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Education News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of the education facet of life. Education-News Blog: Experiential-Education News Indian Thought Leaders Endorse October 29, 2007
At the 6th National Conference on Virtual Instrumentation in Engineering Education hosted by National Instruments, leaders from academia and industry addressed ways to improve the quality of engineering education. ‘Experiential Education’ was the theme of the free daylong conference focusing on hands on teaching and learning. The event saw participation of over 300 educators and academicians from across engineering colleges in India including IIT, IISc, NIT, VIT, RV College among others. The conference was inaugurated by the Guest of Honor, Mr. Kaushik Mukherjee, Principal Secretary, Department of Higher Education, Govt of Karnataka, followed by an address by the Chief Guest, Dr R. N. Mathur, Founder President, EQUATE. Mr. Tony Vento, Vice President, Applications Engineering, National Instruments, delivered the keynote address on Experiential Education - the innovative teaching approach that enables applying theoretical concepts to real-world engineering problems, to better equip engineers for the Industry. An expert panel discussion on ‘Experiential Education’ chaired by Dr. C. Mohan, Chief Scientist, IBM India, featured thought leaders from IIT, Intel and SolidWorks. Education News Blog Comment: Experiential education is doing first and learning afterwards; whereas formal education is learning first and doing later. But then doing is the best learning in itself. If we try to learn before we have done something, there is no picture that gets made in the mind; hence learning goes superficial and incomplete. But when we do first, the very act of doing gets us acquainted with the real time problems that the discipline may pose in front of us. So while learning later, everything goes crystal-clear then. In fact this is what the actual problem with our education system is that it is formal and not experiential. That is why in our society, we are getting mediocre workers who do not have an insight into what they do! Wanna have some bidding fun with 'Practical' on ebay auction? You might grab a bargain or two! Just say your bid and you're done: I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. This E-zine publishes insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. A not-to-be-missed opportunity! Subscribe to it here: I also invite you to subscribe to my Life Blog - no need to provide your e-mail address here. This RSS feed keeps you informed about new developments taking place on this site. It also harbors 25 journal bloglets posting insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domains of various facets of life. In order to subscribe to the blog, right-click on the orange RSS button (see buttons up to the left) and then paste the URL into your RSS reader. Or click on add to My Yahoo! button or My MSN or Add To Google button if you keep a personalized home page there. If you are not sure what RSS or blogging is all about, click on What's an RSS Feed? here:
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