I stumbled upon a very interesting article/write-up that explores how effective we would be using mobiles to learn.
I love the info-graphic used to explain the entire thing...
Original source : http://goo.gl/E9MFB
Getting into an Indian Institute of Technology is a dream for millions of students in India. Thousands actually make the grade.
In an interesting development, the central body for conducting the entrance test has decided that they will put up all the answer scripts AND the key. This will let an aspirant get a clear picture of what went right/wrong.
Found this transparency quite brilliant... Read the original article from:
http://goo.gl/GKH6S
Wonder how many other such institutions do this...
Working from home has become an almost defacto reality for a large portion of technology workers in the West and now in other countries like India as well...
I was reading an interesting article with tips on how workers who work from home can be trained. A very interesting perspective...
Here's the link:
http://goo.gl/QV3IL
China has recently announced that they are going to increase spending on education to 4% of their GDP. This is significant in context of the Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's saying "the way boost education development is to have schools run by educationalists. He also "defined "educationalists" to be those who love to teach and know how to teach, and those who have been teachers for their entire lives."
Now compare this with the US education system. With the administration 'making' school compete for survival, the school system is responding with rather dubious methods of making the grade (just to prevent losing their jobs when their school is shutdown). Ironically this is in the backdrop of the "No Child Left Behind" policy of the US administration.
Reading the article 'When test scores seem too good to believe' in USAtoday, how this pressure is making teachers (!)... Not students... adopt unfair means to spike up performance. This also makes me wonder about the system itself. How, what, and how much does an average student learn in a typical school lifetime?
In contrast, Ira David Socol has an interesting perspective where Finland seems to have a better model and track record that both USA and China. The interesting factoid is also how Ireland has been suggested to follow Finland model for financial recovery. What would be even more interesting is to compare how Ireland's education system fares in comparison.
