dailyeducationupdate
Thursday, 31 January 2013
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Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Education achieves Top Priority for Needs for Innovation in Business
Education
deserves credit for all the innovation it brings into an individual’s
life. The key to success lies in the hands of education. The business
world plays a major role in the global economy and improving the
economic scenario of the world. The business leader’s aim was to
give a new dimension to education hence they are working on creating
new policies that can be implemented in the academic podium.
Lately
it was found out that the
“GE’s annual Innovation Barometer”
was targeting a change and newness in the academic surrounding. Some
of the changes that they are working on are as follows:
- Schools and colleges should support industrial culture by tying up with business organisations. This way at the earliest students will get fair ideas about business tactics and will able to implement innovative ideas when working in business firm in the future.
- Another thing that the survey pointed out is the business sector did not have faith in the education system as its rank went down drastically over the last one year, though it was found that the US business professional’s belief in the education system had increased.
- Tech-friendly schools that were introduced recently are supported by the business oriented organisations and companies. For example the “Academy for Software engineering” was established by the support of “Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson”. Even different other local industries helped in creating these tech schools.
- Schools which are sponsored by the corporate world have their own critic and they feel that students will be more mechanical in their learning and will not give any space to practical learning. They will not use their brain for critical analysis and academic learning will simply be a waste as they will not be able to implement any of it in their life.
- It has also been said that this kind of implementation is not always a success as in the early years this kind of attempt had failed to create any kind of impact in the business firm neither did any good to the educational zone.
GE
survey has made all the effort to look into the pros and cons of the
relation between business and education. It has indeed taken up all
the responsibility to give a new dimension and innovation to the
business sector.
Monday, 21 January 2013
Ethics as a Subject should be Incorporated as an Important part of every Syllabus
Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. The term comes from the Greek word ethos, which means "character". Ethics is a complement to Aesthetics in the philosophy field of Axiology. In philosophy, ethics studies the moral behavior in humans, and how one should act.
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| Ethics and Morals: Timeless and Universal? (Photo credit: stephenccwu) |
Michael
taught ethics to a group of carpenters at a part time college for
certain duration. When his wife and mother in law came to know about
this, they were quite amused. His mother in law stated that they were
the correct group to be taught ethics. In fact, his wife’s colleagues
were eager to know whether anyone cleared this course. Everyone
seemed to be amazed at this.
But
instead of being amazed at the situation, we should be actually
worried. Carpenters are not the only one to be taught this subject.
There are many others who need to learn ethics. Businessman as a
group are often believed to be involved in unethical practices which
they tend to justify on the basis that they are only doing business
as if they are doing a part of their job. Then ideally there should
not be any difference between them and criminals.
If
we consider politicians then the situation will be clearer.
Politicians are often considered as unethical as they often tend to
get involved in malpractices just to stay in office or get elected.
They don’t shy away from lying, pandering to the lowest common
denominator to achieve their means or spending the tax payer’s
money to meet their own requirements.
While some people
don’t care about right and wrong, good or bad, most people fail to
differentiate it and many who can are reluctant to take adequate
measures. The concept of ethics needs to clear from the school level
when a child’s mind is fresh and they are eager o learn new things.
Yet we see, most of
the K12 schools don’t think it necessary to incorporate “ethics”
as a subject matter of study in their syllabus. They think that
teaching about obedience, laws and rules and moral characteristics
are enough. Even most business schools only impart classes on
business laws and practices. In spite of so many nationwide scandals,
and corporate malpractices highlighted in the national and local
newspapers yet business schools have not incorporated ethics as a
subject matter.
What majority of us,
fails to realize is that ethics is not the study of what is socially
or legally correct, accepted or tolerated. Ethics is actually the
study of what is right and wrong i.e. it is the sense of discovering
and implementing reasonable general principles that helps us to
decide what to do and what not to do.
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Future of Online Learning in 2013
The craze for studying through distance
learning is desired by majority of the students who are high school
graduates. They are looking forward to pursue their undergraduate
courses through online distance mode. They know the superior benefits
of these courses and how it will have a positive impact in their
future. Every year the academic pedagogy tries to bring about a
renovation in the system so that the students can benefit from the
education they acquire.
It has been estimated that soon online learning would budge into mainstream curriculum as the growth of fusion learning that will include innovative technologies becomes the important base of the education podium and later could lead it to a high ranking position. Some of the researchers believe that 2013 could be promising for the online learning education system. Some of the points that they would want to highlight are as follows:
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It has been estimated that soon online learning would budge into mainstream curriculum as the growth of fusion learning that will include innovative technologies becomes the important base of the education podium and later could lead it to a high ranking position. Some of the researchers believe that 2013 could be promising for the online learning education system. Some of the points that they would want to highlight are as follows:
- About 18 years back online learning had been introduced when it was hardly given much importance as traditional way of acquiring education was considered the best form of learning. But now it is on the way to become a priority for the interested aspirants.
- Hybrid learning is becoming central to education as it combines both campus and online learning. This enhances the education standard and quality and hence students become more enriched with skill and knowledge.
- The online learning system is going to follow a distinct strategy to implement new methods of learning for the students. The researchers are mainly targeting on making it the base for higher education so that people can study the flexible way.
- Some of the online learning resources basically target at technical support, marketing and course design so they are not really created in-house. Their basic aim is to contract out so that this system of learning is available for all kinds of students.
- This system of learning provides open text books to the learners as students get all learning materials with just a click of their button.
- Students can make use of all kinds of e learning tools which includes tablets, kindles, mobiles and iPads.
- The online course is highly flexible that reduces the long term course expenses yet look after the learner’s tasks which includes assignments and projects.
- Overseas students can obtain international degrees through this mode of learning.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Thursday, 10 January 2013
Free Online Course Providers in the US and UK
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| E-learning short courses (Photo credit: London College of Fashion short courses) |
With time the
educational domain has come up with new innovative ways of learning.
Online mode of learning has become the modern trend in most of the
countries. But the most reputed among them are the UK
and US online
learning providers. From the past one decade they are providing the
best kind of education to the students from all over the world.
UK is mainly known
for their Massive Open Online Course
(MOOC) podium which has been credited for the excellent education it
provides to the candidates worldwide. But you cannot look down upon
the US online learning platforms that offer the same kind of high
quality academic facility to the students. It therefore gets pretty
difficult for the individuals to decide where it would be best for
them to do their online degree courses.
Coursera
the US online learning contributor is no less in power as millions of
students enrol for their higher studies. The faculty of this online
educational organization comes up with the most standard form of
learning for the students that allows them to earn the best
recognized degree. These days students are more relied on the online
programs as it is the most convenient and feasible way of completing
higher education.
Moreover it is
evident that it has become very necessary that people are well
qualified for good jobs but studying in good universities in colleges
in the UK and US is very expensive. The creation of these online
learning plinths has given education the form of simplicity and hence
the aspirants can learn with ease from some of the most recognised
universities and colleges in the UK and US.
Another British
based online learning podium popular among the people of UK and
Western Europe is Futurelearn.
The people here prefer doing their online course from this arena as
it provides one of the best kind of education to the students online.
It has also been found that more than 2000,000 aspirants from all
over the world have registered for the popular courses given by the
institutions in Coursera.
However the three most popular online learning providers in the US
are
- edX
- Udacity
- Coursera
The
online learning arenas are therefore rising in demand among the
aspirants as it is the most feasible form of education for the
students. Online education has now become an integral part of the
academic platform.
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