Technology Enhanced Learning - A Very Useful Under Graduate Engineering Learning

This is a contribution from Rajagopal. Thank you for interesting insight.

If you believe primary education level is not uniform across, rapid commercialization of engineering education has contributed to drop in overall excellence in quality. I may be risking broad generalization.

IITs, IISc and some of the premier institutes have together to provide their complete content on Line. If you have good bandwidth connection, go ahead and download them. Else you can pay and buy the content.

I may be understating the importance of the content. It is a Significant boon to engineering college students who do not have access to quality education.

Technology in Education:
Govt. & IITs have got together to create this massive education reform.. to bring the IIT quality education to all students across the country.
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ (IITs India)

A Global Phenomenon:
This transformation in leveraging IT/Web/Multimedia for is not only in India, but also in MIT & lots of US universities.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/index.htm (MIT USA).

Student’s life is now different:
Definitely a game changer .. Suddenly college students(irrespective of which college they are registered with) now can learn from the best teachers. With just Rs8,000/- you can get an entire video collection for 4 year IIT B.Tech course in DVDs. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/availability1.php

Knowledge worker’s life is now different:

Refresh your subjects free via Online video’s:
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?courseId=1065 - link

How to decide what to buy ?

Traditionally , we all love to visit the market , feel the goods for sale , test them , bargain on the price and bring them home. From vegetables to TVs this buying method is the same. But how do you buy without visiting the showrooms ? Is it possible ?? Off Course... You can do your favourite pas time sitting at home using a computer and connecting to Internet.

If you know where to look for , the world market is open for you 24X7. I am sharing here a website which gives you a god feel of things before you buy. The categories offerred are very wide  , from Consumer durabeles to IT products and you can select from a variety of brands and do all your research before making that important decision. Check this site and change the way you shop,

www.compareindia.in


Catalog shopping is not new to a western consumer . In India , it is just started. It was a fun to see a 500 page catalog book landed at my home from . My two sons spent a week to oggle at all the toys and sports goods in the catalog. Again the same catalog is available online..

http://hypercityindia.com/

Try and explore many more such shopping experience siting at your home.

Cheers and happy shopping...

Moodle - noodles!

If you are a education Institution and want to host your home grown, ever growing own content management, course management system, moodle would be ideal.

Your teachers can host their courses on internet / intra net and have students go over the homeworks, revisions etc and come to class prepared.

Seems ideal for engineering colleagues, Medical colleagues, IT savvy schools and NGOs hosting for IT enabling focussed schools.

http://www.moodle.org  is your solution. Some of your geeky students can rig it up.

Astronomy site in Marathi

 

This is a very interesting website in Marathi http://www.avakashvedh.com/ giving information about Astronomy . As an amateur  astronomer , you can find the details about the positions of planets , details of planetary  activities and much more…

Apparently this website is active for last few years.  This site is made by सचिन सखाराम पिळणकर of Mumbai.

 

 

Create Website In Indian Languages using drupal

I saw this presentation which was very exciting. Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. www.drupal.org

Create Website In Indian Languages using drupal

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Voting Time - Read our politician's blogs

Its is voting time.

In order to become more aware/informed voters, we either have to read a lot of news paper or to attend political rally.

Some of the net savvy politicians and parties have been active in their blogs about their party's views and the personal views of the party luminaries.

For instance, I enjoyed reading the blog of LK Advaniji, honorable leader of opposition and head of BJP party. It is intense and very personal. I could not however locate blog of Prime minister or president of Cong Party( help me if u can).

List of all politician blogs are avialable at One India. . I read Bangalore MP, Rajeev Chandrashekar, Karnataka Home Minister VS Acharya, and i want to read views of MK Stalin.

I hope the blog entries are not carefully prepared views of the media houses of the party they represent. That would be cheating!!!

Read and become aware of what they stand for, and what they want to achieve for their country, mother India.

Local language applications / websites

We visit many websites and access many applications whil we work on our computer. Many of us have came across application which interface with the user in the Indian local language. It will wonderful to share your experiences in letting others know about these applications. The list can also cover the websites which you like to read in local language.E.g. 

When I travel outside of India on business trips, I love to read what is happening in my home town in Marthi . I visit www.esakal.com which is a website of a popular marathi daily 'Sakal" .

I am sure you also have your pet local language sites.  So start listing and drop us a mail.

Cheers.... Sachin