How Far Has Smartphones Influenced Higher Education?

According to Nielsen, the leading US research firm, around 46% of people surveyed in Q4 2011 has been found to own a smartphone. Thus, with a majority of people having a smartphone, its influence is obviously reaching out to school and college campuses not only in USA, but across the world. Today, school and college goers are using a smartphone for a variety of purposes.

QR Codes

QR codes are square shaped images with black and white designs. They are used for several reasons such as: to create website links, store phone numbers, email ids, direction, and so on. Many universities are allowing their students to scan the QR codes using their smartphone cameras to be directed to the institute's website featuring a brief history of the campus area.

How Can You Attend a Course Anytime and From Anywhere?

From my real-life perspective, I have understood that there are millions of people who want to attend a presentation, meeting or class, but are unable to do so because of geographical constraints or time limits. They want to learn more or sharpen their business skill-sets, but do not find supportive environment to help them to fulfill their dreams. Since the last decade, the world has witnessed major technological changes. Nowadays, distance is no longer a barrier for a hands-on approach. Anyone anytime can do or learn online, defying time constraints and location boundaries.

Conducting classes or courses online has re-defined the way knowledge was traditionally imparted by our teachers. Classrooms exist even today, but the way of teaching and learning has changed. Technology is playing a tremendous role in bringing courses or training programs within easy reach disregarding the time and location barriers completely.

Use Learning Management Software for Instructor-Led Training

According to training experts, the best method of delivering knowledge to students are via Instructor-led training or ILT. The instructors can help learners to understand the minute details of any subject and provide assistance in comprehending difficult topics without hassles. However, conducting an instructor-led training session often becomes difficult due to geographical boundaries. In such circumstances, a Learning Management System can provide a reasonable solution.

A lot of corporate organizations are resorting to Learning Management Systems with ILT (instructor-led training) capabilities to conduct enterprise-oriented training sessions. With such a system, knowledge is delivered through study materials moderated by a teacher. Moreover, the teacher or the instructor can control the distribution of the study content to a number of remotely located learners simultaneously.

What Should Be the Right Approach Towards Mobile Based Learning

If you thinking about implementing mobile-based training in your organization soon, you must focus on one fundamental question: What is the best-suited approach to instigate the mobile learning strategy? This is because, without a proper approach, it is difficult to achieve any productive results.

Ideally, there are three approaches towards mobile-based training, which we are going to discuss here. Take a look and decide which one caters to your requirements the best.

Push Learning: This is one of the popular approaches, when it comes to training the sales team. In this process the learning content and information is "pushed" to the learners, and they have little choice in terms of the content they receive. 

Learning Management Systems - Showing a New Way to Learning Methodology

Resorting to a Learning Management System helps enterprises to remain a step ahead in the present scenario of fast-paced learning. It helps enterprises to execute training via Elearning, which is quick and convenient. Amongst the different Elearning modes, Instructor Led Training, Game Based Learning and Mobile Learning are the most popular ones. Thus, traditional classroom based education has taken a step back in recent years.

What is important in the corporate world is keeping in pace with changing market trends and business strategies. Thus, employees need to be trained as per the situation demands. By installing a Learning Management System, you can make the necessary information and study materials available to the employees anywhere, anytime. Therefore, training programs become more interesting and fun.

Why Should You Introduce Technology in Education?

There has being a lot of talk regarding why educational organizations should introduce technology in classrooms. This year, New York City's Department of Education plans to increase its technology expenses to $542 million for setting up internet connections and giving wireless access to all the city schools.

There is absolutely no reason to believe that the 'brick and mortar' classrooms didn't help students get the kind of education they deserved. Prior to technology, students still learnt and came through tests with flying colors. However, technology has brought in some significant benefits that even the most vocal critic can't disagree with.

I will share with you some crucial points in support of implementing technology in educational organizations. Let's figure them out.

Beyond Education - A Moment of Clarity

Just inside Yosemite National Park is a beautifully wild and scenic river. It is one of the few remaining rivers not dammed in California. For many years I had sought out the energy of running water. Recently I was beginning to suspect there might be a spiritual energy connected to how I felt. I was tapping into something for which I had no name. It enlivened my body, and I often felt an in-rushing of joy flow through me. I made pilgrimages to this river only minutes from my home. Transformation in the river's character is easy to see from season to season. In the spring it is a torrent of wild power, and as the days progress into summer the power turns to gentle tranquility. In the winter it lies quietly in dark, opaque pools. However, my own transformation was more difficult. My spiritual river ran underground.

In the presence of the power of the water, I did my school work, and journal writing, and tried to make sense of the movement in my life. 

Make Training Programs Productive With Learning Management System

Training programs are intended to offer new knowledge to learners, which can be used to deliver better results in terms of performance. However, most training programs cannot cope up with the changing trends in the Learning and Development industry. Thus, employees are unable to apply their knowledge in practicality as per demands. Today, training organizers are continuously looking for effective ways to make training programs productive and purposeful. So how can they achieve this?

Experts believe, that using an integrated Learning Management System can help in making an employee training program highly effective. How does it actually help in delivering knowledge in the best possible way? Take a look here.

Pre training scenario

How to Prepare for UPSC/IAS Exams

Civil Services Aptitude Test-

New Recruitment Process of Civil Services Exam conducted by the UPSC (Union Public Service Commission) is called the CSAT or the Civil Services Aptitude Test with effect from 2011. No changes are being introduced at this stage in the Civil Services (Main) Examination and Personality Test in the scheme of Civil Services Examination (CSE).

Scheme of Civil Services Examination

The Civil Services Examination consists of two stages -

(i) Civil Services Preliminary Examination (Objective type) for the selection of candidates for the Main Examination; and

Why Do We Need to Understand God?

Einstein in his address at Princeton Theological Seminary, May 19, 1939 commented about religion that religion lays down clear fundamental ends and valuations and sets them fast in emotional life of an individual and thus in social life of man. The only justification for these fundamental ends is that they exist in all healthy societies as powerful traditions, and it is not necessary to find justification for their existence.

Further, Einstein in a symposium - Science, Philosophy and Religion at New York 1941 stated:

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind"

"What is still lacking here is a connection of profound generality but not knowledge of order itself"