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The new world of Learning - panel discussion series
You mentioned about the personalized learning workbench.
1. How will it facilitate participative and collaborative learning?
2. There are so many collaboration features like Wikipedia and a whole bunch of other things in the external world, how do you make sure that you bring at least some elements of it within the organization?
Srikantan Moorthy (Tan)
Let me take the second question first, because that partly answers the first question because the workbench then becomes the portal from where you can assimilate some of this. So now the issue with bringing in content from outside is clearly some of those IP-related issues. However, you can still go to content that in some sense that is trusted and allowed. For example, content from a partner, a technology partner (we are working with some partners to see if we can get some of those content.) But you need a place where you can put it; so that’s where the workbench becomes an avenue for that.
The first question was about workbench and how will it make learning effective, more collaborative and participative. So, now while the workbench becomes the launch pad for your interaction for learning, at the backend is still the technology which leverages a Web 2.0 kind of a scenario, where you say that I want to go and have a chat with somebody on this particular problem, which is where you engage with somebody.
The other is you create a virtual classroom of people who are learning the same things, who sign up and say that we all want to learn the same topic, can we come together? And now you become a virtual classroom irrespective of where you are, as long as you have times at which you are all learning at the same time. You can get together and create the virtual classroom, and that is how it becomes participative.
Infosys’ Learning Services recently conducted a panel discussion on the topic “ The new world of Learning “. We are running a series of questions that the audience posed. The panelists were - Srikantan Moorthy, Vice President and Head - Education and Research; Dr. Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Principal Researcher- SETLabs and Kaiser Masood, Principal Consultant, Infosys Leadership Institute.
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Comments
Hi,
I was very curious to know about Infosys' offering in the space of virtual immersive learning.
Collaboration learning in immersive learning environment has proved to be very successful and helped organizations in reducing elearning drop out rates.
What is your thought on the same?
Posted by: Shailesh Joshi | February 2, 2009 04:42 PM