Empowering Education

Engaging Learning Environment…Power of Technology Unleashed

Information Technology (IT) today, touches every aspect of our life. IT is invisible, continuously evolving and exciting. IT has revolutionized the way we think and react. When technology is scientifically merged with the educational value chain, it greatly enhances every aspect of teaching and learning. The promise of technology extends far beyond what most students experience in schools today. It enables teachers to customize teaching tools on the basis of individual student needs.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs told Businessweek as early as in 2000 in a story exploring the future of educational technology, "We've just begun to use (digital) tools to transform education." However, recently almost a decade-and-a-half later Tom Vander Ark, former executive director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation observed, "Education remains one of the few sectors that information and communications technologies have not transformed." These statements clearly illustrate the potential of the education sector while underscoring the present scenario. This was primarily because, entering the education sector, selling the concept to an educator and weaning them away from time-tested methodologies to technology and getting them to put their money it was next to impossible in early 2000. They might buy the hardware such as a PC with bundled software for their institution. But to convince them to invest in something "invisible" such as IT was almost an impossibility. So, riding the crest of the IT wave in the late '90s and early 2000 when almost every major company was concentrating on making a quick buck servicing global conglomerates in every major industrial sector as well as financial and insurance and even the health sector, by a quirk of fate (as detailed in About Us), Oréll entered the vast, knowledge-rich yet technologically impoverished education sector.