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General Counselling for Anna University Admission to begin on July 9

General counselling for admission to engineering colleges in the State through the single window system will begin on July 9. Nearly 86,000 applications were sold on day one just 2,770 lesser than the 88,770 applications sold on the first day in 2011 of the sale of forms for admissions to 1.6 lakh seats in about 525 colleges [...]

Tamilnadu Plus Two (+2) results 2012

Tamilnadu HSC Plus Two Examination was conducted by Tamilnadu Exam Board in March/April 2012. HSC Exams are the eligible for various Professional courses such as Engineering and Medical. Tamilnadu HSC Plus Two (+2)  results for the year 2012 will be released soon after declared by the Tamilnadu Government in their website site. Students can check their [...]

The biggest challenge for the Teachers of today

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 [...]

eLearning in the age of iPad

Learning in the age of Tablets   Most of the new technologies have a way of altering the approaches to learning, and of influencing it in some way or the other.  While I was waiting for meeting at a college in India, I met with a sales force from a vendor trying to sell tablets [...]

Top Universities increasing their share of open courses

Top schools of the world open their doors to the world through open courses. With MIT, Michigan, Harvard and Stanford being pioneers. Yale is also increasing its share of open courses. Yale recently announced that it would introduce 10 new courses as open courses. “Ten compelling new Yale College courses, which range from financial theory [...]

Team exercise a way to educate decision making in teams

In our working on Innovation and leadership, we had an exercise to build a paper bridge. Students at CIMAT came up with innovative design to build bridge capable of supporting bottles filled with water. Here are some pictures of it… Team is fun collaborative learning exercise. Improve communication, emotional intelligences and team work of the [...]

Amazon or Facebook model

Amazon or Facebook model – Which is better suited for social elearning? E-learning has mostly stuck with the formal learning. E learning systems are still being built with structure/concept that started in 1990’s. The learning management systems are built around the concept of managing content many course work and assignments with privacy, security and reliability. [...]

BrainNook – Educational games for kids

New online game that helps kids learn Math and English the fun way BrainNook’s cool educational games are based on fundamental concepts in Math and English Grammar. The games cover concepts ranging from single-digit addition to 3D spatial visualization. “The interactive, fast-paced nature of the games helps children develop many critical skills, such as reading, [...]

Molecular simulations

While trying to get some rich content sites, we stumbled upon The Molecular Workbench, Visual, Interactive simulations for Teaching & learning science     “The Molecular Workbench provides visual, interactive computational experiments for teaching and learning science.”               The Molecular Workbench provides a platform for educators to create and [...]

Use of media in classrooms

New media has been an incredible boon to education. Use of ICT in classroom have changed the way of learning. With laptops becoming household items the use of media in education is ever more increasing. There are tons of educational websites offering free quality educational content and educational games to motivate young minds. A game that [...]