Enrollments in Online Trainings Expected to Reach 1 Million Yearly by 2025: Report

Internshala Trainings, the e-learning arm of Internshala, recently brought out the yearly ‘e-learning trends report’ highlighting the growing inclination of learners towards online learning. Observing a steep growth of 17x in enrollments over the past 6 years, from 2015-2021, the platform projects that there would be 1 million students registering for online trainings, in a year, by 2025. Interestingly, students’ participation in online trainings grew by 142% in the past one year alone, indicating how quality education and up-to-date teaching pedagogy is being preferred by learners and working professionals to upskill across India.

As per the report, increasing job prospects in the field of technology and online marketing led to the popularisation of trainings like programming with Python with 26% enrollments, and digital marketing and web development with 23% enrollments in each. Other trainings amongst the top 5 popular skills that students learnt in 2020-21 included AutoCAD and machine learning with 14% enrollments in each.

To focus on learning, avoid distraction, have access to additional information while learning simultaneously, and ensure timely completion and submission of assignments, 57% of the learners chose to study on a desktop or laptop while 43% study on their mobile devices. The report also suggests that 38% of the learners enrolled in an online training to get an internship or job opportunity and 37% of the learners wanted to learn a new skill. Getting a certificate, building their own project, and fulfilling college requirements were other major reasons why most of the learners chose online trainings.

Interestingly, learners' dedication towards timely completing the modules, assignments, quizzes, code challenges, and industrial projects is also growing leading to 69% of the learners successfully completing their trainings and attaining their learning objectives. Womens' participation in online courses was also predominantly evident with 44% enrollments in the popular courses.

Another major highlight of the report is that the highest number of enrollments were registered in online trainings from tier-3 city learners with 41% participation. This gives an insight into how learners from small towns are defying geographical boundaries, staying productive, and making the best use of resources available to them. 37% learners from tier-1 whereas only 23% learners from tier-2 cities chose online trainings to upskill. April to June is the most popular period when learners spend their time learning new skills through online trainings. Enrolments in May were the highest, 6.42 times the number in October, which highlights how learners focus on staying productive during the summer months.

Addressing the increasing popularity of online trainings among learners, Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder and CEO of Internshala Trainings said, “New-age job opportunities require young learners to hone and continue updating their skill-set for career progression. Young graduates and professionals prefer online trainings as these are affordable, short-termed, self-paced, practice-based, and ensure knowledge building anytime, anywhere.

“We are constantly striving to make a world-class product by introducing new beginner-level trainings, specialisation courses, engaging gamification elements, and advanced assessment techniques to make learning accessible to all and to provide the best services to our learners,” he added.

12,000+ Work-from-Home Internships for the Indian Students - A COVID-19 initiative by Internshala

Launch of Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home — A COVID-19 initiative by Internshala

12,000+ work-from-home internships for the Indian students of all educational backgrounds.

25th May 2020, New Delhi: The recruitment and training platform, Internshala has launched its COVID-19 initiative, ‘Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home’. The initiative invites students from all educational backgrounds to apply to more than 12,000 work-from-home internship opportunities. The interested internship seekers can apply to the opportunities by 5th June 2021.

The initiative offers internships in varying profiles including marketing, web development, business development, human resources, content writing, digital marketing, app development, and many more. Each internship under this initiative comes with an assured stipend. The highest stipend being offered is ₹ 45,000 per month.

On the launch of the initiative, the founder and CEO of Internshala, Sarvesh Agrawal said, 

With the second wave of COVID-19, the summer internship plans of Indian students were affected yet again. To help these students make the most of their summers, we have launched the ‘Chalo India, Let’s Work From Home’ initiative. Through these internships, the students will be able to have a learning packed summer internship experience from the safety and comfort of their homes.

For more information or to apply to the internships, visit: http://bit.ly/wfh_int

Coronavirus - Internshala Announces Free Access to its Online Training Programs for Healthcare Workers' Children

Internshala has announced free access to Internshala Trainings, its e-learning platform, for the children of healthcare workers. As a thank you gesture for all the people working in the healthcare sector at the forefront of India's fight against COVID-19, the children of all such staff will be provided free access to the online training programs on Internshala Trainings till 15th April when the lockdown period ends. 

Children of the employees working at a government recognised hospital (public or private; doctors, nurses, paramedical staff, cleaning staff, ambulance drivers, receptionists, billing, diagnostic, and people employed in any other department of a hospital) who are studying in a government recognised school or college (public or private) would be eligible to avail this benefit. The students can choose to learn a number of skills including programming, data science, business communication, design, and creative writing on Internshala Trainings through its short duration online training programs. Under this initiative, the facility will be made available to 1000 eligible students first and will gradually be rolled out for all eligible students across India.

Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder and CEO of Internshala, said, “While we are at home, the healthcare workers are out there screening and treating COVID-19 patients, putting in extra hours, and taking risks for our safety and well-being. Through this initiative, we want to express our gratitude by supporting their children in whatever ways we can.” 

“As the students are not able to attend regular classes, through this they can make productive use of their time to learn a new skill or build a project. In fact, based on a UNESCO report, 1.37 billion students all over the world are out of school and colleges right now due to COVID-19 and online learning has to step in to support the students at such a critical time”, he added.

For more details visit: bit.ly/Internshala-Initiative

 About Internshala

Internshala (https://internshala.com) was founded in 2010 and is India’s largest internships and trainings platform with over 8 Mn students as users. With the mission to equip students with relevant skills and practical exposure through internships and online trainings, Internshala aims to be the boarding pass for every student’s dreams.

Internship with Icons like A.R. Rahman, Terrence Lewis, Internshala Launches 4th-edition of Intern with Icon (IwI)

India’s largest internship and training platform, Internshala, has launched the fourth edition of Intern with Icon (IwI). Through this initiative, the students will get an opportunity to apply for internships with 15 legendary icons from different walks of life. Various iconic personalities including A.R. Rahman, Arvind Kejriwal, Terence Lewis, Shoma Chaudhary, Prof. H.C. Verma, Smt. Maneka Gandhi, Amit Luthra, Dr. J.P. Narayan, Ritesh Agarwal, Kamla Bhasin, Prof. C.N.R. Rao, Medha Patkar, Deepa Malik, Dualist Inquiry, and Shri Tarun Vijay are going to be a part of this initiative.

IwI is one of Internshala’s flagship initiatives that bring once in a lifetime internship opportunities for the Indian students wherein they get to intern with the icons they idolise, work with them, and learn straight from them. This edition brings internships for students in various fields like research, content writing, business development, web development, talent management, journalism, client servicing, and physics experiment creation. The students can apply to the internships starting today until 15th June 2019.

On the launch of Intern with Icon, Sarvesh Agrawal, the founder and CEO of Internshala, said, “From the last 8 years, Internshala has been on a mission to bring meaningful opportunities for the students to help them get ahead in their careers. Intern with Icon is one of our initiatives which aims to create unique internships for the students and guide them towards a successful career journey”.

He added, “In today’s competitive time, Intern with Icon offers opportunities to the students that will not only give them an edge over their peers but also a chance to learn life-skills and industry-relevant skills directly from their icons and take inspiration from their experiences”.

For further details or to apply to the internships, visit: http://bit.ly/IwI-4

Internshala Trainings launches The Data Science Challenge for Students

With the expansion of data analytics industry across India, data science has become the hottest industry to work, offering opportunities in data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, business analytics, and data science. In a bid to encourage the students of India to learn this top in-demand skill and build a career in data science, Internshala Trainings has launched The Data Science Challenge. The students can apply for this contest by 5th June 2019.

During this challenge, the participating students will be undergoing a 6-week online training and learn data science from scratch. In this training, the students will be given a comprehensive introduction to data science and will be taught the basics of python, statistics, predictive modeling, and machine learning through video tutorials.

The students will also be getting a hands-on learning experience with various assignments, assessment tests, and quizzes. On completion of the training, the students will be required to create and submit a project and the top 3 contestants will be awarded with cash rewards worth INR 65,000.

On the launch of this content, Sarvesh Agrawal. The founder and CEO of Internshala said, “The production of an enormous amount of data every minute, has given rise to the need of professionals who can organise this data and provide well-informed and innovative business solutions. This is a promising trend for the students to learn this hot in-demand skill and pursue a career in data science”.

He further added, ”Through this contest, we aim to inspire the students of India to add this coveted skill in their resume and pursue the ample opportunities being created everyday in the field of data science”.

For more details or to participate in the challenge, visit: http://bit.ly/D-Sci