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snchaitra

snchaitra has written 3 posts for Elearning trends & technology

Is India ready to take learning online?

By ⋅ April 7, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Is India ready for learning online? It is from past couple of years that world is thinking and talking about using Social Networks or Social Media for Education. The evolving world of communication and technology offering tags, blogs, podcasts, file swapping – all at finger tips, is offering revolutionary ways to connect, create, learn, think [...]

The biggest challenge for the Teachers of today

By ⋅ March 19, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

One of the hardest challenges faced by the Teachers or Schools is keeping the Students engaged in the classroom. With the kids born and growing up with iPods, iPhones, iPads, IM, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, blogs, podcasts, Gaming arcades, et al, the daunting task of maintaining their interest inside the classroom is a exercise in vain [...]

Taking Education beyond four walls through Social Learning Model

By ⋅ September 23, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

In their article, “Schooling as a Knowledge Profession,” Jal D. Mehta, Louis M. Gomez, & Anthony S. Bryk, point out various flaws with the current educational system, the greatest of which being that we are still operating within a paradigm that mirrors the antiquated trends of the industrial age. Today, the biggest challenge in the [...]