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The online world is the "new found land" of our times. Exploring this new found land and making it our next natural habitat is an exciting challenge and a discovery process. It is something similar to the venture of of the early proponents of Newfoundland settlement which offered various grandiose reasons for their schemes, but the special advantages of the island were more relevant and these were, largely, related to the fishery. However this new "online" land is much more in its offerings. Here are some observations Online world is a technology enabled resource . It is not constrained by the natural barriers of time, distances and sometimes it even overcomes the barrier of language. Online world is a general resource, however to explore and exploit its true potential one must specialise in one or the other way. Some of the general purpose tools that might be considered for specialisation are blogger , custom search engines, web site Online world resource is glob

One of students who was campus recruited by a MNC has just completed a 3-month in-company training. He told me " On the last day of our training programme we were asked to assemble at one place and we all thought that we would be receiving placement orders in one of the many of MNC's centers across India". Instead they were given 15-days paid holidays. This announcement caught most of the trainees unaware. One by one went into action mode. One of them cancelled her air ticket to home town and instead booked bus ticket. Another one downgraded his ticket from expensive Volvo bus to ordinary bus. This seemingly insignificant event highlights one of the deeply seated trends in our youth. Tendency to spend rather lavishly even before earning it completely. In general it is good to spend when you start earning. Every spending helps someone in the economy. The current economic down turn is very genuine and is hurting many. To be sure, it is hurting some of them v

The online world is the newfound land of our times. Exploring this newfound land and settling there is an exictiting challenge and a discovery process. In this blog we discover its potential, meaning. We also try to develop approaches on how to harness its potential for individual and instutional purposes.

A couple of decades ago, there was only one place to watch a movie: Film theater or talkies. You have to wait until the release of movie usually on Friday, go to the theater  buy ticket and watch the movie. Theaters had fixed and regular times for shows. About a decade or so ago, things started changing. Introduction of CD allowed people to watch movies at places and times of their convenience such as at home and in the evening- provided they can afford CD player. Some time later Cd rental opened up movie watch opportunities ti many more on weekdays- in office- in functions and in bus during travels or in hotels during stay. In other words theater gradually lost the primary position as the place for watching movies. Something similar has happened or happening to class room teaching and learning. While I was studying in school during 1970's, it was classroom where most or even all learning and teaching happened. if someone missed class for whatever reason, there was n

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

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

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

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".