Oversize #16: How Teams became the education sector's pick

Every weekday at 9 am, 15-year-old Maulik, a student at Gurgaon’s Amity International School, heads to a desk in the room adjoining his bedroom and turns on his laptop. Like millions of other students in the country—and around the world—he has been attending classes virtually. In his case, on Microsoft Teams. His mother too, working from home, attends parent-teacher meetings via Teams.

Online learning in the form of “massive open online courses”, or MOOCs—think Coursera or Unacademy—has been around for years but has lacked the real-time collaboration and feedback loop of classrooms. Most often, online degrees are considered inferior to …

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Abhishek Baxi

Abhishek writes on technology trends, gadgets and SMBs, and has over a decade of experience—both as an industry watcher as well as a participant. He quit Microsoft in 2011 to become an independent digital consultant, and to write more, travel randomly, watch a lot of movies and wake up late on weekdays.

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