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India is facing this problem at all levels

http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/companies-work-towards-skills-gap-in-india/1/193097.html

Skills shortage is costing India dear - Business Today - Business News Santosh Kumar is a typical Indian electrician. Or plumber or local mechanic. The 24-year-old Gurgaon resident tried his hand at several odd jobs before he started training under his elder brother, himself a self-taught electrician, three years ago. Had it not been for his brother, says Kumar, he wou...

Education is "not for profit", isn't it?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/07/kim-ki-hoon-teacher-million-salary_n_3721837.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Education

The Teacher With A $4 Million Salary A teacher that makes $4 million a year? Toto, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

What do you think?

http://blogs.hbr.org/events/2013/08/the-end-of-competitive-advanta.html?utm_source=Socialflow&utm_medium=Tweet&utm_campaign=Socialflow

The End of Competitive Advantage What once worked well may no longer fit today's changing reality. With outdated approaches to strategy this can happen quickly and put your business at significant risk, and you may not even know it. In her latest book, Columbia Business...

When the stakes are so high it is obvious, isn't it?

http://www.bersin.com/blog/post/Explosive-Growth-in-the-Corporate-Training-Market.aspx

Explosive Growth in the Corporate Training Market The Bersin by Deloitte Analyst Blog

Interesting article on "Massively open online courses" (MOOC)

http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCs-May-Not-Be-So-Disruptive/140965/

MOOCs May Not Be So Disruptive After All The hugely popular courses are here to stay, but barriers to the kind of unfettered online education that some once envisioned have proven quite high.

Check out what the faculty at Harvard have to say about "teaching with simulations"

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/list/simulations-feature

Teaching with Simulations

This is how it is out of Campus, better to be prepared

http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-skills-better-than-degrees-2013-8

Bill Gates And His Foundation: Employers Should Focus On Skills — NOT College Degrees It's a concept called "skills-based hiring."

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/06/eight-awesome-apps-for-educators-to-create-display-and-share/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_campaign=Feed:%20kqed/nHAK%20(MindShift)&utm_content=buffer39dd3&utm_medium=twitter

Eight Great Apps for Educators to Create, Display and Share For educators looking to integrate iPads, iPods and other mobile devices, here are eight must-have apps that will make life easier to do things like move files, capture lectures, read PDFs, and much more.

Yes, Technology and Innovation is the need of the hour in every sector to make them more efficient and effective more so in the education sector, but the bigger question is "are the decision makers ready"?

Myth of "average"

http://edupln.ning.com/video/the-myth-of-average-todd-rose-at-tedxsonomacounty

The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty High school dropout turned Harvard faculty talks about how a simple new way of thinking helps nurture individual potential. L. Todd Rose is co-founder and pr...

No one can "ensure" anyone a job, take a look at somethings that can be done

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brazen-life/jobs-after-college_b_3675794.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&ir=Education

Four Things You Can Do During College to Ensure You'll Land a Job When You Graduate Take matters into your own hands and bring a DIY mentality to career planning. Follow these four steps, and four years from now, you'll find yourself with more than a cap and gown: you'll be on your way to landing a great job on your ideal career path.

Simulation is indeed a great tool to learn something, you know about something only when you do it and simulations gives a person that feeling of doing something

http://managingelearning.com/2012/09/14/elearning-simulations-choose-your-own-adventure/

eLearning Simulations: Choose Your Own Adventure Do you remember the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books you may have read when you were little? Each decision you made would correspond with a page number in the book which you were supposed to imme...