Despite near-universal school enrolment in India, millions of children progress through grades without mastering foundational skills. Classrooms are highly heterogeneous, yet teachers are required to teach one syllabus at one pace. This leaves many students behind while limiting teachers’ ability to respond to individual learning needs. Rote-based instruction, limited diagnostic feedback, and constrained teacher capacity further weaken conceptual understanding and student confidence.
Ei Mindspark was created by Educational Initiatives to address this systemic gap between schooling and actual learning. The innovation emerged from decades of large-scale learning assessments that revealed persistent misconceptions and wide learning gaps across grades and geographies. The question was not whether students were in school, but whether they were truly learning.
Mindspark combines cognitive science, high-quality pedagogy, and adaptive technology to diagnose each learner’s current level in real time and personalise the learning pathway accordingly. Unlike non-digital or static teaching-at-the-right-level approaches, Mindspark’s technology-first design enables continuous diagnosis, instant feedback, and dynamic adaptation at scale. This allows personalised learning to reach millions of students across diverse contexts without being constrained by classroom size, teacher workload, or geography.
Mindspark uses AI-based algorithms to enable personalised learning for students. Using Ei’s two decades of expertise in EdTech & student assessments, it identifies base learning levels through screening tests and adjusts the learning paths with each question in Math, English and language.
Its adherence to the school curriculum, insights from student usage and question accuracy help teachers to both take control of the activation of topics and address the learning gaps within their classroom. Its implementation in all settings helps students from all demographics access quality learning. Being device agnostic, it can be set up in school computer labs & after-school centres, and also accessed remotely across digital devices, both through browsers and mobile applications. On-ground training & teacher capacity building lead to ICT integration in schools.
3rd-party evaluations have shown that it delivers at least 2x the learning gains compared to non-users, and it does so cost-effectively.
Since 2017, Ei Mindspark has expanded from just over 12,000 learners in India to more than 500,000 students today. This growth has translated into a parallel increase in teacher impact from approximately 350 teachers in the early years (at an average of 1 teacher per 35 students) to over 14,000 teachers currently supported through Mindspark-enabled classrooms and learning programs.
The innovation has scaled from a limited early footprint to adoption across 14 Indian states through government partnerships and institutional programs, reaching diverse geographies including urban, rural, and tribal contexts. Internationally, Mindspark has seen rapid uptake, with student usage growing by over 500% in the UAE and 100% in South Africa over the last two years.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mindspark rapidly adapted for at-home use, enabling continuity of personalised learning when schools were shut. Over the past decade, Educational Initiatives has systematically addressed infrastructure, training, and support barriers that limit EdTech adoption in resource-constrained environments by working closely with governments, teachers, and implementation partners.
The innovation’s technology-first design has enabled it to scale personalised learning efficiently across large public systems. Looking ahead, Mindspark is targeting a reach of 10 million learners by 2030, alongside building public and policy salience around the effective use and procurement of evidence-based EdTech at scale.
To remain relevant to evolving education and workforce needs, Ei Mindspark has expanded beyond foundational literacy and numeracy to include Computational Thinking and Coding. These modules integrate online and offline activities so that students can develop problem-solving, logic, and digital reasoning skills even in low-infrastructure settings.
A key example of this evolution is the Amazon Future Engineer–Ei Mindspark Program, implemented in partnership with Amazon in Telangana, India. Through this initiative, coding education was introduced to tribal students, 76% of whom are girls, many accessing structured digital learning for the first time. In addition to adaptive coding instruction, Amazon employees volunteered as mentors, conducting career-awareness and STEM exposure sessions to build aspiration and real-world relevance.
Recognising that students in underserved government schools are often excluded from emerging technologies, Mindspark is now evolving its content, pedagogy, and delivery models to extend beyond academic remediation toward future-ready skills. This includes redesigning modules for multilingual contexts, low-connectivity environments, and teacher-led blended implementation.
Through these modifications, Educational Initiatives continues to strengthen Mindspark as a platform not only for improving learning outcomes, but for democratising access to 21st-century skills, ensuring geography, gender, or income do not limit students’ futures.
Free trial for Mindspark available for private schools - https://www.mindspark.in/
Process:
a. Click on Start Free Trial and sign up using mobile number
b. Select Grade and Board
c. Select the topic
To request a trial of the Mindspark platform for Indian government schools, we can create a demo ID for you. Write to us at impact@ei.study
