Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is planning to conduct a one-day Faculty Development Programme on Blended Learning using Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs at Delhi in October 2016. The programme is targeted at all faculty in management schools in India. IIMB faculty will guide participants on using IIMB’s online courses to enrich classroom learning.
The Faculty Development Programme is tentatively scheduled to be held at the IIT Delhi Campus on Saturday, 15 th October. It will include orientation sessions on MOOCs as well as parallel tracks on using MOOCs produced by IIM Bangalore in a blended format. The MOOCs in focus in these sessions are:
1. International Business Environment & Global Strategy – Dr. Sushil Vachani
2. Strategy and the Sustainable Enterprise – Dr. PD Jose
3. Statistics for Business – Dr. Shankar Venkatagiri
IIMB faculty who have pioneered MOOCs will interact with participants and conduct the various sessions. The primary objective of this workshop is to equip faculty from management institutions with requisite skills and resources to use MOOCs in a blended format in their classroom.
Registrations Open: 7 th September 2016; Registration Close Date: 30 th September 2016.
Registration Fee: Rs. 500/- only
Faculty who are interested in attending this programme are requested to register at
Link: http://www.iimb.ernet.in/node/14730 or e-mail: digital.learning@iimb.ernet.in or call: +91 – 80 – 2699 3578.
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (also known as IIMB) is a public business school located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and IIM Ahmedabad.[3] It is consistently ranked as one of the best business schools in India and the Asia Pacific region.
It offers Post Graduate, Doctoral and executive training programmes. The Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGP), a two-year, full-time residential MBA programme is IIMB’s flagship programme.
In addition to its main academic programmes, IIMB is also engaged in facilitating research, offering consultant services, conducting seminars and academic conferences and publishing journals.
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