India, e-learning is becoming mainstream now. Though the method was available since 2016, in the times of Covid-19 and the subsequent need to socially distance ourselves has only propelled e-learning to an all-new level.

Founder of Curious Minds Institute

Manish Kumar, a 33-year-old teacher turned entrepreneur, who is an alumnus of prestigious universities like IIT Kharagpur and IIM Bangalore, has set out to solve this very problem through his new initiative, the Curious Minds Institute.

Manish, who has 12 patents filed in his name for various inventions has substituted the animated forms of experiments with live demonstrations of various scientific on his platform, thereby invoking the curiosity of the students which is a far more effective way of imparting knowledge according to experts. The USP of this change that he is trying to bring about is his portal teaching students experiments that can easily be replicated using household appliances or household items.

Another con that e-learning has always had to battle with is the psychological impact that limiting a student to a room during the process of learning could have. Curious Minds Institute solves this problem as well.

‘’Like the name itself suggests, special emphasis is laid on the mental health of the students and steps are taken to make instill a sense of interest among students rather than trying to bombard students with knowledge that he/she isn’t interested in, which has been the norm ever since the evolution of the Indian education system.’’ argued Manish the founder of ‘Curious Minds’.

He further expressed that Under the programme, LEAP, he would educate hardworking students using various ‘experiential learning’ methods.