New Delhi: Amazon has its foot on everything, be it cloud-computing, device manufacturing, voice-driven AI or drone-delivery. In another step forward, the e-commerce giant has now set its eyes on the education technology market for primary and secondary schools, a region that Apple, Google and Microsoft have already risked on.
The company has unveiled Amazon Inspire, a program that features search, discovery and peer reviews on thousands of education materials. It also aims to provide educators access to upload and share free digital teaching resources, which could help develop instruction and student learning outcomes.
Amazon Inspire, which is in its beta stage, is available to teachers across US with the market set to grow in the coming months.
Inspire is also open to publishers and other content providers who want to contribute.
“Amazon joins educators from around the country in recognising the power of digital learning to transform the classroom, by creating a personalized, engaging learning environment for all students,” said Rohit Agarwal, general manager of Amazon K-12 Education.
This is not Amazon’s first education venture. In 2013, the company acquired TenMarks, a math instruction site. Also earlier this year, the New York City public schools awarded Amazon a three-year contract worth an estimated $30 million (Rs. 203 cr approx.) to provide e-books to its 1.1 million students.
