Byju’s is now betting big at English-speaking markets and is at advanced stages of launch in the United Kingdom, United States of America and Australia.
The world is becoming a smaller place every day, and with it, the dreams of children everywhere in the world are becoming bigger. And education technology is enabling them experiencing and fulfilling these dreams.
In a tremendous effort to boost its plans for overseas expansion, Byju’s, India’s biggest e-learning application, is working with media conglomerate Disney to create educational content for primary schools, said multiple sources close to the development. This would also help in building a stronghold Byju’s offers in the K-12 (kindergarten to Class XII) space.
This new strategic association would help the seven-year-old company to serve courses for Class I to Class III students. Currently Byju’s does not have anything to offer in these particular domain.
Byju’s, India’s largest e-learning platform, and US-based Entertainment Giant The Walt Disney Co are planning to launch a co-branded learning app, named Early Learn. This app will be targeting students from kindergarten to third grade.
A standalone app will feature characters from Disney brands such as Toy Story, Cars and Frozen among others for a unique interactive learning experience. It will further be engaging younger children with the video-based tutorial.
The partnership with Disney is in line with Byju’s main vision and goal for expanding beyond India into other large English-speaking markets like the United Kingdom, United States of America and Australia.
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Since October 2018, Byju’s was reportedly in talks with Disney to create educational content for primary schools.
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Divya Gokulnath of Byju’s recently quoted saying, “Technology has played a key role in disrupting this sector and will continue to shape the teacher-student relationship by offering better accessibility, distribution and formats of delivery.”