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Category – Faculty Speaks
The Great (MOOC) Adventure
It was an early, nippy morning in August 2019. After I entered the office, having greeted everyone in my path cheerily, and probably forgetting to swipe my ID card at the...
Why do we need a course on business communication?
In September of 1996, in the final year of my engineering, I took stock of my overall academic grades and the picture wasn’t pretty. The placement season was about to start and I...
The MOOC journey – a faculty perspective
We kick off the week with insights on digital learning from Professor G Shainesh – Professor of Marketing at IIM Bangalore. Professor Shainesh has over two decades of...
Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human
Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan specialises in organisational behaviour and human resource management. She has been extensively involved in designing and delivering leadership...
Reinvent your work experience!
What are the things that get you excited to wake up each morning and start another day, sing another verse, write another chapter in the evolving story of your life? What keeps...
My Journey with MOOCs
[This blog post was written about a month back by Professor Vasanthi Srinivasan. Her course Introduction to People Management is live on edX. In this blog, Professor Srinivasan...
Category – Expert Insights
Lights, camera, auction!
Do you watch movies? Have you ever come across a distressed protagonist, up against the hammer of an auctioneer? No, Thor was not the auctioneer here. But let your imaginations...
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) Enrichment Analysis: Data-Driven Insights
MOOCs exploded into the academic consciousness in summer 2011, when a free ‘Artificial Intelligence’ course was offered by Stanford University, California. The course attracted...
Platform – the building blocks of your MOOC
Access to the internet means access to anytime, anywhere learning. Today, anyone with an internet connection can choose from a platter of courses from the world's best...
Category – Instructional Design
Digital Learning: Approaches and Pedagogies Beyond Video
The era of immersive computing offers us a unique opportunity to transform learning. ‘Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)’, an emergent technology, has been one such opportunity...
On creating your MOOC Curriculum
Picture this… You’ve been offering a course that’s very popular amongst your learners; your classroom is a testimonial to how effectively you engage with them. You’ve now decided...
On Diversity and Inclusion in your MOOC Narrative
Open access is an essential aspect of MOOCs and in keeping with the openness, it is important to ensure inclusion and avoid bias or prejudice in our instructional narratives....
Category – General
Initiating a MOOC
It was an exciting day of the year 2020 for me, when I got my first MOOC. It was in the month of November. The initial documents of the course which comprise of course outline,...
IIMB ranks #3 in MOOCs
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has claimed the 3rd spot in MOOC Lab’s Business School Rankings 2020 for its provision, design and delivery of Massive Open Online...
Why take Digital Learning seriously?
Amol Bhave’s journey to MIT stands as a testimony for the immense potential of online education.
Importance of Communication in a Workplace
Communication is defined as the exchange of information, thought and emotion between individuals or groups. In other words, communication plays a fundamental role in balancing...
Behind the scenes: MOOC edition
In my two months as an intern at IIMBx, I never spent time on set for a shoot; I only saw the content in its finished form, after the edits and graphics had been placed on the...
Learner story: Entrepreneurship
One of the biggest advantages of MOOCs is their wide reach. Distance and time are no longer constraints for the learner and teacher in a MOOC platform. Because of their versatile...