FOS-Fresh Online Services: by Balaji Viswanathan Podcast: 16 Language: English
In this edition,Balaji Viswanathan, founder of the educational video aggregation service, NalandaU, speaks about the features of his service.
About Balaji BE in Computer Science, MS from University of Maryland, worked 3.5 years at Microsoft as developer in Windows, Live Labs and Windows Phone.
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Hello Everybody. This is Balaji Viswanathan founder of NalandaU.com –a free online virtual university and today I’m going to take you guys through the site and explain how you can benefit from it. To put it simply, NalandaU is a site where you can find top class lecture videos on any major topic and use the videos to learn any subject for free. The lectures are provided by top universities including Massachussets Institute Technology, Harvard, Stanford, Yale and Indian Institutes of Technology, and motivated independent teachers who are experts in their topic. The videos give you a feel of a classroom and professors walk you through the courses in the same way they do when you sit in a real classroom. The lectures are a courtesy of the Open education movement started 10 years ago that includes many of the biggest universities in the world. While watching the lectures you can also take notes in the page and view the notes from all courses from a single location, by clicking my notes at the top. In many courses there are text material from Wikipedia, text links to relevant sources and online tests that will complement the lecture videos and help in further increasing the knowledge. The link my grades at the top help you manage your grades from the tests. At some point in the future we want to hook this up to online certification programs to help you gain credit for scoring high marks on them.
Lectures and the associated materials are grouped into courses like say History of India, which are then grouped into subjects like History, Chemical Engineering etc. and these subjects are grouped into departments such as Engineering, Sciences, Medicine etc. Currently we have about 7000 lectures grouped into about 330 courses in 60 subjects in 10departments, compassing almost all topics covered in a typical major university. The topics range from physics to guitar to web development to business strategy and would interest a student from Engineering, Sciences, fine arts, humanities, linguistics, management and law – in short almost everybody. The search has feature to suggest you courses as you type and the course results are grouped by subjects. Courses also have related courses that are typically suggestions for students to take next topics. Throughout the site we have taken care to provide enough information but without intimidation and distraction. All courses are manually constructed after pruning out irrelevant information.
I went to some really small schools without proper furniture and books in rural India, and I have seen so many hungry for education but having no real means to get it. I hope to take Harvard and Stanford to those dreamy eyes and hungry minds. This is a dream project for me and I hope you guys like it.
Open-Source: How to get involved? (by Anthony Bryan and Daniel Stenberg)
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Language: English
In this podcast, Daniel Stenberg, author of cURL talks to Anthony Bryan about how to get involved with an open source project. Listen to this inspiring conversation!
From being just a classroom based endeavour, corporate training has evolved quite a bit- especially with the availability of web 2.0 tools such as wiki, blogs, twitter etc. In this edition of knowledge capsule, Ms. Mohana Radhakrishnan, Founder & Vice-President, Client Services, Expertus-A Learning Outsourcing Organization, speaks lucidly about the evolution of training.
AIEEE’s new on-line counseling procedure:by Prof. Y. V. Rao
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Language: English (Recorded via Skype)
In this podcast, Prof. Y. V. Rao, Chairman, Central Counseling Board (CCB) & Director, National Institute of Technology, (NIT) WARANGAL, explains to J.Murali the features of AIEEE’s new on-line counseling procedure.
We begin a new series on web 2.0 tools. This series explores the application of web 2.0 tools in workplace. The series will be handled by Vaishnavi Shankar, Instructional Writer, Kern Communications Pvt. Ltd.
Kern Communications Pvt Ltd. is a usability consulting and learning solutions company. Established in 2004 by three entrepreneurs as a boutique design firm, Kern is a young and dynamic company. Kern is located in Secunderabad, India and has a staff of 20 professionals across 3 locations in India with expertise in user research, instructional design, and learning theories.
In this episode Vaishnavi discusses the application of social networks in workplace learning.Happy listening!
Manging Sustainable Economic Growth: by Prof. Balram Avittathur Podcast:1 Language: English
In this edition of KnowledgeCapsule, we present a talk on ‘Managing sustainable economic growth”, by Prof. Balram, IIM, Calcutta.
Prof. Balram Avittathur is a Professor in the Operations Management Group of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and is a faculty member of the institute since 1999. He has a doctorate degree in Management from Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (Fellow, IIMB). Earlier, he graduated in Mechanical Engineering from NIT Rourkela. His doctoral thesis was in the area of Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Management and Service Operations Management are his areas of research and teaching interests.
FOS-Fresh Online Services: by Jay Pullur Podcast: 15 Language: English
In this segment of KnowledgeCapsule, we present Jay Pullur of Social Twist, a web widget producing company. Here, Jay speaks about his compmany and its product, Tell-a-friend widget.
Jay Pullur founded Pramati Technologies after a long stint of 10 years in the IT services industry. The company focusses on web technologies with products and services and has recently launched SocialTwist a widget platform. Jay holds a masters degree in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.
FOS-Fresh Online Services: by Shawn Wilsher Podcast: 14 Language: English
In this podcast, Shawn Wilsher, who works on Firefox for Mozilla, speaks with Anthony Bryan about his involvement in the Firefox project, describes how to get
involved in open source projects and working on technology that affect millions of people!
Balaji Viswanathan, founder of the educational video aggregation service, NalandaU, speaks about the features of his service.
