Eudora Education technology revamped

When 22-year- old Nagarjun Palavalli conceptualized ‘Eduora’, little did he know that this would become immensely popular. Palavalli had always been an above average student; he started coding in class six, and came up with this unique learning management system at 22.
Eduora makes the painstaking process of learning simple and easy to grasp, thus enhancing the communication between teachers and students. His LMS ‘Eduora’ has a structure quite similar to a typical social network. Palavalli also says that these LMS systems were originally designed for IT people hired by companies, but it’s the teachers and students who benefit the most from them.
He has won a number of international competitions, and his quest to explore the existing LMS to revamp the current education system led him to create ‘Eduora’. The dynamic entrepreneur did a lot of research as well. He went to various schools that used learning technology and based on the findings, created a prototype for ‘Eduora’. His team includes another fresh graduate called Sooraj Jaiswal who is working to simplify the education system by improving the Eduora continuously. This LMS is not only different because of added features, but because of its low market cost and simplicity. Most of the LMS packages available in the market cost up to $50,000, which is a huge price indeed.
The LMS was initially called ‘Classroom’ and Palavalli did not have much trouble securing funds. He met Pallav Nadhani and Abhishek Rungta of Seeders Venture Capital conference and after the first funding round was granted $25,000 seed capital. This is used to to pay for resources and servers. He says that their LMS has many distinctive features that the traditional ones lack. According to Palavalli, the key features of Eduora are: Network, Simplicity, Communications and Cloud.
Monetary success is not what this amazing state-of-art LMS is striving for; the beta version prices are comparatively lower, and has about 700-users and close to 100-courses within a month of launch. This indicates the fast growing demand of technology in education.

Nagarjun Palavalli has his own views on technology in the education sector in the country. He says that country’s future relies on education, but technology is not used for learning as compared to the West. However, not many schools and colleges in the country use technological learning tools and rely on traditional classroom teaching that becomes banal and rhetoric for many students.

He believes that a computer lab is not sufficient. Instead, we need smart devices that students can carry on the move, so learning becomes a continuous process. Low cost devices like computers and LMS can drive the growth of learning technology, which he strives for.