Mindkap Career Solutions

12/08/2013

India is facing this problem at all levels

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

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...

10/08/2013

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

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

10/08/2013

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

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 With outdated approaches to strategy this can happen quickly and put your business at significant risk, and you may not even know it.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...

09/08/2013

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

The Bersin by Deloitte Analyst Blog

09/08/2013

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

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

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.

07/08/2013

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

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

06/08/2013

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

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

It's a concept called "skills-based hiring."

05/08/2013

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

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.

05/08/2013

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"?

01/08/2013

Myth of "average"

http://edupln.ning.com/video/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...

01/08/2013

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

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.

31/07/2013

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/

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...