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June 2009 Blog Posts (8)

Online CAT 2009 Path to Get in to Top Indian B Schools

Path to top Indian B Schools has never been easy. Every year lakhs of graduate students (B.E, B.Tech, B.Com, B.A etc) and working professionals appear for CAT chasing their dreams of making it to top Indian B schools such as IIM Ahemdabad (IIMA), IIM Bangalore (IIMB), IIM Calcutta (IIMC); NITIE, Mumbai; SP Jain, Mumbai; FMS and MDI, Gurgaon. Competition has been rising every year. In between the talks of new IIMs being opened this year another news came that CAT will be Online in… Continue

Added by Saumil Shrivastava on June 25, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

World’s first tuition-free online university opens-Article from FutureGov.net

World’s first tuition-free online university opens

By Kelly Ng | 8 June 2009

NEWS

The Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (GAID), a UN department that aims to reduce poverty by promoting the use of information and communications technology (ICT), wants to make higher education available more accessible to people who cannot afford rising tuition fees, or have problems travelling to the nearest college.

To date, US$1… Continue

Added by Shai Reshef on June 22, 2009 at 3:21am — No Comments

Chief Learning Officer- Power to the People

http://www.clomedia.com/executive-briefings/2009/June/2663/index.php

Added by Shai Reshef on June 17, 2009 at 1:27am — No Comments

The Gala Masquerade Ball awaits you!

On June 13th 1:00pm - 3:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Southern%20Colorado/163/42/26

the Passionate Redheads Team of the Second Life Relay For Life will holding the first Gala Ball Event. A Fashion Show will follow the ball at 4:00pm - 6:00pmSLT.

On June 14th 6:00pm - 9:00pmSLT at…

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Added by Durff on June 13, 2009 at 11:31am — No Comments

Teaching Digitally: The Power of PDF

The Paradigm is shifting. One word encompasses the new global paradigm which affects everything and everyone: DIGITAL.

It's about creating and keeping things in a digital format. It's about sharing information digitally. It's about reading and writing digitally. Creating music digitally. Sending invoices digitally. Keeping medical records digitally. Archiving… Continue

Added by Andrew Garcia on June 10, 2009 at 7:30am — No Comments

Higher Education in USA - Target average GMAT Score for Top USA Business Schools

This article will be useful for working professionals who are planning to pursue MBA from USA universities or USA B-schools.

Being a working professional myself, I understand that during recession many of us are planning to go for higher studies. In my circle of friends out of 10 professionals six have already applied to different b schools in USA, UK or in India and others have taken the GMAT 2009 date.

Most of us while preparing for… Continue

Added by Saumil Shrivastava on June 10, 2009 at 1:32am — No Comments

Students Seeking Relevance In Education

Ben Grey raises one of the most fundamental questions regarding our present situation:

What are we doing for students accomplishing their most amazing feats of education outside the education system?

Information has become decentralized.… Continue

Added by Andrew Garcia on June 5, 2009 at 5:47pm — No Comments

A mutant learning system

Ray Kurzweil - presented by Bill Gates as the best man in the world to predict the future of technology, since he has never failed yet - says that, due to the exponencial increase of its speed, during the XXI century, technology evolution will be equivalent to 20 thousand years.

Considering that technology affects human behaviour and how they learn, any new learning system will have to be designed to accept continuous improvement in order to keep suitable to new tech tools… Continue

Added by Miguel Sacramento on June 2, 2009 at 7:30pm — No Comments

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