Deerwalk Learning Center App Launched! Quality Education Is and Should Be Free!

Getting anything for free is a rarity in this day and age. And getting a quality education for free? Sounds too good to be true!

However, Deerwalk Learning Center (DLC) on 12 August 2025 launched a full platform, including apps on both Android and iOS, through which students all across Nepal can access quality video lectures on major subjects for absolutely free!

What Is Deerwalk Learning Center?

Deerwalk Learning Center is a non-profit initiative under the Deerwalk Education Group dedicated to providing free video lectures to students across Nepal. During the launch event, the DLC spokesperson mentioned that there is quite a gap in the quality of education in Kathmandu Valley and elsewhere in Nepal.

The DLC team sought to decrease this gap, and an idea was born back in 2016. As a part of this idea, teachers associated with Deerwalk Education Group would create quality video lessons and distribute them all across Nepal.

However, there was an issue with making the videos qualitative. Not production-wise. But such that students would not just see the video, they would learn from it. To tackle the issue, the DLC team came up with four methods:

• The video delivery would be done in a classroom-style setting
• Teacher notes would be handwritten instead of PowerPoint slides
• Use local examples to make lessons relatable
• The session would span 12 to 18 minutes

With these methodologies, Deerwalk Learning Center has been creating video lessons and distributing them through offline mediums to schools afar, and their web portal.

Now, the DLC as a platform has come full circle with the launch of their apps available on Android as well as iOS. The app features over 3,500 video lessons in Nepali, English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies based on the NEB curriculum for grades 4 through 11.

Thoughts on Deerwalk Learning Center?

During the launch ceremony, the DLC team held a press conference where fellow media representatives raised a question about whether there were plans to change the platform into a paid modality. Addressing the query, the DLC spokesperson said,

Our goal with Deerwalk Learning Center was never to earn money. It will continue to be provided for free of cost in the upcoming days as well.

Likewise, another media personnel asked why DLC classes were so short, considering that a regular class runs anywhere from 40 to 45 minutes. Another DLC spokesperson responded:

A regular class is usually 40 to 45 minutes. However, in that time period, a teacher arrives to the class, the class greets the teacher and vice versa, homeworks are being checked, discussions are being done, and so on. When we get rid of all that, the actual class where subject matter is discussed is about the same time as our video lessons.

An esteemed guest who had over a decade of experience in the education field of Nepal also followed up on the question, stating:

Yes, like our ma’am said, a standard class tentatively lasts for 12 to 15 minutes in practice. But I would also like acknowledge that students’ attention span is about the same time. So, not only are DLC’s video lessons based on practical timing, they’re scientific too.

While the press conference was going on, I had thoughts like “Are there any plans for people like me, a bachelor’s student?”, “Is it just for the curriculum?”, and “You know what would be great? if we could get similar lessons for skill development,” bubbled in my mind. I could not keep these questions to myself, and finally asked them.

And the answer I got was pretty much what I expected.

We are planning to expand our lessons to Grade XII and undergraduates programmes and we would love to provide lessons on skill development too. However, there is only so much we can handle. So I’m afraid the latter is out of the picture for now.

After all, there is only so much you can provide for free! Welp, at least plans to include people like me are there, so that’s still a win in my books.

Deerwalk Learning Center: Conclusion

The question I asked was very self-centred as I am struggling with my undergraduate degree. However, with the video lessons Deerwalk Learning Center are providing, countless secondary-level students won’t have to struggle the same way.

It even serves as a valuable reference to teachers themselves. Considering all this, I would like to say kudos to the Deerwalk Learning Center team. And I hope that this noble initiative of theirs inspires other institutions to do something similar as well.

App Links: Android | iOS

Web Portal: https://dlc.dwit.edu.np/

(Press Release)

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