US-based Online Learning Company Udemy Is Bringing Web Learning Closer to Home In India

 

Udemy, the worldwide commercial center for online learning and teaching with more than 30 million understudies and 42,000 educators around the world, has declared the widening of their activities in India with a worker center point in Gurgaon.

India is one of the organization’s quickest developing markets, with income and learners increasing twice as much year-over-year. A neighborhood nearness will empower Udemy to keep improving and bringing  the learner and teacher experience closer to home.
Established in 2010, Udemy is a  web based learning alternative that helps people, organizations, and governments gain necessary abilities to be considered in the present worldwide economy. Based on the reasoning that not all instructors are found in customary study halls, the stage permits specialists wherever to create seminars on a large number of themes and offer their insight with the world. At Udemy, learners  have exposure to a range of sought after aptitudes including public speaking, programming, and marketing.
Udemy courses are in more than 50 dialects that can be seen on the web, on a cell phone, Apple TV, and through Chromecast. Furthermore, learners studying with Udemy can download and see the courses disconnected or even adjust video quality to suit low – bandwidth places. Read more of the original article (here).

 

What Hollywood Wouldn’t Tell You About India’s Education System

The present Indian education framework does not place too much emphasis until pupils are in Grade 1. Children from poor families as well as children with both working parents are at a disadvantage. Those from rich families experience earlier brain stimulation. Multidisciplinary education is lacking. Eight and ninth graders are in less desirable environments. College students don’t have disciplines which allow them equal left side and right side brain development. The situation calls for real change. Perhaps this is an opportunity for Edtech designers to assist. Read more in the original interview with Princeton professor Manjul Bhargava (here).

4 Facts About Common Misconceptions of Teaching With Technology That Will Impress Your Friends.

The advancement of innovation is disturbing conventional enterprises and changing each part of our life. In training, the merger of innovation begins to recreate the educating and learning procedure and leads to a new instructional method. Despite the potential for incredible guarantees, innovation has not been completely acknowledged by teachers and beliefs differ significantly about the advantages of support for Ed Tech. While many educators, developers, and researchers support the use of EdTech. Some misconceptions naturally cause apprehension. By continuing to read this article you may be able to clear up some misconceptions you may have regarding the use of Innovative technology in teaching and learning. Please read about four misconceptions discussed in the original article (here).

What Wikipedia Can’t Tell You About When Introducing ICTs Into Low-income Educational Situations.


One nation’s instruction emergency circumstance might be (more or less) another nation’s yearning. While talk in a few environments might be about how new advances can help change instruction, in different environments it is about how such apparatuses can help training frameworks function at a fundamental dimension.
The potential employment of data and correspondence innovations – ICTs – are progressively part of contemplations around training arranging in the two sorts of situations. One test for instructive policymakers and organizers in the remote, low pay situation is that most models (and ability, and research) identified with ICT use originate from high-salary settings and conditions (ordinarily urban, or if nothing else peri-urban). One outcome is that innovation empowered ‘arrangements’ are transported in and (kind of) ‘made to fit’ into all the more difficult conditions. When they don’t work, this is taken as ‘proof’ that ICT use in training in such places is insignificant (and a few people go so far to express that related talks are therefore untrustworthy).

There is, fortunately, some developing reasoning blending around different kinds of standards and methodologies that might be valuable to help control the arranging and usage of ICT in instruction activities in such conditions. Read more of the original article (here).

How Online Education Colaboration helps Vocation Training.

A very good example of the use of online education occurs in Nigeria. Orion Edutech, based in India, has commenced the provision of online vocational training in Secondary Schools across Nigeria. This unique vocational training program which brought together various stakeholders was organized for students of secondary schools in Nigeria in conjunction with the Indian company. Read more (here).

Where? When Happiness, Not Grades Will Be The Best Since Sliced Bread?

Surely you remember going to school and being pressured either by your parents, relatives or friends to achieve high grades.  That pressure continues for many pupils and students  from Kindergarten to University  Worldwide.  However, that will be a thing of the past  for some lucky children in India. Why? Because  there are plans to open a School  in Chennai, India  where  Students’ Happiness instead of their grades  will count. To read more click (here).

Can the Internet end Poverty? Facebook’s Founder Mark Zuckerberg is convinced of its potential!

 
 
 Without a doubt the Internet’s ability to generate people to people contact, as well as to assist organizations worldwide has been proven and Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has plans to further capitalize on this rather fascinating means of bringing people together worldwide. Zuckerberg told the 70 th annual U.N. General Assembly that our generation faces the important challenge of connecting the world. Zuckerberg pointed to the more that 4 billion world inhabitants who presently lack an online voice. This mirrors the U.N’s estimate of half of the world’s population not having Web access, especially females, which affects their education and health. Zuckerberg is of the opinion that making the  Internet accessible to everyone can end poverty, aid the resettlement of refugees, as well as aid in times of crisis.
 

The 193 U.N member states now have committed themselves to 17 sustainable developmental goals geared to eradicating poverty and combating inequality during the next 15 years. The initiative also wants shared peace and prosperity. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the goals were  “a to-do list for people and planet.” Zuckerberg, U2 lead singer Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, British entrepreneur Richard Branson; Huffington Post editor Arianna Huffington; Colombian singer Shakira and others signed a declaration with comments “The Internet belongs to everyone. It should be accessible by everyone.”

It is left to be seen if these world leaders and other notable figures will deliver on this initiative. In the meantime we should seek to make  better or wider Internet access of  greater importance in our respective communities.

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