How Vedantu Improvement Promise is redefining learning by guaranteeing academic progress: A Fireside chat with Vamsi Krishna, CEO and Co-founder, Vedantu

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.—William Arthur Ward
A teacher is an important figure in the teaching and learning process. And a great teacher is at the core of designing and delivering the most effective learning experiences and outcomes.If you'll look back over your career to date, you'll find vast majority of impactful teachers sharing certain core traits and attitudes that fashioned them to be effective educators - they all cared deeply about their profession and their students.This realisation led to the launch of Vedantu - a live online learning platform that was started to make quality education accessible and affordable to every kid in India. The edtech platform puts into action persuasive student-centred approaches to impart online learning effectively. And at the core of it all is teaching, which is excellent and innovative and empathetic. It hires teachers who help students excel academically and become well-rounded individuals rather than just dispassionately transfer knowledge to students. In short, teachers at Vedantu are teachers by choice and not teachers by chance.
This passion for teaching enabled Vedantu to go beyond the defined terms of providing educational services to launch an unprecedented initiative - Vedantu Improvement Promise, aka VIP. It is set to change the significant lack of responsibility and accountability on learning platforms and assure predictable learning improvement for students. The promise comes with a guarantee that if there is no improvement within a year, the LIVE online tutoring platform will return the course fee, no questions asked. This answers the unspoken question in parents' minds: when a child falters in securing the desired results, why does the onus for improvement only rest with the students and their parents and not the academic platform, school, and the entire education system too. This co-ownership of students' performance is meant to build a steadfast trust with parents and revolutionise the one-way process of providing education.
Here is an FB live session with Vamsi Krishna, CEO and Co-Founder Vedantu, having a fireside chat with Sujit John, Assistant Resident Editor, TOI, about everything that makes Vedantu what it is today. They chat about how it all started with the Lakshay initiative, the subsequent formation of Vedantu, teaching principles that it follows, and finally about VIP and how Vedantu teachers are all geared up for the extraordinary challenge:

Vedantu, as we know it today, provides one-to-one and one-to-many LIVE online classes across 1st to the 12th grade and prepares students for various competitive exams across segments. Courses are delivered in a live real-time, interactive virtual learning environment. The platform also grants free, live masterclasses across subjects on its app, web and Youtube channels.
However, the journey of this esteemed edutech platform, as told by Vamsi Krishna, has been full of over-the-top aspirations, inspiring benchmarks, and logistical challenges of making education comprehensible and matching the quality of teaching by changing the image of the profession. Although teaching has always been treated as a noble profession in India, it has never met the void of passionate teaching.
Vedantu's teaching force is not just thorough experts but teachers by choice who have a passion for teaching; they facilitate students with knowledge and skills that can be employed in classrooms and the practical world. Teachers at Vedantu constantly monitor students' progress based on their in-class and post-class activities and performance and personalise weekly learning plans to ensure progress. These performances and programs are regularly shared during parent-teacher interactions to keep parents involved in their child's progress.
VIP – step in the right direction

Vedantu enables students to access a real-time, robust peer-learning environment just like a real classroom while ensuring unrestricted access to the most skilled teachers from across India with a passion for teaching. Difficult subjects are taught through immersive 3D content, live quizzes, and games to keep students captivated. In addition, Vedantu's innovative LIVE platform supports a healthy real-time exchange between students and teachers to get all their doubts clarified. Additionally, Vedantu's patented Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled Wave technology acts as a unique model by using machine learning (ML) to evaluate each student's learning patterns at distinct points during the class.
Parent involvement in a child's early education is consistently found to be positively associated with a child's academic performance. Specifically, children whose parents are more involved in their education have higher levels of academic performance than children whose parents are involved to a lesser degree. While on one hand, VIP takes ownership of each student's academic performance, on the other, it gives parents constant insights on how their kid is making progress, in a very transparent way - something they aren't accustomed to seeing.
With schools being closed since early 2020 to protect children from the COVID-19 pandemic, chalk-and-board teaching had to shift to digital mediums overnight. It wasn't easy for teachers to adapt to digital education spontaneously, which served as the edtech industry's moment of reckoning. With the disruption having upended the Indian educational system, Vedantu supports students and their worried parents to help students continue and excel at academics.
Disclaimer: This article has been produced on behalf of Vedantu by Times Internet’s Spotlight team.