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 …

ALISON.com set up in 2007, is regarded as the pioneering MOOC platform of the world and has over 7 million registered learners, a million of them from India. Mike Feerick, Founder and CEO of ALISON.com was in Delhi recently to understand local needs and also enter into an alliance with Bhopal-based education & training network AISECT. Autar Nehru had a …

Bhopal-based education group AISECT, has in a big way, embraced MOOCs mode of online course delivery and is set to emerge as the biggest player in India after its strategic tie up with Ireland headquartered MOOCs platform ALISON. AISECT known for its IT skills course delivery in semi-urban India is planning to offer over 2000 courses by next year. All …

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore announces a new digital learning initiative – Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based online certificate series – titled ‘Fundamentals of Business Management.’ The high quality six-course series, which will have Hindi transcripts as well, is open for enrollment now. IIMB Director Dr. Sushil Vachani said, “Our MOOCs programme, especially the Fundamentals of Business Management, …