Dive Brief:

• In China and India, e-tech company Mobiliya Edvelop is providing digital classroom software to rural students via tablet. 
• The tablets are being used in an initiative sponsored by the Chinese government to connect urban centers with "quality teachers" to areas lacking resources.
• The software allows teachers to teach and interact with two classes at the same time.

Dive Insight:

It's unclear how well students learn from the tablets in India and China without in-person guidance. Mobiliya Edvelop also is implementing an e-mentorship program on one of its test campuses, the Army Institute of Technology in India.

CEO Krish Kupathil told eSchoolNews that his company's products will help Chinese and Indian students become a "future-ready workforce" by "deliver[ing] personalized, collaborative and social learning tools."

Ed tech is hot in countries like India, which has widespread inequity in schools in addition to severe rural poverty. Yet many schools struggle to use even simple technology like a single classroom computer. "As many as 400 educational technology firms have launched in the past 10 years," the Guardian reported from India last May, "yet the quality and longevity of their products is far from uniform."