Offline-A better way to learn online!

BORED HAVING TO ATTEND ONLINE CLASSES SITTING AT HOME ALL DAY?

I know taking online classes all day long can be a bit exhausting but what if there was a better way to do it and you could interact with your friends and learn together just like you used to in the offline mode, and we also know the love and excitement you had for physical education periods during your school hours. They kept everybody motivated through the day and kept the sportsman spirit alive in us. Now imagine having an online platform where students can experience a campus like feeling from the comfort of their own homes, everything structured just like a school curriculum having dedicated classrooms, corridor, game room, staffroom, and playground.

Now you must be thinking, “Yeah Right! Like that is even Possible.”

But what if I say that it is and that’s exactly what we have been trying to accomplish all along. Our platform does all that, maybe not in an exact similar manner but we still try to compete with offline standards.

All about offline! & How it all started?

Offline is a social media platform that we created to solve the very problems that we were having when we first had the vision about a platform like this and now you would be wondering, “what was the big problem!?”.

Okay! Let me tell you all about the problem but first let’s take a step back to early 2020s.

I see everybody working, struggling, partying, studying etc. In all living their normal lives! But then Covid happened, and a nationwide lockdown was ordered, and everything stopped functioning at once, Schools, colleges, factories, markets. It felt like a loud machine that has been running forever, and all the noise that it created was so usual to your ears that you didn’t even notice it anymore but then it suddenly stopped and now there was an odd silence, something like you have never experienced. At first it was all scary and new, but for kids it was still a chance to have that double summer vacation something that they have always dreamt of.

So, weeks went by, and the lockdown kept getting extended and it started becoming more and more frustrating and depressing, major economic sectors took a big hit and people started losing their jobs, national GDP suffered a huge dip but that’s a problem for some other time.

Need for the Project

So, schools and colleges still couldn’t start offline, and they had to start working Online or it would have been too late so that led to the starting of online classes which were pretty dull for most of the students as compared to the offline classes. They lacked interactions, competence, practicality, and excitement that fueled them up through the day. Now the existing methods of teaching online were not working at all, and studies/surveys support our opinion (Surveys have found out that that 92% of students enrolled in 2nd-6th standard have lost their language abilities and 82% have lost at least one of their math abilities).

Working and Benefits

So, we came up with a social platform for educational institutes and tried to structure everything exactly like a school/college campus having dedicated chat rooms for classrooms, staffroom, playground and a mental health centre for students. Educational institutes can just choose from a variety of value packed monthly or yearly plans and then sign up all their students with their institutional email addresses and can avail all our services. Students can also interact with students from other schools or colleges, in all a social media platform for educational institutes.

Mental Health — A Huge Concern!

Mental peace is one thing nowadays that is lost from most of our lives from children to adults everybody is a prey to depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues.

This is because now most of us spend maximum of our time online either scrolling Instagram, watching reels, playing games or any other out of a billion more addictive things found on the internet. Due to all this most of us have lost our ability to focus and concentrate on something that is of real importance such as learning Real life skills, health, and fitness. This issue must be addressed as soon as possible else 90% of the kids will fall prey to obesity and mental health issues.

So we have come up with a concept of having a room dedicated to mental health wellness that is monitored by a certified counsellor 24/7 where students can talk about their issues without feeling insecure and ashamed and also a playground feature that will host regular sports competitions where you can compete online in a healthy manner with your friends.

How Metaverse can help establish new milestones!?

For this project we have always had a vision of this virtual workspace where everybody could interact, and it would feel like that they are sitting right there in their schools and colleges.

Wouldn’t that be awesome!?

So, when a few days ago Facebook introduced the concept of Meta-Verse it was like a dream come true for us. Later down the road we want to explore this world of augmented reality and metaverse, so we might end up revolutionizing the whole online education sector and creating something bigger than we ever expected and help take learning and connecting with friends beyond a 2-D screen and into a Metaverse!

We could also do something for commercial work and office spaces that way and maybe that would solve the problem of finding a real office space in overcrowded cities and will be definitely very beneficial to new start-ups.