Amazon To Shut Down Its Online Learning Platform in India

Amazon will be shutting down Amazon Academy, an online learning platform it launched in India for high-school students last year. From a report: The retailer says it will wind down the edtech service in the country in a phased manner starting August 2023. Those who signed up for the current academic batch will receive a full refund, it said. Amazon officially launched Academy, previously called JEE Ready, early last year, but had been testing the platform since mid-2019. Academy sought to help students prepare for entry into the nation's prestigious engineering colleges. The service offered curated learning material, live lectures, mock tests and comprehensive assessments to help students learn and practice math, physics and chemistry and prepare for the Joint Entrance Examinations (JEE), a government-backed engineering entrance assessment conducted in India for admission to various engineering colleges.

The summary adds nothing the the headline

[Editorial Failure]

Riddle me this: Why? No, not why the summary isn't a summary, we know that. Why is amazon doing this? That ought to've been in the summary.

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[ShanghaiBill]

Why? Why is amazon doing this?

Because others, such as Khan Academy [khanacademy.org], are doing a better job and giving it away for free.

A better question is: Why did Amazon ever think Amazon Academy was a good idea?

That ought to've been in the summary.

Then what would we talk about?

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[bumblebees]

"someone" thought Trump University was a good idea also at one point. So why would not AmazonU be a good idea in some mbas mind?

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[LostMyBeaver]

That India pisses a lot of people off. If India invested a pittance into their people, it could become an AMAZING country.

Search "running water in India".

I would have provided a link, but you just have to submerge yourself in that. So long as the Indian government hates their people and wants them to suffer, education won't help. India is one of the worst countries on earth.

I don't remember who I first heard say it, but "Civilized people don't live in places where children die from diarrhea"

A country isn't

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[UPi]

Cost cutting, most likely. The Bezos' of the world need more Money, so in a routine evaluation of which business units are making or losing money, the Academy likely came up sort and got the axe.

It must have been a difficult decision (as far as the marketroid class will tell you), but you have to do what is right do The Bezos and the Investor class, lest you face the wrath of the capitalism gods!