Thanks to Professor B Nath Duttaji for sharing a wonderful view regarding MOOC.
During the last decade some tools like Flipped Classrooms, Disruptive Innovating
Colleges, MOOC, etc., are being adopted, experimented in advanced countries. To
me this is so required because:
1.
It is in line, a natural course, with continuous improvement making teaching-
learning adaptable to climate.
2.
Advanced countries have realized, e.g., that 10-20% US students coming out of
Harvard, etc., are not adequate for total growth of the nation as 90-80%
students are not in the main flow.
3.
As we know that according to the available technology, we have been adapting
improved tools in education like films, film strips, video cassettes, OHP. LCD,
etc. Today we are involved in ICT tools like surfing. This is bound to happen as
a natural growth and each country needs to adapt it suitably. The present trend
is to meet the teachers for interaction only for access to information is
anytime,anywhere, anybody. Within next 20 years this will be fully be replaced
with more advanced tools! For example, while in sleep one can learn, one can
program brain as per career path set, knowledge capsules, etc.
4.
However,I must run my business in-spite of such improvements. Freeium is a part
of strategy for survival and profit making. It is just a business strategy.
5.
No business is risk free. Higher risk higher profit! Nothing wrong!! But we need
seriously think of social responsibility otherwise results will be catastrophic.
But hopefully balancing, nature hardly permits imbalancing, is done that is a
natural process, one cannot survive killing others, human beings are a wiser
species after all!
Regards.
Yours,
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On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 07:46:20 +0530 wrote
> Business schools face a challenging futureBy Vasant Dhar, professor at NYU
Stern School of BusinessThe delivery of online content for free is disrupting
the traditional lecture-based model of educationTuition-based universities are
doing something counterintuitive: competing with each other to deliver their
content online and for free. Last year Stanford University offered free courses
on machine learning, database systems and artificial intelligence to more than
100,000 students. Many other professors are also making their material available
online.Indeed, some universities offer courses where the class preparation
requires watching the lecture online and the synchronous part of the class â€"
whether face-to-face or online â€" is devoted to problem-solving and discussion.
Technology is disrupting the traditional lecture-based model and many believe
this new paradigm of instruction is superior in important ways. Consumers can
view the online lecture multiple times at their own pace until the concepts are
clear and the instructor’s time can be used more creatively than in the
traditional lecture format. And of course, the real kicker for the consumer is
that it is all virtually free.· Why are brand-name universities giving away
intellectual property online for free? These institutions are in the early
stages of executing a global strategy to capture new markets, and plan in the
future to apply the “freemium†model to make money from their IP. In a
freemium model â€" which companies commonly use after creating a sizeable user
base on the internet by offering a free product â€" the free part ultimately
becomes bare-bones relative to the premium parts, for which people are
eventually required to pay. However, this new “knowledge market†model is not
without risk.Educate, Empower, ElevateProf. Bholanath DuttaFounder, Convener &
PresidentMTC Global & Knowledge CafeParticipant: United Nations Global
CompactISO 9001:2008 Organizationwww.mtcglobal.org /www.knowledgecafe.org Cell:
+91 96323 18178Email: president@knowledgecafe.org president@mtcglobal.org
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