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Interactive Learning For Businesses
To keep paced with the rapidly changing business environment, managers and entrepreneurs need to equip themselves with the knowledge and skills that will allow them to steer their ventures in the right direction. With the hectic schedules and the unwavering demand to manage their respective business, managers and entrepreneurs find it difficult to find a convenient way of continuing their education. That is, until interactive learning came along.
With the advent of technology and growing dependence on the Internet as an infinite source of information, interactive learning has become a buzz word for entrepreneurs and middle management. According to experts, the growing sophistication of technology generates connectivity in learning, and isolates stagnant forms of education.
There are now a growing number of online schools who offer certain curriculum for managers — both upper and mid-levels — and entrepreneurs that aims to help fuel new business ideas and strategies. These interactive modules also aim to help entrepreneurs and managers broaden their knowledge and performance in order to keep pace with intensifying global competition.
The best part about interactive learning is it allows students navigate their busy schedules without compromising the quality of education. In other words, interactive learning enables students to learn at their own pace — and a time that is convenient to them.
Among the leading providers of interactive learning is WealthBridge Connect. They provide a perpetual, interactive learning environment that seeks to equip members/students with the most up-to-date business ideas and strategies by utilizing several supportive methods. These methods include rapid eLearning video content produced by today’s top business leaders, internationally-known for business success. These videos are quick and to the point, typically providing relevant content in five to eight minutes.
WealthBridge Connect uniquely supports each video segment with an outline for sustained visual learning comprehension, MP3 files for portable learning, PowerPoint files, action items, and application tools that allow members to create their customized Human Performance System plan. This particular action plan creates a definitive roadmap, like a business plan, that motivates members to capture new knowledge and put it into action.
Moreover, WealthBridge Connect provides administrative oversight by highly-competent learning coordinators that partner with you and your teams for increased accountability of assigned eLearning content in any discipline. Doing so creates accountability for performance management, and provides additional incentives that help management recognize individual knowledge and skill achievement.
With the business environment continually evolving, managers and entrepreneurs alike must learn to invest in improving their skills to meet the demands of the changing environment. They need to leverage the power of technology to their advantage to improve the skills required. As Lester Thurow, former dean of MIT Sloan School of Management and author of numerous bestsellers on economics, once said, “In the 21st century, the education and skills of the workforce will be the dominant competitive weapon.”
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- Integrated approach of teaching – Online course management-
- Superior Instruction
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- Tracking Student Performance
- Parent Portal
- BigGyan Services
- Environment Friendly
Building WebPresence
Internet has emerged an important platform for marketing. It is inevitable that coaching institutes need to build their online presence as more and more parents and students are going to internet to obtain information related to career. However, the rules of creating web presence are different from the ones that work in normal world. Internet is all about starting early and targeting right. The early you start more websites will link to your website making your website more relevant, which makes the website appear higher in search results of search engines like Google. What good is a website which does not have considerable number of visitors? Further, it is extremely important to build online presence professionally. A badly designed website may do more damage than good. BigGyan helps you create web presence professionally which is directly targeted to your target audience.
Integrated approach to teaching – Online course management
BigGyan reduces work of teachers and administrators by helping them manage various aspects of courses with cool online tools. BigGyan enables teachers to be creative and use innovative teaching methodologies, allowing them to make learning fun for students. Teachers can minimize time spent to perform admin chores for courses.
- Assignments
- Online Attendance
- Online Gradebook
- Database
- Online Quizzes
Assignments
Teachers can collect assignments from students online, review it and provide feedback including grades. The grades automatically are fed into online Gradebook of the students. Students can submit any digital content (files), including, for example, word-processed documents, spreadsheets, images, audio and video clips. Assignments do not necessarily have to consist of file uploads; teachers can ask students to type directly into online text editor available in BigGyan.
Online Attendance
The module allows teachers to mark attendance of students. The grade corresponding to attendance is included into the students Gradebook automatically. Students can also view their attendance record. The attendance records can be exported into MS Excel spreadsheet format for record purposes.
Online Gradebook
BigGyan offers a very flexible Gradebook, which can be used to fit any specific requirements. Administrators and teachers can change the ways in which grades are calculated, aggregated and displayed, as well as means to change the grades manually. Various types of reports can be generated. Further, grades can be exported to MS Excel spreadsheet, OpenDocument spreadsheet, plain text file or XML file for record purposes.
Database
Teachers can build searchable repositories. A common use of this module is for storing past exam papers, activities for students to do or print out, or collections of students’ work.
Online Quizzes
BigGyan offers a powerful tool for conducting online quizzes. Teachers can design and set quizzes consisting of a large variety of Question types (multiple choice, true-false, and short answer questions etc.). These questions are kept in the course Question bank and can be re-used within courses and between courses. Quizzes can allow multiple attempts. Each attempt is automatically marked, and the teacher can choose whether to give feedback and/or show the correct answers. BigGyan also allows you to shuffle questions within quizzes and to shuffle choices in multiple-choice questions. Even randomly generated quizzes from pools of questions.
When teacher want to prepare an offline exam, they can just pull out questions from the question bank and printout the quiz.
Superior Instruction
Multimedia content
Teachers can include multimedia content – videos, interactive animations, presentations (ppt), and images to enhance their course curriculum and make learning for their students more fun. BigGyan offers tools to use any type of content with their courses.
Online Test Series
Teachers can provide online test series to their students using BigGyan. The tests can be designed such that all students have to take online test during a specific time period. BigGyan can automatically check answers submitted for objective type questions. The grades go directly to online GradeBook. Further, automatic feedback can be provided for wrong answers.
BigGyan Search
BigGyan search engine was created using Google Search Technology. Internet is filled up with low quality content. Nobody wants low quality content especially when it is being used for education purposes. BigGyan search provides only good quality content. It also groups content into lecture notes, videos, presentations, pdfs, tests, quizzes. So you can quickly reach the content you are looking for.
Rapid Course Development
With web 2.0, lot of websites have come up where people share various types of content. Ex. YouTube, Teachertube, Metacafe, Vimeo for videos; Slideshare for presentations; Scribd, Docstoc, Issuu for documents, Odeo for audio. Teachers can search for content on these sites using BigGyan Search and easily include the relevant content in their course.
24X7 support to students
Online Course Material
The entire course curriculum (lectures given by teachers, online quizzes, assignments) is stored online. Students have 24X7 access to the content. This is especially useful during exams, as students do not have to worry about lost notes, assignments. They can feel safe that they all the content. This is part of “No Child Left Behind Policy” as envisioned by BigGyan.
More Interaction
Students have support of their teachers and peers as and when they require it. They can do group activities online, discuss assignments online, share and solve problems during exam preparation.
- Forums
- Chats
- Group activities
Special Classes
Teachers can conduct extra classes using online conference (Dimdim – Web Meetings). The extra classes conducted during exams could help notch up student’s performance.
Tracking Student Performance
BigGyan provides teachers with access to finer details regarding student’s efforts and performance. It allows teachers to monitor and analyze students’ performance from a much closer perspective. Teacher’s can provide feedback which is much more relevant and beneficial to the students.
Parent Portal
BigGyan offers tools to get the parents more involved in their child’s education experience. Parents can monitor their child’s progress through the BigGyan Parents’ Portal.
The Parent Portal gives parents and guardians access to selected content from their children’s school BigGyan. Parents will be able to browse sections that the school wishes to share with its parents. Content could include upcoming events, discussion boards, and personal material related solely to their child. Parents can also communication with teachers using forums, chats and emails included in BigGyan.
BigGyan Services
BigGyan provides professional services to help you implement eLearning at your institute. Our trained professional staff is equipped to support all our client’s requirements. Institutes may not employ additional IT staff for activities surrounding BigGyan eLearning.
BigGyan provides following services:
- Fully Maintained Installation
- Fail-safe Data Backup
- Resolve Issues
- Data Entry Services
- Training Services
- Content Authoring
- Instruction Designing
- Course creation – SCORM compliant, IMS
Environment Friendly
Helps cut down Treeware
Treeware refers to all content printed or written on papers. BigGyan helps administrators, teachers and students to cut their treeware significantly. This is not only environment friendly but also saves costs and is more convenient as teachers and students are not required to carry content of paper wherever they need. No need to maintain content on paper. No chances of losing the content.
Save fuel
BigGyan provides tool to Institutes to cut down fuel costs of teachers, parents and students. Using online conference tool Dimdim integrated with BigGyan institutes can hold Parent-teacher Meetings online. Even for extra classes students are not required to attend classes physically. Dimdim provides online whiteboard, desktop sharing, chatting features to facilitate online conference.
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Birth of Distance Learning in India – BigGyan Cloud eLearning
But was that the only way of imparting education before British. Most of us will respond with a Yes. But I think we all are forgetting the characters of “Eklavya and Dronacharya” and their story. Infact, the story contains germ of the distance learning. That was the first time that the so called “Indian education system” was “Shaken”. How many realized it? Perhaps no one. Eklavya was refused education by Guru Dronacharya. Still he managed to learn without direct contact with guru. He acquired skills and knowledge of the level of Arjuna (the best student of Dronacharya) by observing Dronacharya giving training to his students from a distance. He was the first person to have got an education without direct contact with Guru. In other words, he was first student taught via distance learning (at least in the mythology). Much has changed since then but that was a first knock on the door of Traditional Education System. It has got revolutionized since that time. But it gave an idea that content was the center of education and not the teacher. Teachers presence enhances the effect of content but to put it crudely – content is king.
Since then, the question has always been – how much distance. Now with eLearning, the distance has been made immaterial.
Start today to enhance your courses with our eLearning solution – BigGyan.
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