India’s leading E–learning protagonist Prof MM Pant, who is also a disruptive education technology enthusiast, recently did a week-long course on MOOCs learning. The course taken by 145 educationists, educational professionals and scholars including from Sweden, UK, Bangladesh was perhaps first of its kind learning course using Whatsapp in India. The best outcome of this ‘disruptive’ and very useful course …
Chiphen Rigpel – an ambitious human capacity building project funded by Government of India and launched by The Royal Government of Bhutan in partnership with Government of India, on the sidelines of the SAARC summit held in Bhutan has successfully completed 5 years after it was initiated on April 30, 2010. This project was designed to empower the people of …
Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe is the new AICTE chairman: Prof. Anil Dattatraya Sahasrabudhe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati has taken over the charge as the Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Prof. Sahasrabudhe, an alumnus of BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli is a Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He …
ON JULY 1, PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHED HIS PET and very ambitious ‘Digital India’ initiative formally though it has been operational incrementally in some forms like ‘MyGov’ and others in past several months. Befitting to the occasion, Prime Minister Modi eloquently worded his dream about this initiative. “I dream of a DIGITAL INDIA where: High-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation… 1.2 …
By Rupesh Kumar Shah, CEO, InOpen Technologies EVEN TODAY THE BASICS OF language and arithmetic remain the ever sturdy foundation upon which all real life pursuits draw their application, however, these have been disrupted by information and communication technologies (ICTs) in 21st century. Together these technologies include computers, the Internet, telephones, television, radio etc ubiquitous, unassumingly stealthy are rendering us hooked, …
QCI to focus on Manufacturing and Services The Quality Council of India (QCI) on February 8 said it would focus on manufacturing and services sectors and infuse improved quality standards and target 10 lakh small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the next three to five years. QCI signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with American Society for Quality (ASQ), a …
