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
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...
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
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 With outdated approaches to strategy this can happen quickly and put your business at significant risk, and you may not even know it.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...
09/08/2013
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.
07/08/2013
Check out what the faculty at Harvard have to say about "teaching with simulations"
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/list/simulations-feature
Teaching with Simulations
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
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
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.
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/
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...