Upthink

UpThink emerged out of a real-life need for high-quality online education in challenging postsecondary subjects. Our founders were academics who had studied and taught at top universities in the US and India, including MIT, Harvard, and IIM. UpThi d India, including MIT, Harvard, and IIM. UpThink emerged out of a real-life need for high-quality online education in challenging postsecondary subjects. Our founders were academics who had studied and taught at top universities in the US and India, including MIT, Harvard, and IIM. After launching a company providing statistical modeling, they realized how difficult it was to find employees who were strong in both statistics and computer programming. So they hired computer programmers and taught them statistics, and they hired statisticians and taught them computer programming. UpThink now offers a full range of services to help partners develop and deliver online courses and manage fluctuations in demand. Our work includes instructional design, content creation and curation, online teaching assistance, online course management, one-on-one student support, and technology solutions for managing learning content and optimizing student learning. As the in-house training team began creating online learning modules to complement the in-person training, they saw that the key to employees learning the material was the human element—one-on-one, personalized interactions between learners and instructors. So they focused on developing scalable online learning that included a highly personalized approach that ensured that every learner would succeed. Since the company’s success depended on the team learning the content, doing online learning poorly wasn’t an option. After seeing our exceptional results teaching statistics and computer programming to our own staff, other organizations started asking us for help designing and delivering online education in statistics, programming, and other skills. What started as a few projects to help out some friends at other organizations led to the launch of UpThink as a separate company in 2004. Through partnerships with online education providers, UpThink has supported more than 3 million undergraduate and graduate students at postsecondary institutions across the US, from research universities to community colleges. We are based in Pune, India, “the Oxford of the East”—home to many of India’s top universities and a hub of India’s growing tech industry. ...view more