Education & Training
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readHuman brain is a very peculiar thing on this planet, which functions at the speed of light and holds the capacity to work as much as 12 computers together. The most important thing to notice is that no two brains think alike or function alike. Thus it is difficult to predict and impossible to compare ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAt the context of public Education System, today, the parameter of measurement is based on the current expectation we have from the system, which is around Learning. Initially, the system was designed for schooling and not for Learning. In an exclusive interview with Mr. Singh, we came across the Educational scenario prevailing in the government schools ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAs Malcolm X has rightly put, 'Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.'The best thing about education system in India is that it prepares the foundation of a child’s education very neatly by giving equal importance to the basics of all subjects in the ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIn an exclusive interview, Dr. Purushottam talked about the relationship between Technology and Pedagogy," In most areas of research, both Technology and Pedagogy is equally important in their own ways and they tend to supplement each other in various areas for they play completely different roles in similar domains.In considering those forms of teaching and learning ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readEven for America, to transform University of Texas at San Antonio’s small but growing library of augmented reality books, consisting of 25 children’s titles shouldn’t come to you as a surprise. Augmented Reality is being looked as the most preferred way to teach students worldwide.Back in India, PM Narendra Modi’s Digital India’s initiative has taken ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readThrow some light on the gaps in teacher training.As an educator, what I have come across is, we have a teacher set hich are already trained, maybe 20 years back. There are government bodies, educationists, entrepreneurs, working in their areas. But what we need to look at is. As a leader of the school, what ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 6 min readWhistling Woods International is growing beyond the helm of a popular film making school in India and is all set to become a creative university in the country and across the globe. Well known for its quality education of film making in India, the school has designed specialization programmes in film making, animation, acting, media ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readAccording to a UNESCO report, ‘acquiring skills’ has been considered a vital component for reducing poverty, recovery of an economic and sustainable development as well. As a consequence, policy attention to technical and vocational education and training (TVET) also needs increasing worldwide focus.The UNESCO debate led to a global rethinking of TVET ‘to enhance its ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readE-learning is never meant to replace traditional learning. It can however be used to as a complementary method to provide various learning alternatives. The total Indian e-learning market is anticipated to reach USD 1.28 billion by FY’2018. Thus e-Learning plays an important role in explaining difficult subjects by breaking them down into info graphs, 3D ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 4 min readIndia is witnessing a huge shift of paradigm in Education business sector. Edupreneurs are multiplying on everyday basis, but how many of them are actually making their bug dream come true!The Budget has pegged an outlay of Rs 79,685.95 crore (US$ 11.952 billion) for the education sector for financial year 2017-18, up from Rs 72,394 ...