The biggest problem with #Edtech startups like #Byju's and #Vedantu is they focus on tech rather than teaching !
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Thankfully, they are gradually recognising the importance of the human touch, which is why so many of them have started adding teachers ( AKA coaches and mentors ) to their online training programs .
The problem is that most of the " teachers " employed by these EduTech startups are treated as widgets , who are trained to do their job in a mechanical , detached fashion , in order to earn their salary , rather than because they care about their students !
Unless the teacher learns to be passionate about teaching and cares about the kids , they will never be effective .
This is as true in the classroom as it is in Edutech startups .
The problem with startups is that the problem gets amplified significantly, because there is one teacher for so many students . Even worse, there is no direct connection - it's all digital , and it's very hard to add a human element to the relationship .
This is one of the reasons why the results with a lot of these digital online courses for students is so poor.
While it's easy to scale up the tech, it's much harder to recruit caring teachers !

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