World Bank recently published its World Development Report 2018 on 'Learning to Realize Education's Promise' - with a great assessment of the current education landscape, the problems that plague it and the interventions that must be acted upon immediately to make learning work for the world. While the entire report is available for consumption on… Continue reading Learning to Realize Education’s Promise: An EdTech Commentary
‘The MOOCs sounds great, but will I get a job after completing it?’ is a typical question we, at the IIMBx MOOCs Programme, often hear when we talk about our Massive Open Online Courses and lifelong learning. Converging Marketplace of Digital Learning Credentials The answer is ‘We are definitely getting there,’ and I say that… Continue reading Walking the Talk: Industry Recognition for MOOCs
Our learner story series continues with 2 different experiences: one from a very experienced professional who joined the IIMBx MOOC family as a community TA, and another who took up a MOOC along with a bunch of his colleagues at work. Both enjoyed the experience in different ways. The community TA for our Statistics for… Continue reading Learning in the MOOC Community
This is what a young lady from the Middle East had to say in our face-to-face session held at IIM Bangalore to mark the completion of a very successful run of our 2nd MOOC, IS110x – Innovation and IT Management. She was getting back to ‘learning’ after a gap of five years and called the… Continue reading Learning has no age limit or boundary
2015 marked the year of the take-off of the maiden journey of IIM Bangalore's Flight MOOC2015! For the entire flight crew at India's top B-school, it was a challenging and exciting year of design, build, test and go-live! As we plan out many more such flights in 2016, here's a quick look at the successful… Continue reading 2015 – The Year of the Take Off
When my 11-year old comes back from school, he gives me a minute-by-minute commentary of what he learnt at school. This is how he learns at school: Discuss latest events from a kid-friendly newspaper with teacher. Watch instructionally designed e-learning videos to understand concepts. Do group assignments such as charts, role play, etc. Solve worksheets and… Continue reading A MOOC-er’s Wish List for 2016
