CHANDIGARH, India, May 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
WizIQ won the Best Online Education Platform Award for providing access to quality education to students across the country through its learning marketplace and teaching system. The award was presented by Indian Education Congress during the 4th National Convention and Awards on Business of Education, held on May 22, 2014, at New Delhi.
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Over 500 individuals and organizations under more than 40 categories were nominated for these awards.
With 270,000 active teachers, 3.5 million students in more than 100 countries including 1 million just in India, 2500 live classes every day, and 1 billion learning minutes in its virtual classroom, WizIQ is clearly a pioneer in the Indian education industry.
Since its inception in 2006, WizIQ has enabled students to choose from thousands of teachers all over the world to learn online.
WizIQ's recently launched WizIQ learning marketplace features in-demand and popular live instructor led online courses taught by subject matter experts around the world. Tutoring academies like Vidya Mandir Classes and popular instructors like Ravi Handa have their courses listed here to help students prepare for IIT-JEE, IAS, Bank exams, CAT, and ELTS. Working professionals are advancing their careers by enrolling in courses in categories such as Technology, Big Data, Project Management, Business, Finance, Languages, Lifestyle & Wellness and Music on WizIQ.
Teachers and corporations can create a comprehensive quality online course in no time, and teach any learner or employee anywhere in the world. The courses on WizIQ are all created and owned by instructors, not WizIQ, providing complete freedom to educators and corporations to manage and charge for their content any way they want-privately or publicly.
Pursuing its mission to democratize education, WizIQ offers its teaching system for free to educators empowering them to replicate the physical classroom online with its technology. The WizIQ Teaching System is being used by schools, colleges, universities, enterprises and academies all across the world. In India, professors from premier institutes like IIT Delhi, IIT Mandi, IIT Kharagpur, ISM Dhanbad and University of Mumbai, have used WizIQ to integrate information and communications technology in higher education.
WizIQ has also enabled a number of teachers and educational institutions to host and deliver effective Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Some of its very successful MOOCs in India include a MOOC on Vedic Maths conducted by Gaurav Tekriwal, the Founder and President of Vedic Math Forum India and an Open Educational Resources (OER) MOOC for teachers by Dr. Ramesh C. Sharma, Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India.
The platform has been used to live stream conferences and webinars by institutes like VIT Vellore, NIOS and Indian School of Business (ISB), providing an opportunity to both teachers and students to participate in these scholarly events.
WizIQ is available for iPads and Android devices giving teachers and students anytime, anywhere access to the WizIQ Virtual Classroom. WizIQ also provides Desktop App for Windows that can be installed into the computer, providing the users better experience in the Virtual Classroom.
WizIQ Virtual Classroom can be integrated with learning management systems like Moodle, Blackboard, Instructure Canvas, Sakai, Joomla or own website through WizIQ APIs and has a multilingual interface that supports 19 languages, including Arabic and European languages.
About WizIQ
Founded in 2006, WizIQ has evolved to be the first and only online global education marketplace to offer live instructor-led learning, where anyone can teach and learn. The company is successfully leveraging technology to replicate the classroom experience online making it more accessible, for both students and teachers. The WizIQ learning marketplace enables students to choose from courses offered by thousands of instructors. Educators and organizations can create comprehensive quality online courses - with live classes or self-paced instruction - in no time, and teach any learner or employee anywhere in the world. WizIQ is backed by Bertelsmann SE & Co., which runs Random House, and Kaizen, a private equity fund focused on the education sector.
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Media Contact: Jaininder Minhas, [email protected], 91-9815821090, Corporate Communication, WizIQ
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