Peers Assisted Learning Systems (PALS), a moderated online chat tool, will allow disadvantaged students in middle-school to help each other in learning concepts and solving problems. It seeks to restore the peer-to-peer network in the post-pandemic online schooling world and, thereby, help maintain learning outcomes for students who lack academic support at home, as they are typically the only literate and/or school-going members in the family.
Mohuna Dutt
Head of Open Shelters, Education & Child Development Programs, Calcutta Social Project.
Mohuna Dutt
Head of Open Shelters, Education & Child Development Programs, Calcutta Social Project.
Mohuna joined the Calcutta Social Project in 2015 as a teacher. She now serves as the Head of Shelter overseeing education and ensuring child development. Since the onset of the COVID pandemic, Mohuna has led the online education program for urban poor children. Mohuna studied at K.C.College, Mumbai and the Event Business Academy in Oxford, England.
Dhruva Banerjee
Co-Founder, ProjectSet
Dhruva Banerjee
Co-Founder, ProjectSet
Dhruva helped found ProjectSet, an online platform for work-based learning programs that connects students, employers and educators to collaborate virtually on internships, hackathons and course-based projects. Previously, Dhruva was a strategy consultant with Monitor Company, FOR and Index Partners. Dhruva holds a PhD in Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.