Highlights of Admission and Information Seminar of myBskool

The admission and information seminar of myBskool was very interactive and informative. Mr. Ranganathan, Head of Business Development, of myBskool spoke about the advantages of doing an online management program.

Ranga told the analogy of ‘Unconference’ and how online social media learning brought out the benefits of an Unconference. Unconference works on the principle that the collective wisdom of the audience/learners is often more than the speaker/teacher. Anyone in the audience can come and speak about the topic the expert speaker has started.  The cloud-based social learning platform of myBskool allows to scale the number of learners to even millions, and so the interactive learning can be massive and collaborative.

Ranga showed a demo of a myBskool video on Economics, the quick streaming on both a PC as well as Tablet. He spoke about the benefits of the PGDM programs offered by myBskool and IMT Ghaziabad.

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Online vs Face-to-Face Education - Learning Outcomes

Key report findings include:

• Over 6.1 million students were taking at least one online course during the fall 2010 term, an increase of 560,000 students over the previous year.

• The 10% growth rate for online enrollments far exceeds the 2% growth in the overall higher education student population.

• Thirty-one percent of higher education students now take at least one course online.

• Reported year-to-year enrollment changes for fully online programs by discipline show most are growing.

• Academic leaders believe that the level of student satisfaction is equivalent for online and face-to-face courses.

• 65% of higher education institutions now say that online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy.

• There continues to be a consistent minority of academic leaders concerned that the quality of online instruction is not equal to courses delivered face-to-face.

Will Babu Get a Management Qualification?

Babu was involved in his family business right from the age of fifteen. He did his under graduation in economics and continued working in his father's medical equipment factory. He traveled abroad for the business expansion and was very successful as a manager. 

However, one day in the factory, Babu overheard one his juniors pass a comment about him. "When half-baked managers run a business, you expect such decisions." He wondered why his junior, a management graduate from a popular institute made such a remark. 

Babu told this incident to his father. His father said, " I was able to manage and keep loyal employees, even though i did not have a management degree. But these days, employees can be both shrewd and vindictive. I think you should try to get an executive MBA."

myBskool is right place for Babu to pursue his management education. The one year PGDM from IMT Ghaziabad is completely online. Babu can access the video lessons from his smartphone or laptop even when he is travelling. And he will get course materials from IMT and will get a wealth of knowledge about management from practicing industry experts. He will be a more confident manager and a future entrepreneur in his own family business. 

Learning at Home

Zubeida is in the family way. Her family is very conservative and wants her to stay at home till she delivers. Zubeida is thrilled to be a mom and enjoys her wait. However, she does not want to sit idle at home. She was a HR executive in an IT firm and has a cumulative work experience of eight years.

She was talking with her friend Vinod and was exchanging sweet nothings. Vinod told her that he was doing a PGDM from myBskool. He was doing a specialization in Human Resources and the course material will be from IMT Ghaziabad who are leaders in the online education space. Zubeida was wondering if she could pursue the course and keep herself occupied. Vinod told her that she should give it a shot.

Online Management Education - Panel Discussion

The interactive panel discussion about 'Online Management Education" went on well on 8th June, 2012. The expert panel had Prof. M.J. Xavier of IIM Ranchi, Prof. Sriram - executive Director of Great Lakes Institute of Management, Prof Ramanathan - Sr Director of ISB, and Mr.Swaminathan.K - CEO of myBskool. Mr.Chandu Nair was the moderator. 

The discussion started of with a reference to Online Management Education as an evolving animal that can take any shape in the future. There is a need for holistic managers and not managers who are specialists with a big head ( good analytic skills) but a lean torso ( poor soft skills). 

'Rethinking the MBA - Business Education at Crossroads' - a book by Harvard professor Dr.Srikant Datar was mentioned often as giving new insights about the subject. A popular saying goes like, "A fool with a tool is still a fool." But, technology will supplement and not substitute classrooms. And teachers will become tutors and facilitators.

Online Management Education is known as the Facebook of Education. But, people have doubts about the quality of relationships and networks in a social learning network. The panel felt that the intensity of any relationship is more important than the length. So, the learning design and student engagement process must be fun and really interactive. For example, the AIDS vaccine was found by a set of young gamers who never met face-to-face. Their interactions were purely online. They saw each other only at the awards ceremony.

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IMT Ghaziabad PGDM - Learn from the Leaders

It is surprising to know that thousands of students enroll for an executive MBA that is not recognized or accredited.What is the point of slogging for one or two years to get a management qualification that is not recognized anywhere?

How nice it would be if a top-ranked b-school can qualify you as a management professional? You are no more a Tom, Dick, or Harry. IMT Ghaziabad has won several awards for its excellent Distance Learning Program. And the online management programs it offers is recognized throughout the world. Don't you want to learn from the leader? Click here to download brochure.

Panel Discussion about Online Management Education - Emerging Trends

Bye Bye Brick and Mortar Schools

Huge costs to build schools and classrooms are driving people to find alternate solutions. With the growing population and industrialization, institutions have to compete for land in urban areas. It is no wonder that online education and work-from-home are the norms of the day!

But sometimes there are shortcuts to success. In Gautemala, a school has been built out of  5000 old plastic bottles and litter. A really creative and cost-effective classroom it is! To read the full story, click here.

No Ragging Online?

Colleges are all set to reopen and youngsters will enter the college premises with dreams and passion. However, the ragging menace always looms large. Is ragging always a threat? Not necessarily. Ragging is an ice-breaker and brings fun and creativity in the initial days of college. And helps to network with seniors who can guide you in studies and around the college campus. Due to ragging, many people fall in love and get married later.

But sometimes the decency limits are crossed during ragging. As students come from diverse backgrounds, what is good for someone may be bad for another. So, ragging is like gambling. The Tamilnadu government has given a mailid raggingcomplaints@gmail.com to which students affected by ragging can send a message.

Online education overcomes the ragging menace. Students meet in the online chat rooms and are focused on clearing subject queries. Higher education Online learners are working professionals and have the maturity to deal with their juniors and peers. So, ragging is not a big threat in Online Education. 

Alvin Toffler's School of Tomorrow

Alvin Toffler, the author of books about change like "Future Shock" and "Revolutionary Wealth", propounds a list of attributes for the School of Tomorrow. Alvin feels that current educational methods cater to the needs of the Industrial Revolution era. The industrial method of working needs all employees to walk into the factory at the same time, work in tandem in the factory line, and mass produce goods. The same model is employed at the schools too. All children walk into the class at the same time, simultaneously take the same set of lessons, and maintain military discipline.

Alvin Toffler envisions a new model of education that caters to the current Knowledge Era of workers. Children can start schools at the age they prefer - one child may start school at age four and another at age eight.

It's (the new school) open 24 hours a day. Different kids arrive at different times. They don't all come at the same time, like an army. They don't just ring the bells at the same time. They're different kids. They have different potentials. Now, in practice, we're not going to be able to get down to the micro level with all of this, I grant you, but in fact, I would be running a twenty-four-hour school, I would have non-teachers working with teachers in that school, I would have the kids coming and going at different times that make sense for them. 

The schools of today are essentially custodial: They're taking care of kids in work hours that are essentially nine to five -- when the whole society was assumed to work. Clearly, that's changing in our society. So should the timing. We're individualizing time; we're personalizing time. We're not having everyone arrive at the same time, leave at the same time. Why should kids arrive at the same time and leave at the same time? 

The textbooks are the same for every child; every child gets the same textbook. Why should that be? Why shouldn't some kids get a textbook -- and you can do this online a lot more easily than you can in print -- why shouldn't a kid who's interested in one particular thing, whether it's painting or drama, or this or that, get a different version of the textbook than the kid sitting in the next seat, who is interested in engineering?

I think that schools have to be completely integrated into the community, to take advantage of the skills in the community. So, there ought to be business offices in the school, from various kinds of business in the community.

Alvin Tofflers School of Tomorrow:

These are the fundamentals of the futurist's vision for education in the 21st century:

• Open 24 hours a day
• Customized educational experience
• Kids arrive at different times
• Students begin their formalized schooling at different ages
• Curriculum is integrated across disciplines
• Nonteachers work with teachers
• Teachers alternate working in schools and in business world
• Local businesses have offices in the schools
• Increased number of charter schools

The management programs at myBskool match all parameters put across by Alvin Toffler. Check out the PGDM that myBskool offers along with IMT Ghaziabad. Click here.

Great Leaders Inspire Action with the Golden Circle

The communication style of leaders in business and community follows a style - Why, How, and What. They first appeal to your soul with a 'Why' and then give your brain details of 'How' and 'What'.

Read, Read, and Read

Everyday, a manager has to take important decisions. So, a manger has to read a lot to know the current economic, political, cultural, technology, and environmental scenarios. Daily, on an average, a good manager will read 50-100 pages of information. The source of information and data can be leading newspapers, magazines, blogs, journals, bestselling non-fiction books, and sometimes even fiction. If you don't have the habit of reading, you need to atleast listen to audiobooks. On the whole, reading is an activity that no manager can escape.

But with information explosion, one needs to have power reading skills. Improving your reading skills will help you to gather key points in a short time. Keeping reading in mind, the IMT Ghaziabad PGDM syllabus includes 'Reading Skills' module under Business Communication.

Jay Cross - India has to Democratize Learning Now

Informal Learning guru Jay Cross says, "India needs to train 500 million people in the next ten years. Some have proposed building thousands of new schools and colleges. Yet if the building program began in earnest tomorrow, there still wouldn’t be enough time to build the required classrooms — some six times what India has today.

What would those schools teach? The half-life of a professional skill is down to five years and is shrinking fast. It makes no sense to train people on skills that will become obsolete in short order. I’ll suggest that people need to learn meta-skills, such things as:

• learning how to learn
• critical thinking and conceptualization
• pattern recognition
• design thinking
• working with one another
• navigating complex environments
• software literacy

India has neither time nor resources to prepare teachers to transfer these skills to hundreds of millions of people. The answer? Flip Indian education. Delegate the delivery of content to electronic means, and focus teachers on coaching, leading discussions, helping people over hurdles, and relating lessons to real life. Also, teach students and workers to help teach themselves. The time is ripe for India to democratize education, to help students to think for themselves and realize their potential. " 

myBskool offers The Flipped Classroom

What is a Flipped Classroom? In a Flipped Classroom, the student learns curriculum lessons at his/her own pace using a PC, tablet, or mobile. And then comes to class for debates, discussions, and clearing doubts. 

In traditional methods of teaching inside brick-and-mortar classrooms, the student sits in the class for more than six hours. The student cannot take a break from the lecture, switch to a different topic, or replay an interesting chunk of lecture. The Flipped Classroom helps the student to overcome such learning bottlenecks.  

In a Flipped Classroom, the student is proactive in the classroom and is not a passive listener. He or she comes prepared with a set of questions and has a definite purpose while attending the classroom sessions. Networking, communication, and brainstorming happens in the classroom, leading to a lively session. 

To view the Flipped Classroom that myBskool has designed for IMT Ghaziabad, click here.

To know about the Flipped Classroom that myBskool will design for IIM Ranchi, click here.

What does Thomas Friedman feel about Online College Education?

Three times Pulitzer prize winner Thomas Friedman, and author of the book “The World is Flat,” gives a Thumbs Up to Online College Education.

“Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary. The costs of getting a college degree have been rising faster than those of health care, so the need to provide low-cost, quality higher education more acute than ever. At the same time, in a knowledge economy, getting a higher-education degree is more vital than ever,” the Pulitzer prize winner writes. 


“And thanks to the spread of high-speed wireless technology, high-speed Internet, smartphones, Facebook, the cloud and tablet computers, the world has gone from connected to hyperconnected in just seven years. Finally, a generation that has grown up on these technologies is increasingly comfortable learning and interacting with professors through online platforms.” 

Are you convinced about Online Learning? Now are you thinking of an online management program? Then visit myBskool. myBskool programs have been built for a three-screen platform — PC, tablet and smart phone. And offers 6,000 audio/ podcast and 2,500 video lectures, delivered by management professors and experts from around the country.

Look at Online Studyroom of myBskool

How does the Online Study Room of myBskool look like? When you enter the Online Study Room you can see a list of Management Subjects such as Strategic Management, Financial Accounting, Business Law, and Foundation of IT. When you select the Management topic you want to learn, a list of sub-topics are displayed.

Every sub-topic has video lectures, powerpoint presentations and assessments. The video lectures are delivered by highly qualified and experienced management professionals and lecturers. The PowerPoint presentations have accompanying audio. The assessments test the learning outcomes using multiple-choice and other question models. So, the studyroom gives an enriching learning experience.

Do you want to see a demo of the courses? Click here. Register, view, and give us a feedback about the Studyroom.

Studyroom Videos

Studyroom Powerpoint Presentations

Studyroom Assessments

IMT Ghaziabad - Centre for Distance Learning

Do you want a PGDM from a management institute that ranks Number 1 in Online Education? Then contact myBskool to enroll for a IMT Ghaziabad program.

 

myBskool - Online Management Education

Gaurav in an engineer and is eagerly awaiting promotion at work. He is a team player and a good leader and is assured of a promotion. Nevertheless, he has a nagging feeling that he is not an academically qualified  Management Professional. Some of  his juniors have a Management qualification.

"So, its high time i qualify myself," thought Gaurav. But, he is married and cannot not afford to take a break from his career. He has invested in life insurance schemes and has only limited funds for his higher education. Gaurav is also dreaming of a qualification from a reputed management school.

Can Gaurav fulfill his dream? Is there a good solution for his future growth?

Yes.myBskool is a one-stop-solution for all your management degree dreams. myBskool offers a one year PGDM from the reputed Institute of Management and Technology, Ghaziabad. Who will hesitate to get  a cost-effective degree while learning from their home PC? Are you in Gaurav's position today? If so, be quick and contact course counsellors at myBskool.

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