Monday, August 31, 2009

Study Material and Open Courseware (OCW) for Business, Engineering, Law, Arts and Science

Study Material and Open Courseware (OCW) for Business, Engineering, Law, Arts and Science

What are OCW:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare

ROCW:
http://www.rocw.raifoundation.org/course-management.htm

http://www.rocw.raifoundation.org/course-mgt-mba-notes.htm

Example: Gemba Kaizen:
http://www.rocw.raifoundation.org/management/mba/totalqualitymanagement/lecture-notes/lecture-10.pdf

It is from Rai foundation, thanks to them, where I am working now. They have developed, good case studies, theory, practical, etc.

Some other sample websites:

Education material, open content on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_materials
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_content

MIT Open Courseware:
http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
Topic wise:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/
Harvard MIT: USA:
http://www.extension.harvard.edu/open-learning-initiative

From Group of edX Universities:
https://www.edx.org/ (non profit)

Stanford:USA:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/courses.aspx
Why SEE by Stanford?:
http://see.stanford.edu/see/SEERelease.pdf
NTU:
http://compass.ntu.edu.sg/resources/Pages/OpenCourses.aspx
IIT: India:
https://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nptelhrd&view=playlists
NPTEL: India:
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/index.php
Berekeley:
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/
Yale:
http://oyc.yale.edu/
http://oyc.yale.edu/courses
MERLOT:
http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm
Example: Introduction to Marketing:
http://www.atkinson.yorku.ca/~lripley/imUintro.htm#x
UOC, Irvine: USA
http://ocw.uci.edu/Welcome.aspx
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/index.aspx
Ex. Fundamentals of Business Analysis:
http://ocw.uci.edu/courses/Fundamentals-of-Business-Analysis.aspx
Tuft:USA:
http://ocw.tufts.edu/
http://ocw.tufts.edu/CourseList
Utah State: USA
http://ocw.usu.edu/
Japanese OCW consortium:
http://www.jocw.jp/index.htm
University of Southern Queensland:
http://ocw.usq.edu.au/
Notre Dam: France:
http://ocw.nd.edu/
Delft: Netherlands:
http://ocw.tudelft.nl/
Michigan: USA:
http://open.umich.edu/education/
Uni Camp: Brazil:
http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/
UDEM: Mexico:
http://www.udem.edu.mx/home
http://ocw.udem.edu.mx/
Kyoto, Japan:
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en
METU: Middle East:
http://ocw.metu.edu.tr/
Pakistan: Virtual University: OCW:
http://ocw.vu.edu.pk/
UTM: Malaysia:
http://ocw.utm.my/
Catalunya:
http://ocw.uoc.edu/

OCW Consortium:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/courses


Learn Almost Anything for FREE:
http://www.khanacademy.org/

United Nations University, Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_University
Free Videos: on UNU:
http://videoportal.unu.edu/#allVideos

Open Directory:
http://www.dmoz.org/

Free Text Books:
Wiki Books:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Poland:
http://wolnepodreczniki.pl/

Other live and non-profit sourses: URL:
http://studentscircle.net/live/


 

Free Courses:

Free Documentaries:

Free Audio books:

Free MBA Podcasts:

Free Language Lessons:

Free Music:

Free 250 courses:
Including Literature, Biology, Physics, Engineering, Law, Management, etc.

Lifelong learning tools:

Most popular free courses:

Free All Language Lessons:

Free Course ware/ Books/ Seminar/ Study Materials:
http://www.openculture.com/2006/10/free_university-2.html

Open Access Methodologies and Sources on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Open_methodologies

Open Text:
http://www.saylor.org/otc/

Free To Learn Guide:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/6/67/FreetoLearnGuide.pdf

How to bring down cost of education with Open Education Resources (OER), Revise, Reuse, Redistribute and by Remixing?
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2012/02/07/11167/dramatically-bringing-down-the-cost-of-education-with-oer/

Allowing open access but not allowing students plagiarise or cut-copy-paste:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19661899

coming more.

Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude,
ashish.urkude@gmail.com

Space Hotel slide show

Space Hotel slide show
http://in.news.yahoo.com/photos/slideshow/hotel-in-outer-space.html

Swine Flu H1N1 pandemic Alert in India website with details

Swine Flu H1N1 pandemic Alert in India website with details:
http://swinefluindia.com/

USA Introduces nasal spray vaccine for A/H1N1: Xinhua daily of China:

Saturday, August 15, 2009

New Generation is spirited lot, it just requires direction, training and live demonstration of real success in life

New Generation is spirited lot, it just requires direction, training and live demonstration of real success in life

Some observations:

1. Definitely, it should not be exposed to too much reel life however, they also cannot be stopped from dreaming. They must recognise real life hero in their everyday life, like their parents, and not some distant person to whom they hardly know. It's a balancing act, but it has to be done otherwise exposure to too much violence, TV, and Media could dampen their mind.

2. Books, nature, real life work, real life achievements, step by step success, failure is not lasting and success is not final, etc. they require exposure to all these parts of life.

3. Too much glory of past generation and present generation don't have skills, knowledge, etiquettes, mannerism, etc. these kinds of words would destract this generation. Already they have lost interest in politics. Next area in which they lose interest, at present we don't know. Hence, be careful.

4. Transperency and just decisions, is what this generation believes.

5. They do not think ...

coming more.

Mother, Grandmother, Housewife are dedicated and devoted jobs

Mother, Grandmother, Housewife are dedicated and devoted jobs

Once if they realise that what they are doing for whom I don't think they have to do more in life just do the job and attain realisation.

Similarly, Father, Grandfather, Brother are also dedicated and devoted job just they also have to realise, that's all.


coming more.

Saturday, August 08, 2009

What is the definition of the Super Power? We need to modify or Redefine it in new era

What is the definition of the Super Power? We need to modify or Redefine it in new era

There is an article that India cannot become superpower: Hence this Question:
http://news.rediff.com/interview/2009/jul/29/inter-india-cannot-become-a-superpower.htm

There are articles for supporting India as but natural Super Power:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/20/world/asia/20iht-india.html?_r=1

http://specials.msn.co.in/sp09/independenceday2009/

Just check what Wikipedia says about Superpower:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superpower

Now it is time for all the youths in the WORLD to redefine definition World's Super Power.

Some hints could be:
Super power of PEACE,
Super power for SCIENCE and Technology
SUPER POWER of KNOWLEDGE ,
Super Power of Agriculture Produce,
Super Power of Culture and Heritage,
Super Power of Human Resource Development,
Spiritual Super Power,
Super Power of Sports,
Super Power of Travel and Tourism,
Super Power of Innovation, Research and Development,
etc.

Dr. Ashish Manohar Urkude,
ashish.urkude@gmail.com