Krishna: Content alone fails without interactive levers like doubt-clearing and motivation
Vamsi Krishna · @vedantubrand founder on funding, building a unicorn and ed-tech ft. Vamsi Krishna · Oct 25, 2021 · at 6:58
Vedantu co-founder Vamsi Krishna explains his core pedagogical philosophy comparing static online content against interactive live teaching.
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“It's not just content which does the trick. It is that whole service lever around interactions, motivation, you know, doubts, a lot of these things which goes in creating a superior learning experience and an outcome.”
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