NEW
YORK (NNN-Bernama) -- Indian-origin CEO of Datawind, the maker of India's
low-cost tablet Aakash, Suneet Singh Tuli and Massachusettes Institute of
Technology professor Anant Agarwal have been named by Forbes magazine among the
15 "classroom revolutionaries" who are using innovative technologies
to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.
The
Forbes list names 15 education innovators who are "harnessing a slew of
disruptive technologies to change everything from the way we teach grade school
math to how we train the next generation of teachers", reports Press Trust
of India (PTI).
The
publication said Tuli, 44, is the "mastermind" behind the world's
cheapest tablet computer Aakash, "which has the potential to revolutionise
educational access in the developing world."
Datawind
has a backlog of "millions" of orders for the US$35 Aakash tablet.
The
publication quoted Tuli as saying that "I don't care about creating the
iPad killer. I care about the three billion people who can afford this
device."
Agarwal,
53, a professor of computer science at MIT is also the President of edX, the
new combined online offerings of Harvard, MIT, the University
of California at Berkeley
and the University
of Texas
Over
400,000 are currently enrolled in the education programme. "We've created
dramatic access to learning for students worldwide. By reinventing online learning,
we can dramatically improve what we do on campus," Agarwal, who took over
as head of edX in May this year, said.
"EdX
continues to up the ante by increasing partners, classes (seven to dozens for
spring 2013) and innovations, such as virtual laboratories," Forbes added.
Datawind
had won the tender in 2010 to supply one lakh (100,000) Aakash tablets for a
price of around US$49 per unit. A new version of the tablet PC, featuring one
Ghz processor, four-hour battery time, capacitive screen and Android 4.0
operating system, is expected to be launched in India
Among
the other education innovators on the list is Salman Khan, the
Bangladeshi-American founder of Khan
Academy
The
36-year old M.I.T. and Harvard alumnus has so far created 3,400 videos, mostly
science and math tutorials, that have been watched by more than 200 million
people. Khan Academy
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