Started off with a bang. Sam Pitroda struck the right notes by questioning the dominant paradigm. He pushed levers when he raised a lot of questions that we have been discussing online - teachers as mentors, need to look at different educational model, need to scale, need to question our view of universities, need to question the [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Day Two: FICCI HES 2011
Posted in Education Policy, tagged FICCIHES2011 on November 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
FICCI Higher Education Summit 2011
Posted in Education Policy, tagged FICCIHES2011, Higher Education India on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At the FICCI Higher Education Summit 2011 today. Had an interesting first day yesterday. The highlights for me were the talks by Montek Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Mr Michael Russell, Member of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, Prof. David Naylor, President, University of Toronto, Canada and Dr Daniel C Levy, [...]
The Education World is changing
Posted in 3.0, Education Policy, Innovations, tagged change, pedagogy, technology on November 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Over the past few months, I have seen the signs of what could be the next generation of teaching – learning experiences, the signs that show how traditionally accepted models and conceptions of tools are being superseded and are gaining focus and importance from education companies, vendors and users, not just innovator-entrepreneurs who have a good [...]




