Browsing by Author "Vaidyanathan, Rama"

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    Entrepreneurship Education Though a Blended Teaching Approach
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2017-08) Vaidyanathan, Rama; Sharmil, Hepsibah
    Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) is designed for large numbers of participants that can be accessed by anyone without entry restrictions through an internet connection, and offer a free complete course experience. These open education courses are a mid-ground between traditional structured class-room teaching and the freely available but fragmented information in the world wide web (Aydin 2017). In a traditional classroom, the educator has a specific course with clearly articulated goals and outcomes. With the push towards digitization of education, increasing competition between Universities, accreditation requirements, there is clearly a movement in Indian Education towards a learner-centric and outcome based education. Educationists are now adopting digital content in their lecture delivery, using methods other than a written examination, such as seminars, assignments, and group projects to assess the outcome. According to a report prepared by Stanford Class Central, it was estimated that more than 500 Universities offer 4200 courses to 35 million learners globally (Shah 2016). Coursera, a for-profit provider, offers more courses than many others. From India, Indian School of Business, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore offer courses through International MOOCs. Swayam is an initiative by the government of India to offer an online education module. Students who take up the course can get credited transferred to their Certificates. These efforts taken by the Government will ensure that the quality of education improve better opportunities for faculty and teachers.
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    The Perceived Ease in Adoption of Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD)
    (INFLIBNET Centre, 2016-10) Francis, Hepsibah; Vaidyanathan, Rama; Thirunavukkarasu, A.
    Thesis and dissertations are a unique and rich source of information and it is often the only classic research that always do not channel into publications. They are often an underutilized research asset leading to unnecessary repetition and duplication. Misuse and plagiarism of research work can be identified by maintaining robust ETD. On the perspective of academic pathway, registry and research assortment there are scores of issues, however using ETD to the best is an important strategy to empower knowledge. This article accentuates the usage pattern of ETD and its prospects. A survey was conducted to identify the ease in the adoption of ETD. The felt benefits and opportunities for improvements were identified. It was evident that many researchers have access to ETD. However, the prominent use of ETD was by the PhD research fellows to upload thesis and information search was done at a later stage. Increased efficiency was noted in uploading electronic thesis into the ETD system and it was cost saving. On the flip side to locate the thesis upload site was an intricate process. Information on service strategy that enabled expansion of electronic thesis was reconciled. There was a prominent need for detailed governing procedure to process the electronic thesis submission. To fully utilize the potential of ETD sufficient infra-structure and IT training must be provided for researchers, towards implementing an automated process. Clearly there is a need for administrative procedure to recognise an easy to use procedural pathway. Materialization of mandatory electronic thesis submission will gain useful insight on matters of electronic thesis development.