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Covid-19 impact: Hybrid model to be the next chapter in edtech sector

2020 was in fact the most exciting year for edtech start-ups, which brought online education to the mainstream

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While Byju’s raised over $1 billion from several top notch PE investors to become the first edtech decacorn of the country, Unacademy became a unicorn.

Samreen Ahmad Bengaluru
The edtech sector saw it all in 2020 — decacorns, unicorns, consolidations, and legal battles. 

Though online education has seen over 15 years of meaningful existence, 2020 will be known as a milestone year for the sector, with the Covid-19 pandemic forcing students and parents to embrace e-learning as the most viable way of studying. While the world is expected to come out of the impact of the pandemic sooner than later, experts believe that e-learning is going to be part and parcel of everyone’s life co-existing with class-room or face-to-face teaching giving rise to a hybrid model. 

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