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30/07/2019

Is there any real difference between one LMS and the other? -

Democracy and free market give us the right to choose. But when it comes to technology products, even the most knowledgeable individual can get perplexed. This issue gives you a pointer to realize that one LMS can be different from the other, while most people believe them to be similar in all respe...

30/07/2019

Every car which runs on petrol or diesel has an engine. This is called an internal combustion engine. Buses and trucks have these kinds of engines. Diesel locomotives have also a diesel-run engine. While all these are called engines, we know that they are different from one another though each of them runs with the same principle. They are different because they are used for different purposes and manufacturers build them with different levels of quality and functionalities. [ 308 more words ]

28/06/2019

The Dark Side of Technology in the form of Deepfake Videos -

Technology is a double-edged sword. Most of us do not internalize it even though we are aware of it. In this issue, we bring you an article from the HuffPost about the sinister impact that deepfake videos can play in our lives. In contrast, the soul of a start-up from HBR tells us that there is som...

29/05/2019

Are you sometimes confused between online education and e-learning? -

So, finally the most anticipated event of the year is over, and the real work on the ground starts. Also, Board exam results have been out for some time and year-after-year grind for engineering and medical studies aspirants are on full swing. Are our exams really preparing our students for college....

28/05/2019

You may not be, but most people are. Most people think ‘online education’ means the teacher and students are all logged in into a system and the students are attending a lecture delivered by the teacher over the internet. By extension, they also imagine ‘e-learning’ to be a store-house of pre-fabricated learning contents only which students access anytime and there is no teacher delivering any classroom lecture live over the internet. [ 295 more words ]

You may not be, but most people are. Most people think ‘online education’ means the teacher and students are all logged in into a system and the students are attending a lecture delivered by the te…

29/04/2019

Imagine yourself sitting in the front row of the audience watching a live theater play and you record the entire episode using your mobile phone or camcorder. Do you get the feeling of watching a movie when you replay the recording at home? Or to experiment further, show it to a friend or a family member who was not with you in the theater and show them the ‘movie’. [ 248 more words ]

Imagine yourself sitting in the front row of the audience watching a live theater play and you record the entire episode using your mobile phone or camcorder. Do you get the feeling of watching a …

27/03/2019

Those who don't vs. those who can't -

Welcome viewer. In every issue, we bring to you interesting articles from the world of learning, technology, and beyond..... This issue covers an interesting insight into how to understand the great modern day malady of ADD ( Attention Deficit Disorder),  how to stand up for yourself,  and a metho...

13/03/2019

Those who don’t use Internet have no advantage over people who can’t use Internet . Forgive me for paraphrasing Mark Twain who said “ Those who don’t read books have no advantage over people who can’t read books “ . He said this almost a century ago , now same can be said of online world too. Don’t talk about the future of online education ,the future has already arrived . 315 more words [ 318 more words ]

Those who don’t use Internet have no advantage over people who can’t use Internet . Forgive me for paraphrasing Mark Twain who said “ Those who don’t read books have no advantage over people who ca…

23/01/2019

Typically do’s and don’ts form a major part of the preaching eco-system. Do’s are recommendations and don’ts are warnings – this is how we all believe them to be. This blog is meant for all those enthusiast would-be e-learning providers who easily fall into the trap of hyper-control mindset that the current-day technology so easily provides and encourages too. Learning as an activity is not always fun. [ 591 more words ]

Typically do’s and don’ts form a major part of the preaching eco-system. Do’s are recommendations and don’ts are warnings – this is how we all believe them to be. This blog is meant for all those e…

31/03/2017

Why your most satisfied students do not talk about your courses in social media

Social media has taken the world by storm and every business can count on its satisfied customers to get good word-of-mouth publicity through social media except the commercial online education industry - so says our lead contributor. Coming to real world learning techniques, who better than Bruce L...

30/03/2017

Many times we are informed through our social media accounts or emails that our friends, relatives, business contacts, or even casual acquaintances have purchased some product or other from so and so seller. At times, we come to know again from the same electronic channels that some product or service is liked by our contacts. These messages are automatically circulated by the platforms where we have our online presence primarily with the objective of creating a good word-of-mouth atmosphere about the product or service concerned. [ 322 more words ]

https://quampus.wordpress.com/2017/03/30/why-your-most-satisfied-students-do-not-talk-about-you-in-social-media

Many times we are informed through our social media accounts or emails that our friends, relatives, business contacts, or even casual acquaintances have purchased some product or other from so and …

24/02/2017

Part 1 of this blog talked about the psychological states called affective dimensions. Now, let us we look at another study conducted in year 2001 by Barry Kort, Rob Reilly, and Rosalind W. Piccard of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in which they have proposed the following model relating phases of learning to emotions. If we super-impose the two diagrams mentioned in the two parts of this blog, a very interesting observation follows. [ 161 more words ]

https://quampus.wordpress.com/2017/02/24/what-does-research-say-about-emotion-affecting-learning-behavior-part-2

Part 1 of this blog talked about the psychological states called affective dimensions. Now, let us we look at another study conducted in year 2001  by Barry Kort, Rob Reilly, and Rosalind W. Piccar…