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E-Learning com­pany iProf Learn­ing Solu­tions, which offers a per­sonal edu­ca­tion tablet device and runs a chain of Wi-Fi-enabled e-learning cen­ters across India, has launched a new edu­ca­tion solu­tion for tablets, Xtr­a­Class, which com­bines school cur­ricu­lum along with test prep con­tent for Engi­neer­ing and Med­ical exams.

The com­pany states that this solu­tion will offer inter­ac­tive study mate­r­ial for classes 9–12 and com­pet­i­tive exams like Com­mon Entrance Exam (CEE) which will be the entrance exam for both IITs and NITs from 2013, All India Pre Med­ical Test (AIPMT) and Char­tered Accoun­tant Com­mon Pro­fi­ciency Test (CA-CPT) along with a 24×7 fac­ulty inter­ac­tion ser­vice, iProf Live, which allows stu­dents to con­tact pro­fes­sors of their choice either through the Inter­net or through a toll-free phone num­ber to get their doubts solved.

Con­tent: The study mate­r­ial will com­prise of video lec­tures, con­cept nuggets with 2D & 3D ani­ma­tions, dig­i­tal notes library and a ques­tion bank. iProf claims to have more than 300+ hours of con­tent includ­ing audio and video lec­tures, dig­i­tized notes and prac­tice tests.

Stu­dents can use any of the three tablets offered by iProf includ­ing AI, Galaxy GT P1010 and HCL AM7, to access this con­tent. iProf added that it will also enable schools hav­ing wi-fi routers to access iProf ser­vices over a secure con­nec­tion, thereby allow­ing stu­dents to access any con­tent addi­tions and upgrades on a real time basis. The com­pany has part­nered with IT com­pa­nies like IBM, Wipro and Sify to imple­ment an end to end solu­tion for con­tent man­age­ment and delivery.

Tie-ups: iProf claims that over 25 schools in cities like Jaipur, Patna, Agra, Bhilwara, Boondi, Jha­lawar, Kas­ganj across Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and Mad­hya Pradesh have adopted their Xtr­a­Class solu­tion and over 3,000 stu­dents are expected to ben­e­fit from this solution.

In April 2011, iProf had raised Rs.22 Crores in Series A fund­ing from Nor­west Ven­ture Part­ners (NVP) and IDG Ven­tures India (IDGVI) and accord­ing to an annual report filed by them, iProf had reported a net loss (before tax) of Rs 78.83 lakhs for the finan­cial year ended 31st March 2010, with the total turnover being 17.95 lakhs.

Sim­i­lar devel­op­ments: Ear­lier in the month, E-learning startup Edu­tor Tech­nolo­gies had intro­duced an Android based edu­ca­tion solu­tion called ‘Aug­mented Class­room Solu­tion (ACS)’ through which it offered learn­ing mate­r­ial like dig­i­tized text­books, mul­ti­me­dia mate­r­ial, inter­ac­tive con­cept maps and assess­ments com­ple­ment­ing the school syl­labus on Android-based Tablet PCs.

Prior to this, Bangalore-based Lim­ber­Link Tech­nolo­gies which deliv­ers engi­neer­ing con­tent to engi­neer­ing stu­dents through an appren­tice pro­gram called ‘Jed-i‘ (Joy of Engi­neer­ing, Design, and Inno­va­tion), had raised fund­ing from Accel Partners. Aptech had also part­nered with Hungama to offer edu­ca­tional con­tent on dig­i­tal plat­forms which was recently deployed on Airtel’s DTH plat­form through an inter­ac­tive value added ser­vice called iEnglish.

In March 2012, cloud-based edu­ca­tion com­pany Across­World Edu­ca­tion had part­nered with the Delhi-based com­pany Go-Tech, to launch a low cost edu­ca­tion focused Android tablet called ‘ATab’ which offered three years free access to AcrossWorld’s Edu­ca­tion Bridge plat­form and was priced at Rs 5000.

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