PICK A LEADER NOT A BOSS

Once upon a time there was a king called ‘Sugriva’. Sugriva was ruling the kingdom of ‘Kiskindha'(Kingdom of ‘vanars’). ‘Hanuman’ was not only a faithful servant but was also a true disciple of ‘Sugriva’. Owing to some misunderstanding ‘Sugriva’s’ brother Bali turned his foe. ‘Bali was’ stronger between the two brothers. Bali took wife ‘Ruma’ and Kingdom of ‘Sugriva’ forcefully & ostracised ‘Sugriva’ from the kingdom. Hanuman also followed ‘Sugriva’ and left the Kingdom along with him. ‘Sugriva’ made several attempts to take his kingdom back and challenged ‘Bali’ to fight, but Bali seems to be unbeaten. Every-time ‘Sugriva’ used to fight Bali ‘Hanuman’ was hiding behind the rocks and would see his master getting beaten badly by his brother.

Lord Ram was, in the meanwhile, rambling in the forest in quest of Mata Seeta. Eventually, he came in contact with ‘Sugriva’ and helped him in conquering ‘Bali’. Hanuman on the other hand got influenced so much by the aura of Lord Ram that he became ardent devotee of Lord Ram.

The Moment the leadership changed, ‘Hanuman’ began to grow vigorously in his skills, abilities, strength and performance. He turned in from inapt to a consummate performer. It’s evident that same ‘Hanuman’ who used to hid behind the bush when ‘Bali’ used to beat his master, killed deadliest monsters which were stronger than ‘Bali’, saved life of ‘Laxman’ by lifting a whole mountain and played a vital role in winning battle of ‘Sri Lanka’. Consequently, he achieved the status of ‘GOD’.

‘Hanuman’ the GOD; was same person who used to work under the command of ‘Sugriva’ and Lord Ram. The only change which gave him the status of GOD is; His decision to work with a Leader, than to work under a Boss.

Lord Ram was a leader, while ‘Sugriva’ was a Boss.

 Hence, follow a Leader not a Boss. Further you can choose to be a Boss or a Leader.

Dr. B.K Som

Associate Professor

JIMS Rohini Sec - 5 

CUT COPY PASTE-MOVING TO FAKE INTELLIGENCE

With the developement of internet as a perfect source of any information and database, the creativity seems to have lost its ground. Its a big bad world of pressures and deadlines out there. To address their daily needs, youngsters have now stopped thinking and far from pondering and contemplating on the topics or issues they want to write, create or induldge in any other form. Google baba comes handy to them as a solution for all their assignments and problems. In depth studies to make the most of the existing resource to propose a new one has given in for plaguerism.

Is it the paucity of time, lack of interest or capability which is leading to this? Students feel that if we only have to convey whatever is available on the net then assignments are just a waste of time.The seed of plaguerism has travelled to corporates, communication industry, fashion industry in a large way. The importance of propounding something new and absolutely original seems to have been left to handful experts while a common acdemician, student and researcher finds it easy to tread way by beg, borrow, steal policy! This is an alarming situation where we are moving from Artificial intelligence actually created by some intellects to fake intelligence where brains may go for a long snooze and the longer the gap the harder will be the effort for us to wake them .

If this continues, believe you me, we are heading towards an era of distorted academia and research and developing people with low or no analytical ability.

So, heres a Wake up call. One may begin with patch writing, i.e. changing things here and there, ands move to finally turn to paraphrasing. To fill your writing or thought gaps, quote lifting may help. In case if there are people who lack the opinon approach, Content curation is a great idea as it helps to aggregate multiple thoughts in one space. However while content curation, its important that you attribute the credit the right way to the deserving one. There is nothing more infurating than people who take credit of someone else’s work. So understand that you can’t change a byline in somenone’s article and call it day. So before you blog or write or develop anything again, Ask yourself a Question “Are you a good contributor or just a good googler?”

Mansi Arora Madan

Asst. Professor-Management

JIMS ROHINI SEC - 5

Well, many of you must be wondering as to what topic is all about and how does it fit in the realm of an IT faculty, who earlier had done her BCA program, Masters Program and is now trying to understand the various issues and nuances that prompt the students to bunk classes, generate innovative excuses which they hope will justify the reason for arriving  late in the  class and of course to make sincere and ardent  attempt in influencing the teacher to “adjust” the attendance lest they will be debarred in internal examination.   

The genesis of this topic goes to Mr. Ratan Tata, who led TCS, an IT company to make a mark in the world. Actually, the topic is related to an incident which Mr. Ratan Tata, faced in Germany. He, along with his friends were having dinner in restaurant. In the end, they failed to consume the entire food which they had and hence there was leftover food on their plates. They paid the bill for the food and were about to leave the restaurant when they were confronted with the officers from Social Security Organization. Someone from the audience had called in the Social Security organization with the message that visitors to restaurant have left some food on their plates. In other words, they had ordered more food than they could consume. MR. Ratan Tata and his friends, argued vehemently and protested that they had paid for the food but the officers were unperturbed. They kept on repeating,the money is yours but the resources belong to the society. Hence, the food which they had left and for which they had already paid could have been eaten by members of the society who fail to get even one time meal. Hence a fine of 50 Euros to enlighten them to order only what you can finish. This was a lesson and believe me this episode has gone viral. For, I too, have received it on my WhatsApp.

Anyway, pondering over this message, I began to contemplate as to how this episode aptly fits in our education system and how the students can be made to realize that they are wasting the resources meant for the society (i.e. the teacher) even though they are paying the fee i.e. the money which belongs to their parents. For, instance, when a student bunks a class and then comes back to the teacher, before the exam that a particular portion of the syllabus is not clear to him or as it happens most of the time he makes an ardent attempt to wriggle out some important questions which are likely to come in the forthcoming internal examination. The teacher, on the other hand, spends his  time in trying to announce and convince them that whatever is  taught in the class will come in the examination. So, the valuable time of the teacher, which can be utilized in some other productive manner is wasted.

Can we, the teachers, work out a strategy like imposing a hefty fine which may not be in monetary terms, every time when the student wastes the resources such as chatting on face book in the computer lab class or coming up with excuses such as they are participants in an event and hence they are required to practice and so  their attendance be marked accordingly but later on  these students are found to be loitering in canteen or outside the campus?  

Well I am sure something can definitely be worked out to inculcate the feeling  that they are paying the fees but they are wasting the resources meant for the society.

Natasha Narang

Asst. Professor

JIMS Rohini Sec - 5

PRODIGY OF ONLINE STUDIES- MOOCS

PRODIGY OF ONLINE STUDIES- MOOCs

Massive Open Online Course (MOOCs) are the natural evolution of Open Course Ware, first created by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2001.

It is an online course which aims at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In includes all the course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants .

MOOCs are a recent development in distance education. It includes quizzes and exams to assess the knowledge of the students. Also there is some interaction between students and teachers in every possible manner.

MOOCs Open: The course should be openly accessible to everyone and there should not be any constraint such as possession of a qualification and should also allow mixing of resources. On the other hand, the accessibility to all the educational resources (videos, lecture notes) should be free of cost whereas certain other things, like asking direct questions to the teacher, the correction of the activities, or obtaining a certificate at the end of the course may have an decent economic cost.

Massive: This online course should allow access to a very large number of students, much larger than a face-to-face class, or a traditional online course.

Classification of MOOCs

At the beginning, the MOOCs had a strong and deep collaborative philosophy (cMOOCs), but this philosophy has evolved to a commercial sense (xMOOCs).

cMOOC

A cMOOC basically emphasizes on the connectivist philosophy: it is considered as a social platform for sharing and constructing knowledge within a group of people. cMOOCs are based on principles from connectivist philosophy which indicate that the material should be aggregated rather than pre-selected, cMOOC also attempts to connect learners from all the corners of the world to each other and answers the questions and also further collaborate their projects with joint efforts.

xMOOC

An xMOOC is more reliable than cMOOC and follows a more traditional model of education that is based on lectures and videos and is well financed. xMOOCs have a much more traditional course structure typically with a clearly specified syllabus of recorded lectures and self-test problems. They employ elements of the original MOOC, but are, in effect, branded IT platforms that offer content distribution partnerships to institutions. The instructor is the expert provider of knowledge, and student interactions are usually limited to asking for assistance and advising each other on difficult points.

Ankita sharma

Asst. Professor
JIMS Rohini Sec - 5

CRAFTING INDUSTRIAL VISITS

More or less every management institute organizes industrial visits for management students. The visits limit themselves to plant visits in most of the cases. A routine process is followed where students attend a power point presentation primarily by human resource department of the particular company and then visit the manufacturing plant. Given the busy schedule, academic institutes should be thankful to industry for this additional of time. These visits add bare minimum to industry in terms of advertisement and branding. Most of the companies consider these visits under their Corporate Social Responsibility Program. They treat it as a gap bridging exercise between corporate and academia. Under the constraint of time, we as academicians should strategically craft these visits for maximum benefit of the students. Five key inputs in strategically organizing industrial visit can be;

• Visit should be with a small group of students (not more than 20). A smaller group provides high learning opportunity with administrative convenience and individual attention. Small number also ensures sensible interaction.
• One exercise eventually is to make students do a lot of groundwork before they go to visit about the particular industry. By doing so the PowerPoint presentation session can be converted in to interactive session where management students can ask questions related to marketing strategies, supply chain mechanism, HR policies and operational strategies.
• A pre visit session should be conducted to observe students’ preparation. Faculty can guide the students about ways to explore more about the particular industry.
• After completion of visit a session should always be conducted by faculty expert in order to ensure learnings from the visit.
• Every visit should end up with a learning outcome presentation. Students should be asked to present key learnings in the group.

If the industry visit is crafted with the help of these heads, the outcome of the visit will always add to students’ knowledge. These organized visits can definitely bridge the gap between theory and practice.

DR B K SOM

Associate Professor

JIMS ROHINI SEC - 5 

THE IMMIGRANTS OF BANGLADESH BANGLADESHI HINDU

We are a nation of more than 125 cr. Issues like unemployment, poverty, crime are a big challenge. While the government is fighting to make life easy for residents of the nation, another problem eclipsed of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. This problem is mounting up on a very serious note. As expected government seems to keep sleeping on the issue until it becomes big enough to be politicized. The bigger problem is that these illegal immigrants are not restricted to border areas anymore. In fact they spread deeper in to lengths and breadths of the country. Due to our corrupt system they get basic documentation like ADHAR CARD and VOTER ID easily. I don’t understand why government is in such a rush to issue ADHAR CARD to everyone without even knowing basic details. At-least one should have a domicile to get ADHAR CARD or Voter ID. In  order to survive, these immigrants start working as house servants/maids, labors or start begging at signals. A good number of them involve themselves in to crimes  such as chain snatching, rod-hold up’s, theft, signal picks, pocket picks, molestation and rapes. The crime rate has gone up due to these immigrants. The problem in front of police is that they find them hard or impossible to track, due to non existence of domiciles. Police ends up chasing a ghost. We can not blame police directly for that. Politicians for their short term benefits help them in getting all illegal things like colonizing and basic documentation. So that they can create their own vote bank. They miss the long term impacts on nation and INDIAN Citizens. As a citizen the matter seems to be beyond my control and protest. I don’t know what to do other than writing. Probably it should be addressed to prime-minister or home minister. But the frustration is that they are politicians too. Sometimes i feel like, yes every country has problems but they have leader with huge patriotism, vision and zeal to serve society. I agree the leaders of that kind are also here but the number is like salt in dough.

Most we can do is to take precaution. Take a pain and get documents submitted to police station before hiring someone for sensitive jobs like house servants /maids or putting a regular auto-rickshaw or cab for kids & females. Please ask for domiciles and inquire all about geographical belonging before hiring.

Keep your families safe and make this country a safer place.

DR B K SOM

Associate Professor

JIMS ROHINI 

TRANSITION FROM SOCIAL NETWORKING TO KNOWLEDGE NETWORKING

A social network is a social structure made of individuals (or organizations) called “nodes,” which are tied (connected) by one or more specific types of interdependency, such as friendship, kinship, financial exchange, dislike, or relationships of beliefs, knowledge or prestige. In the world of e-learning, the closest thing to a social network is a community of practice, which is characterized by “a shared domain of interest” where “members interact and learn together” and “develop a shared repertoire of resources.” Knowledge networking is an effective way of combining individuals’ knowledge and skills in the pursuit of personal and organizational objectives. Knowledge networking is a rich and dynamic phenomenon in which knowledge is shared, developed and evolved. It is more than access to information, because it also delves into the unknown. It is more than using the rules and inferences of expert systems, because it is about knowledge that is evolving. Although it verges on simplification it is the computer augmentation (typically through groupware) of person-to-person communications resulting in the development of new knowledge.

By relaxing our grip on the technology of learning we can utilize the power of “Web 2.0″, a blanket term which refers to a second generation of web-based communities and online services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, and social bookmarking and indexing sites, which enable creativity, collaboration and sharing between users.  This approach changes e-learning resources from isolated information silos to interlinked platforms.  Most importantly, Web 2.0 also includes a social element where the users generate and distribute content, often with freedom to share and re-use, and allows the user to do more than just download information.  Users “own” and exercise control over the data on a Web 2.0 site.  Web 2.0 sites have architecture of participation that encourages users to add value to the site as they use it, and usually feature a rich, user-friendly interface and may also have social-networking features.

As an academician, I have closely examined this transition from social networking to knowledge networking. Knowledge networking has given birth to the concept of lifelong learning where learning is not limited to four or six year degree courses but extends throughout the lifetime of an individual. A method that is increasingly used to promote both lifelong learning and professional knowledge is learning networks. In these communities learners participate, actively creating and sharing activities, learning plans resources and experiences with peers and institutions. One of the key requirements (and strengths) of a learning network is a wide cross-section of participants which gives the network a healthy diversity of opinion. The participants can be learners, instructors, industry affiliates, tutors, managers or anyone seeking to benefit from the activities, resources and experience made available by the learning network. An important point to note is that different on-line places have different characteristics – each forum, discussion list or departmental network has a different often uncodified way of working and interacting with each other. Therefore its newcomers must take time to understand the specific protocols and culture of the network they are joining.

Mrs. Deepshikha Aggarwal

Associate Professor

JIMS Rohini Sector - 5