Category: MOOCs

This year, Shark Tank India, the Indian franchise of the popular American business reality show, set foot into its maiden season. Shark Tank India’s premise revolves around entrepreneurs making presentations to a panel of investors, popularly known as Sharks. The entrepreneurs pitch their respective ventures to these sharks decide whether they would like to invest their time and resources in the said venture. This maiden season of Shark Tank India proved to be a matter of pride for NSRCEL, the innovation and entrepreneurship centre of excellence at IIMB, as it…

School of Meaningful Experiences (SoME), a Bengaluru based Education-Technology (EdTech) Institute was established to elevate learning and skills development among students and young adults to the next level by encouraging them to embrace the innovative idea of six Cs – confidence, curiosity, communications, collaboration, creativity, and competence. Dr. Rakesh Godhwani, SoME’s founder and IIMB alumnus, formulated the approach aimed at enhancing participants’ scientific temper and creative thinking.  He was also the Head of IIMB Alumni Association from 2008 to 2014 and continues to teach at the Institute as an Adjunct…

22 November, 2019: The evening of 19th November 2019 at the Director’s Lawns, IIM Bangalore, witnessed a joyful celebration of the fifth anniversary of IIMBx. IIMBx, the digital learning initiative of IIMB, now has over 1.4 million learners from across the world.   Founded at a time when digital learning was still a new concept in India, with a lot of skepticism surrounding its effectiveness and validity, IIMBx began creating courses with a five-member team. With support from the faculty of IIM Bangalore, IIMBx soon grew popular among young professionals…

‘The MOOCs sounds great, but will I get a job after completing it?’ is a typical question we, at the IIMBx MOOCs Programme, often hear when we talk about ourMassive Open Online Courses and lifelong learning.   Converging Marketplace of Digital Learning Credentials Skills Marketplace: Picture courtesy https://www.flickr.com/photos/photobom/36056608455/ The answer is ‘We are definitely getting there,’ and I say that for two converging reasons: Supply: Like any other consumer-driven movement, this recruitment world is also witnessing the slow (yet steady) onslaught of online credentials as students and professionals are acquiring skills through…

The past decade has seen MOOC emerge as a buzzword – much has been discussed about the hype around it, its efficacy, revenue model, academic rigour and so on. But, is MOOC an emerging technology? Hasn’t distance learning been around for a while? How is a MOOC different from erstwhile distance learning? Is it just old wine in a new bottle? What we need to understand is that MOOC is different; it is a pedagogically powerful tool and is structured to mimic the classroom learning as much as possible. In…

Recently we reached out to the previous learners of our MOOC “Innovation and IT Management.” We were hoping to get some insights on how the course helped them and if the course ware can be redesigned for more learner engagement. While doing so, our interaction with one of the students was very inspiring. It emphasized on one of the major drawbacks of classroom learning – Inaccessibility to classrooms. Nabirye Annette Atugonza is a learner from Kampala, Uganda, East Africa. She is an IT specialist holding a Bachelors in business administration,…