Unacademy learners can now get first-hand experience of its various offerings in person. The learning portal has just thrown open the doors of its first on-ground store and three more offline stores are lined up.
The first Unacademy store is located on Pusa Road, Delhi. The store will act as a touchpoint for educators and learners before their online journey begins.
“The journey which started with a YouTube channel to democratise high-quality knowledge for everyone is taking a new shape with our Unacademy stores,” said Gaurav Munjal, co-founder and CEO, Unacademy Group, during the virtual launch announcement.
The stores or experience centres, as the company calls them, are planned to allow learners a better understanding of the platform as well as online learning. Learners can benefit from on-ground career counselling at the store. Unacademy plans to bring in top educators to interact with learners. These
“With these stores, we are taking a step towards creating a community of like-minded learners. We hope these experiential stores with expert and educator connections, libraries, classrooms and much more will help learners gain significant insights into their chosen career paths,” Munjal said.
Choosing a minimalistic, modern and open design, the stores will be segmented into separate areas offering a plethora of facilities.
“Students of Classes XI and XII and students preparing for competitive examination still need some amount of hand-holding. More learners from these categories can come to the store with their parents,” said Munjal about expectations from the stores.
In the next phase, three stores are set to open in the Tier-2 cities of Kota, Jaipur and Lucknow. Explaining the choice of locations, Munjal said these cities are well-known competitive examination preparation hubs where learners could benefit from the Unacademy stores.