Biggyan Releases Its Ebook - “rebooting Education”

By Author: Diipak Gupta
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BigGyan, a cloud elearning provider, launched their eBook what they bill as eLearning for dummies. A simple yet powerful eBook, ‘Rebooting Education' is a crash course for any one trying to get a hands-on eLearning.



The eBook is available for free on their website. BigGyan, the premier Indian eLearning provider is challenging eLearning market with their low cost eLearning platform targeting mass market in India. According to Diipak Gupta, CEO, We've made eLearning as easy as eMail. BigGyan is the first mass market product of eLearning in the world. With BigGyan eLearning is finally ready to take its place as envisioned by John Chambers, CEO of Cisco Systems who said the next big killer application on the internet is going to be education.



According to co-author Gaurav Bansal, The eBook primarily targets education institutes in India. There are number of education institutes who are interested in providing eLearning to their wards are using technology in an ad-hoc manner which is not very useful to anyone. Sometimes they even purchase expensive technology (both hardware ...
... and software), which ends up being useless. One of the institutes bought an expensive eLearning technology which provided education material via satellite. Today, it is lying useless at their premises. Later on they became our client and at a fraction of cost, they are providing eLearning to their students with great results. They are providing their whole course curriculum online. They conduct online quizzes and get students to submit assignments online. Teachers and students can better manage their time. During exams students are online and teachers can help them solve their problems so that their preparation is top notch. BigGyan also helped them reduce admin tasks of teachers - maintaining attendance, maintaining gradebook. For all this, they didn't required any investment in IT.



What institutes require is an eLearning strategy, says, author Diipak Gupta, The eBook has been prepared to help institutes with that. eBook starts with history of eLearning and how it has evolved to current level. This is extremely useful for a novice. In later sections, the eBook explains how institutes can start using eLearning in their institutes based on an eLearning strategy that works for them.



With co-author Gaurav Bansal describing himself as a Thought Raider, the book naturally challenges education institutes to literally reboot their institution. The book emphasizes that institutes who migrate online earlier will hold huge advantage over others. Some of our clients are already reaping benefits as enrollments have increased up to 40% at their institutes, says Diipak Gupta.



The reason for this is simple. Today students are using internet for various things. They use emails, chats. Most of them have Orkut and Facebook profiles. However, teachers are not quite at the same level. Students find it easy and interesting to use internet for various things. They tend to go to teachers who are up-to -date. The eBook helps teachers and administrators to make the change and provide their students with best facility. Without facing some challenges one cannot grow and move to next orbit.