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How machine learning can be a catalyst for transforming education Futurist Arthur C Clarke wrote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” The magic of software (giving data and rules to get answers) is often confused with the magic of machine learning (giving data and answers to get rules) but it is machine learning not software that is transforming the world of computer chess. ISTOCK We’d like to make the case that machine learning is transforming online education, but Indian online education is held back by regulatory cholesterol. Before diving into online education, let’s reflect on challenges in education. Knowing must shift to learning because Google knows everything. Metrics need shifting from inputs to outcomes because only money is not working. Differentiation and personalization are not about making things easier for children but making learning accessible by tapping into motivations and abilities. Assessment needs to shift from annu...

JUMP START What if you could intern at Google, the UN or the World Bank? Experts tell you why you should consider the option of international internships even if they are not entirely paid for, and how you can best prepare for it ORGANISATIONS SUCH AS THE UNITED NATIONS AND GOOGLE OFFER INTERNSHIPS THAT ARE OPEN TO STUDENTS AROUND THE WORLD As colleges begin to prepare for the summer, so must students. Most graduates take the nearly two months of leave to intern, which get them hands-on experience and can bring a degree of clarity to how they want their careers to unfold. ISTOCK Increasingly, students are opting to do these internships overseas. “Universities in countries such as France, Germany, Egypt and the US reach out to students because many of those who intern at an international university return there for further study, after graduation,” says Arjun Krishna, co-founder of WeMakeScholars, a studyabroad portal. Organisations such as the United Nations and Google al...

ACTIVE USERS OF THE LIRC ( March 1 st to 31 st March 2018)   All the below Active Users are eligible for one extra library card  for the month of  April 2018. Sr. No. Member No.of Transcations 1 MASCARENHAS RACHEL NOEL JACINTA 39 2 LEMOS AARON MELVINE SANDRA 38 3 GUPTA PRADEEP FULCHAND RENU 30 4 VAZE SHALAKA NARESH VASUNDHARA 29 5 HRISHIKESH MAHESH TELANG 29 6 ANTONY ALEX LEENA 29 7 PINTO GLEN JOHNSON LEENA 28 8 CRASTA RYAN RONALD LEENA 28

A skilling crisis, not a jobs crisis: Need to make skilling a key goal towards nation-building Skills should have been a priority after Independence because an unskilled or unemployed Indian is not a free Indian, and the launch of the Skill India campaign in 2015 seemed a fresh departure from the past. Young job-seekers are unable to get a job without experience, but it is unclear how they can get experience without a job. Skills should have been a priority after Independence because an unskilled or unemployed Indian is not a free Indian, and the launch of the Skill India campaign in 2015 seemed a fresh departure from the past. Taking a historical perspective, the phase 1 of skills in India was largely about a purposeless drift without vision, execution or institutions. In phase 2, while the vision was sound, but the execution was affected by the lack of institutional structures—anybody could say no and nobody...

Teachers could lose their jobs for plagiarism IN CASE OF REPEAT PLAGIARISM OF OVER 60% SIMILARITY, THE FACULTY MEMBERS WILL BE SUSPENDED, EVEN DISMISSED NEWDELHI: Student researchers who plagiarise may lose their registration and teachers who do could lose their jobs with the University Grants Commission (UGC) approving a draft regulation on plagiarism which will be notified after approval by the HRD ministry. Plagiarism in higher academia is a huge problem in India and UGC, the apex body of higher education institutions, has been threatening to come out with a plagiarism law for several years now . It finally approved the UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions) regulations 2018 in its meeting held on March 20. HT has seen the minutes of the meeting. The law prescribes graded punishment for plagiarism. The draft rules for studen...

As ‘plogging’ sweeps through Thane, joggers pick up garbage bags to burn calories in Yeoor forests THANE: Are garbage dumps and litter deterring you from going on that much-needed jog? Maybe you can try plogging, the latest fitness craze that has descended on Thane. On Sunday, 200 fitness enthusiasts in jogging shoes and sweatbands, armed with litter collection bags, entered the Yeoor forest range at 6am and picked up trash strewn across the roads while trotting forth. This is perhaps the first plogging movement in the state. The trend is said to have been conceptualised by the Swedes and has been replicated globally thereafter. The Yeoor drive was organised by NGOs Earthkids Humanity Foundation and Yeoor Environmental Society, with the help of the civic body. Mayur Jamdhade (28), a coaching institute owner who went with 30 students said, “It was an amazing three-hour ex-perience. We keep talking and reading about the ill-effects of waste and plastic, we got a...

‘Tech is not going to replace teachers anytime soon’ John.Sarkar@timesgroup.com As a founder, an angel investor and a mentor, Zishaan Hayath is a prominent figure in the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem. After graduating from IIT-Bombay in 2005, Hayath worked with ITC and Opera Solutions. In April 2008, he co-founded a phone commerce marketplace, Chaupaati Bazaar, which was acquired by Future Group in 2010. While working for the new entity, he came up with the idea a learning app after realising that students spent enormous amounts of money on coaching classes.  For details, visit: https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2018%2F04%2F01&entity=Ar02100&sk=168B79B9&mode=text%20-  Source; The Times of India dated 2April, 2018