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Teaching for Results

Teaching is my profession and it is in a kind of crisis. Indeed, my students struggle with broken learning processes, teachers struggle with defective delivery process. Let me elaborate and provide evidence. In a semester long course though designed for continuous learning students show peak learning efforts during and around 3 IAs and final exams. On the other hand, teachers deliver each class as if students are eagerly waiting for immediate learning. This is a serious synchronization challenges for both students as well as teacher. On student's side, the teacher's delivery becomes a kind of non-stop noise or sahasra nama and for a teacher it is a kind brochure reading in front of a uninterested customer. NO teacher nor the students want any of these situations, but with current teaching/learning processes most of them are unavoidable. Now I wish to attack this challenge face on. In other words, I wish to synchronise teaching delivery with learning consumption. In this regards

About this Blog

I am Ravindra Dastikop, currently working as an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department of SDM College of Engineering  Technology, Dharwad. I have been working in this institution since 1987 and have worked in different capacities. I started my career in the computer lab which was then part of Electronics and Communication Engineering department. Since early days I have taken fascination into computers and information technology aspects. In the past I have been the first user in my department to many of IT utilities such as emails. I created my first email account on hotmail way back in 1997. Developments in Information technology have always held my attention. In the recent years I have been using tools such as online docs and presentation and custom search engine and more With the advent of web 2.0 , I have been exploring a new genre of tools unleashed the web. Blogs seems to be the one I am currently attracted most. I have been using blogs exten

Web as a business Platform

Time is ripe for conceiving and building a new category of business firm entirely on the world wide web. Historically business may be seen as a process of identifying resources and converting them into economic values. Changing nature of resources have determined the path and progress of business and kinds of organizations created to conduct business. Discovery of iron created mining enterprises and invention of steam engine created transportation industry and factories. The invention of printing machine heralded publishing industry;invention of microprocessor led to computing industry and so on The floating fund of data on the web represents the newest of business resources. One can imagine towards creating a new kind of business firm, cyberfirm to be built on these resources

A Life On Web

Today I took a momentous decision of my life. I decided to use web as the base for all my professional and personal activities. I shall become to the extent possible a web based person. Web will be the medium of all my communications; a source of all my resource requirements and place holder of all my data and lastly web will be the publishing media of all my works and thoughts. Today on the web we have all the resources and knowledge for the successful practice of web style life. By Web style life I mean making web as the central junction all our activities. In addition the instantaneous interactivity enabled by the web is a crucial factor in enhancing its utility for many of us. I have realised for quiete sometime that the success in the connected world goes to them who can " compress as many interactions as possible into a 24 hours day".

The Nature of the Open Firm

In 1937 British economist Ronald Coase introduced the idea of Transaction cost and rationalized the creation of firms for running business. The reason for creating a firm according to him was to save transactions costs- by bringing in certain economic activities within the firm thereby avoiding everyday risk of contacting market for those services or resources. Since then, every theory of business strategy and organization assumes the bringing a set of economic activities within the gamut of an enterprise a priori and they only differ in deciding which activity to bring inside and which one to be left outside (core competence, core activity, dynamic enterprise examples). With the advent of floating fund of resources- namely open-ended data streams and freely available tools- unleashed by the web- it is possible to create a value offer- by assembling those resources without taking them inside of an enterprise. I have set an enterprise at http://educationonly.googlepages.com. Its value p

The Nature of the Open Firm

Business may be defined as a process that converts outside resources into outside economic results. Firms are created to enact value creation process. They identify an outside resource, procure them and process them to add value and release it back to market to get economic rewards. Time is ripe for conceiving and building a new category of business firm entirely on the world wide web. Historically business may be seen as a process of identifying resources and converting them into economic values. Changing nature of resources have determined the nature of business and kinds of organizations created to conduct business. Discovery of iron created mining enterprises and invention of steam engine created transportation industry and factories. The floating fund of data on the web represents the newest of business resources. One can imagine towards creating a new kind of business firm, cyberfirm to be built on these resources Today the web has unleashed one of the most potent resource. It is