Education is changing from being teacher-centric to student-centric.  This shift creates several ripple effects on the subject matter, educational tools, student-teacher interaction, and student motivation.  This revolutionary shift is creating a generation of capable children that are impacting the world at a very young age.  The access to information and the use of several new instructional design methodologies are creating learning modules that are highly engaging and effective.   The animation is one such medium and this methodology is gaining popularity and usage amongst educators.  The use of story-telling and scripting is a fresh take on the traditional class lecture which revolves around theory and examples.  Animation captures the gist of the lesson and infuses it into a medium that children just can’t get  enough of. 1 Animation, however, is not just about watching or listening to a video.  It is so much more in PIE – The ...

Praadis Institute of  Education is a nextgen Edtech startup that focuses on personalized and gamified learning utilizing AI, VR, and AR technologies.  The PIE app has multiple learning modules that not just teach the concept but motivate the student to learn and excel because of gamification.  The interesting part of this is the long-term effect of gamification – it is shown in multiple research studies that gamification actually changes the emotional connection that a student has to his studies.  The student becomes engaged and motivated to learn instead of viewing studies as an obligation or chore.   Eventually with practice our design implicitly teaches students how to learn. Learning is a truly immersive process – to master any subject one must learn the theory and then gain practical experience first-hand of the subject matter.  Our students will master their course material because of the design of the subject matter.  Modules like st...