Orient BlackSwan Smart App - Augmented Reality & QR Codes

The Orient BlackSwan Smart App serves as a comprehensive tool that enhances the content of your Orient BlackSwan books by providing relevant digital resources tailored to curriculum-specific needs. This app is packed with numerous practice activities, engaging animations, videos, audio assistance, and much more, significantly augmenting the utility of your Orient BlackSwan textbook.

In this version, we are excited to introduce functions such as Augmented Reality Experiences and QR code access to digital materials. Augmented Reality allows for the superimposition of computer-generated visuals onto the real world, opening up new avenues for learning and exploration, while QR codes facilitate quick, one-tap access to compatible digital content.

Important Information:

1.Augmented Reality and QR code scanning features are currently available only for select titles and will expand to additional books in the future.

2.This app is specifically intended for use with Physical Chemistry: Problems and Solutions at this time. More titles will be incorporated subsequently.

3.The Augmented Reality and QR code functionality utilize the device's camera to identify markers within the books. Users should ensure that their camera components are working properly.

Our Company

Orient Blackswan Private Limited, also known as Orient BlackSwan, is one of India's most renowned and respected publishing houses. Established in 1948, our publishing has consistently focused on maintaining the highest standards of quality. We publish in many subjects and languages for a wide range of interests and fields of study:

School

Our reputation in School publishing is well-established, being founded on our expertise in delivering cutting-edge content and high-quality service to schools in India and abroad. We publish, market and sell books in most subject areas, in English and other Indian languages, from pre-primary to higher secondary levels for CBSE, CISCE and State Board schools. Our comprehensive publishing programme for schools includes in its scope:

• Coursebooks  • Workbooks  • Supplementary Learning Materials • Library Books  • Atlases and Maps  • Teachers’ Resource Materials  • Digital Resources for students and teachers  • Blended Learning Courses  • Digital Learning Management Systems

We stay up-to-date with the latest trends and innovations in education, the National Education Policy (NEP) being the most recent and powerful guiding force in our journey. Our content—whether English, Hindi, Mathematics or Science—consistently reflects a student-centric, responsible and holistic approach. It places a strong emphasis on values, life skills and citizenship skills, across Indian and global perspectives. Additionally, the content is supported by a variety of exercises and practice materials to reinforce key concepts.

Perfectly aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP), most of our titles are designed specifically to fulfil all its Curricular Goals and Competencies for all stages and the Learning Outcomes for all grades, as specified in the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

In recent years, our focus has steadily expanded to include the newest and latest pedagogies and technologies in education:

HTML-based Orient BlackSwan Smart Books  embedded with HD quality animation, audio support, slideshows, picture galleries, interactive activities, question paper generators etc, hosted on the Orient BlackSwan Teachers’ Portal.

Orient BlackSwan Teachers’ Portal a one-stop shop for all the resources a teacher will need to teach our courses.

High quality Orient BlackSwan ONE On Education webinars and other free educational resources such as Mongabay, Humanising Language Teaching and Mongabay Kids to support teachers.

Orient BlackSwan Smart App for students with AR experiences, QR-linked resources such as animation, audio support, slideshows, picture galleries, interactive activities, karaoke etc.

a state-of-the art Learning Management System which includes courses in English, Maths, Science and Social Studies as well as Spoken English and Spoken Hindi Programmes.

Orient BlackSwan Centre for Professional Development (CPD) an online teacher training platform with self-paced online training courses by world-renowned instructors for Indian school teachers.

Gul Mohar, our flagship course for the teaching of English, is now in its TENTH EDITION. First published in 1974, it has gone past its  golden jubilee, a rare feat in itself. Generations have learnt from Gul Mohar and have themselves gone on to teach Buzzword, Raintree and Magnolia are some of the other courses  that have firmly established Orient BlackSwan at the forefront of English Language Teaching (ELT) in school education.

We are also recognised for the superior quality of the titles we publish in other curricular domains. Major series such as the Ahead series in Maths (MathsAhead), Science (ScienceAhead), Social Studies (GettingAhead with Social Studies), and Computer Science (ComputersAhead), have been extremely successful across the country. The Inspired series for Science (Inspired Science), and Social Science (Inspired Social Studies and Inspired Social Science), is popular in CISCE schools. The new NEPtune series (NEPtune Science), (NEPtune Maths) and (NEPtune World Around Us) are powered by the curricular goals and competencies urged by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF).

We have always believed that it is critical for the learner and the teacher to benefit from new and effective pedagogies and this conviction has created many FIRSTS.

CONCEPTUALISED Gul Mohar as the first Indian course designed by Indian ELT (English Language Teaching) experts for Indian teachers and children in Indian classrooms, at a time when all other English textbooks were imported from the UK

INTRODUCED audio CDs alongside the Onward English textbooks in the early 1980s

INITIATED the concept of groundbreaking semester and term book titles, launching Sangam with GulMohar nationwide as the lead brand

PUBLISHED the first ever Indian series on Peace Studies, titled White Dove

DEVELOPED the Orient BlackSwan School Atlas, created entirely by our in-house cartography department

DESIGNED thoughtfully visualised and comprehensive support material for teachers

CREATED game-based multimedia learning materials for students with Advantage Multimedia CDs

PIONEERED teacher training workshops for the first time in the 1980s, a tradition we continue to this day

In addition, we work very closely with schools at all times through the academic year; and the quality and the efficacy of our content has been endorsed by millions of Indian teachers and school children. We cherish our relationship with them, and value their support and feedback. All the teams in our School section (publishing, marketing and sales) work together with the deep belief that everything we do must be in the best interests of the children who use and learn from our books.