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Recession-Proof Your Career With E-Learning
The biggest and scariest part about a recession is the possibility of losing your job and not being able to sufficiently support yourself or your family. While nothing can really be done if your company goes under, you can still successfully recession-proof your shop so that the chances of you being one of those laid-off employees diminishes. By improving your skills, you can stay marketable in a competitive time where everybody is fighting to keep their jobs. A company is only going to want to keep their very best employees, who they know will be the best fit for the company and work hard to help keep the company afloat. Managers are going to keep the most qualified workers and get rid of those who are mediocre or are just barely meeting the job requirements.
Do not be one of those unlucky few while your company “trims the fat,” and make sure your skills are up to date so that you are the most qualified employee to keep around during this harsh economic times we are facing. The best way to enhance your skills is by taking some online computer training courses. Online courses are great since they allow you the convenience of still working a full-time job while enhancing your knowledge and skills on the side. You get to learn more without having to miss work, fit in traditional schooling that requires you to take classes at an offsite location or having to rearrange your other priorities in life to follow someone else’s schedule.
As jobs become more and more scarce as hundreds of people compete for one opening at a company and those who are lucky to still have jobs fight to keep them, you must ask yourself, “What should I do immediately to protect myself and my loved ones from a national or perhaps global economic recession?”
Well, the answer is simple: become a highly skilled worker NOW. In a recession, the unskilled or mediocre worked is obviously more at risk than those who are skilled and have advanced knowledge of a computer program, have a certification or have some training that backs up their knowledge, skills and expertise.
While it may have been a good idea to get some extra training before the recession hit, you can still increase your chances of still having a job while everybody else around you gets laid off while in the middle of one. The best way to do it is to take some form of elearning course to help improve your knowledge and skills on a certain area. There are tons of elearning courses out there for every profession.
IT professionals can become certified professionals with simple certification online courses so that they can learn the needed skills and knowledge to enhance their career to stay marketable in a very competitive industry. Those with full-time jobs can easily fit some elearning courses into their schedule since the courses are done entirely on your own time from the desktop of your computer. The only requirements for this type of learning are that you have a computer with Internet connection and some extra time to spare.
Since all learning is done by logging into your online account, you can learn any time of the day or week you please since the Internet is always on 24/7. The course is also great since everything you need to successfully learn the topic is included with it so you never have to go out and spend more money buying additional learning materials.
Even if you are not in the IT field, there are still many e-learning courses out there that helps you learn more about commonly used computer programs, such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and more, as well as popular Adobe products like InDesign, Flash, Photoshop and Illustrator, just to name a few. By learning all you can about these products that you use most at work, you better your chances of keeping you job if layoffs do happen at your company. Managers are more willing to keep those who are highly qualified and are more productive than those who just know the basics of the programs and are barely meeting the expectations and requirements of their position.
Another great benefit of taking e-learning classes is that you can take many at a time or concentrate on one class. If you are truly serious about enhancing your skills as much as possible, you can always buy bundle packs for online learning that allows you to take as many classes as you want for one low price. You can also do online subscriptions that allow you to take as many courses as you want in a year’s time.
E-learning is the best way to recession-proof your career since it allows you to learn on your own time while still being able to work full time or spend time with your family. It will also allow you to showcase your skills while at work so that you can impress your boss and other managers while still learning more and more about the certain topic.
Even if you do get laid off, taking online computer training courses will enhance your resume so that hiring managers will give you that second interview. In times of a recession, hiring managers are swamped with many applicants, so it is important to make yours stand out from the hundreds of other applicants and showcasing your knowledge, skills and certification that you received after taking some elearning courses will definitely benefit you and better your chances of landing the job.
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Surviving Competition Through Online Training Programs
Today each one of us has to survive the tough competition to excel in our respective fields. We need to constantly and regularly update ourselves so that we don’t lag behind others in terms of skills. But the main problem faced in such situations is the lack of time. Employed people are eager to enhance their skills by attending courses but they do not get the time to attend the regular classes. It was during this time that a need was felt for online courses and online training. Slowly different modules and courses were developed covering almost all aspects of education, be it the technical knowledge or soft skills. Today online computer training has become widely popular among the working professionals, who are either updating their skills or trying to learn new technologies. There are many ways in which these online training can be imparted such as videos, pictures, slide shows and e-learning modules which are developed by skilled professionals who have specialized training in developing these online training materials.
There are many advantages of the online training which accounts for their huge popularity. One of the most crucial advantage is the convenience of these online training. The student does not have to spend some extra hours or reschedule his regular work to do these courses. The training can be received while continuing with the present job and schedule as everything is online. The student can choose any time as per convenience, such as early mornings or late nights. Stay at home moms also benefit from these online training as they get to learn something and prepare their career during their break, i.e in the growing stage of the kid. Women usually prefer to complete the house hold chores and then attend the training online. This relieves them the time pressure which they would have to face if they had to attend classes and training somewhere else.
Elearning and online computer classes are one the most popular forms of online training. Elearning has gained much popularity in the recent times and is considered to be one of the best ways to learn online. In such a module the candidate is supplied or can access online study material. Everything is explained in a step by step manner and the course is broken down in simple language and instructional module so that it is easy to understand for the student. E-learning is simple and easy where the study can study at his own pace with no compulsion of completion of the course within time. Those who desire to learn computer online can enroll for the online computer training programs which helps to increase your computer knowledge and skills in very little time. In such online training modules the students are provided online computer training videos for better understanding. These online computer training videos are available for e-learning modules also, as it is believed that videos help to understand the modules in a faster and better way. It may happen that the student is bored reading instructions and in such situations these online computer videos provide much relief.
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BigGyan Cloud eLearning for Coaching Institutes
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- Build WebPresence
- Integrated approach of teaching – Online course management-
- Superior Instruction
- 24X7 support to students
- 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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