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Education Domain – What does it mean

  By Admin | December 9, 2012 - 8:39 pm | ,
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Many technology companies and start-ups want to join the fast growing  education industry.  Every day new technology start-ups are launching claiming to be part of education domain. What does it mean to be part of education domain, who are the key players, what are they building, developing or providing.  As a part of my study of education domain I will be writing several posts on this topic. I hope you find it useful. I am primarily covering technology companies building IT products or providing services in this field, I am not planning to cover

Categories in Education Domain

Companies that are working in this domains can be broadly categorized as

School management software solutions

These are companies that are primarily building or have built software that allows management of an educational institute. Typically these products would have modules like Admissions, Fee collection, Students management, Time table, Assessment and Results etc. There are just too many options out there in this field. I have listed a some thet were top in a simple Google search and the sites looked credible.

  • Pahal ( accreteindia.com )
  • nextERP ( nexteducation.in )
  • SchoolPad ( This is a cloud based school management software.)
  • Eduswift (eduswift.com)
  • Easygurukul ( Another cloud based school management system)
  • Honeycomb ( schoolautomationsystem.in )
  • School ErP ( Jupsoft)

Educational content providers ( eLrarning media and content solutions)

There are many companies that have specialized in building eLearning media and solutions. Most of these companies  develop content for K12 and higher education. Some of the companies in this field are

  • Hurix Systems – Apart from providing  digital content to different publishing companies they seem to have diversified into cloud space with two different offerings i.e. Kitaboo and Dictera. Kitaboo is an eBook publishing platform  and allows publishing eBooks in several formats. Dictera is a content collaboration and publishing platform.
  • iDiscoveri – Created lesson plans for K12 education. Marketing the product as XSEED.
  • Everonn – They claim to be the largest VSAT education network in the world.  Focused on skills based training they seem to have  diversified into building schools etc now.
  • Mexus Education – They have created lot of eLearning media which seems to have been deployed in schools. They have diversified into assessments similar to Olymoiads . They market using the brand name iKen.
  • Tata Interactive Systems – Tata Interactive Systems apart from other domains has good presence in Education sector. They have products / content for K-12 as well as for higher education.

Massive open online course

Latest but a massively huge entrant in the  education sector is MOOC i.e. massive open online course. Similar to open source this can be a game changer in education sector. MOOCs are courses open to everyone for free. Most of the MOOC courses are designed and delivered by University professors. Only difference between a MOOC and a university course that you don’t get any credit awarded for these course. Some of the most popular of these online courses are

udacity.com

coursera.com

edx.org

khanacademy.org

The internet is my religion

  By Admin | March 22, 2012 - 11:52 am |
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In it, Jim Gilliam gives us a short tour of his life’s story. I encourage you to watch the entire mind-blowing twelve minutes. In it, Jim tells the story of how after contracting life-threatening cancer, he went from following a popular movement—Jerry Falwell-branded fundamentalist Christianity—to creating two of his own. First, following the tragedy of September 11, 2001, Jim became an activist for a better America and produced a series of compelling documentary films to further his cause. In order to promote these films, Jim developed a series of techniques using the Internet to basically create a movement—i.e. to organize a group of people to do something. In this case, learn from his films and strive to improve the country. Later, we find that the cancer treatment that Jim received earlier in the story burned out his lungs requiring that he receive a double lung transplant or die. Finding a donor for two healthy lungs and a doctor willing to perform the insanely risky surgery is the mother of all long shots, so Jim had to start a new movement to get new lungs. Organizing people to save his own life profoundly impacted Jim’s view of how he should spend the rest of it. So much so that his personal domain is called 3dna.us to represent the 3 different DNAs that combine to keep him alive, a constant reminder that he cannot do it alone.

via How to Start a Movement // ben’s blog.

How Successful People Think

  By Admin | January 2, 2012 - 6:17 pm | ,
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1. Focus ithe biggest challenge. Figure out where you need to focus your energy. Devote maximum time to most important activity, even though it might be boring.
2. Don’t be surrounded by people who always say what you want to listen. Listen to the colleague you dislike most or someone who opposes you. Once you have gone through all the opposition you will be more confident about your decision.
3. Having great ideas is not enough. It is just the beginning. Follow through and ensure that Ideas are executed as well.
4. Let ideas, thoughts develop in your mind before you try to get everyone excited about it. Shape your ideas, thoughts and think about clear messaging before you communicate the same.
5. Leaders hire people who are smarter in areas where they are weak. They don’t feel threatened by people who are smarter than them.
6. Plan ahead, think strategically and long term but leave room for spontaneity.
7. Be prepared to change the way you think.

Merging Minds

  By Admin | January 2, 2012 - 12:39 pm | ,
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Mind Merge is about Ideas, Innovation, Technology. Anything but News.. There are too many news sites out there that cover start-ups, News etc. Even serious Technology sites are have 90% content about funding, gossip, start-up launch party and what not.   At Mind merge we want to cover pure technology, innovation, ideas.

We will talk about project  management, Tools to improve your productivity. Tools to improve productivity of your team. Sites.. We will try to be of real help rather than another time waster site.  Hope you like this initiative. We look forward to your support.