There are parallels between America’s current political situation and the conditions leading to the collapse of the Roman Republic more than 2,000 years ago, according to an International Business Times commentary published on RawStory.com.Ned Resnikoff, political capital reporter for IBT, writes that the Roman Republic was decaying long before Julius Caesar marched on the city in 49 B.C. and toppled it for good ... WN.com, Jim Berrie ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingNot only is New York State the future face of the two main political parties, but with 400 delegates at stake in Tuesday’s primary race starring presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, everything can change in a “New York minute.” Indeed, the Empire State is where millions of immigrants suddenly got a new start in life and fortunes made overnight on Wall Street....
More than a foot of rain in some places flooded low-lying areas across the Houston region on Monday, forcing officials to suspend bus and rail service, close schools and government offices and urge residents to stay home amid what authorities said were extremely dangerous conditions, CNN reported."This is a life-threatening emergency....
Relief efforts continue in southern Japan following back-to-back strong earthquakes that killed at least 42 people last week and left the country in shambles, the Belfast Telegraph reported Monday.The U.S. military will join rescuers as they redouble efforts for 10 missing people on the southern island of Kyushu, where many area were cut off by landslides and road and bridge damage ... The U.S....
A report in the Belfast Telegraph Monday says dinosaurs were already on the path to extinction millions of years before the meteor impact that is widely believed to have wiped them out, scientists said.Experts have always believed dinosaurs were flourishing on Earth just before the disaster struck when a huge asteroid or comet hit the planet just off the coast of Mexico, the report said....
SASTRA University has tied up with NIIT to offer online courses to B.Tech and M.Tech students through internet-based learning portal NIIT.tv. While NIIT will provide the infrastructure, SASTRA will supply the course material ... “We have partnered with the IIT and given 13 courses under NPTEL ... ....
Even NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning), the online campus launched jointly by the IITs and IISc last year, has been trying to set itself up as an accredited route to jobs. A spokesperson said they're in talks with IT majors to ensure that students who have NPTEL certificates get short-listed by companies during recruitment and internships (including internships at the IITs themselves)....
Gurgaon-based software engineer, Vaibhav Jalan, took a computer networks course from NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning- an initiative by seven IITs and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) for creating course contents in engineering and science) in the fourth year of his B Tech degree ... For instance, NPTEL gave me an opportunity ......
VIJAYAWADA ...OER is a platform where educational materials, both open and licenced, are available for teaching, learning, research, and other purposes ... The virtual library, named after the college, also has National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) material which has the research works of students from IITs and IIMs ... ....
Students can attend lectures of best teachers ... A student, no matterwhich university he or she is enrolled with, can complete his entire degree programme online ... About 1,300 video lectures by the country’s best teachers in engineering subjects has already been created under a joint initiative of IITs, IISc and National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) ... ....
Two suicides in a month at IIT Madras is an unspeakable loss not just to the families of the deceased students but also to the society at large ... Also, apart from class-room learning, students have access to almost all the courses on the NPTEL platform, which provides an opportunity for going through the lectures as many number of times as needed. Almost all the IITs have professional counselling services in one form or the other....
LUCKNOW. Come December, engineering students of APJ Abdul KalamTechnical University will get more objective type question papers in their semester examinations. In a complete overhaul, university has now divided the entire B Tech question paper into three parts, instead of five ... The meeting also decided to allow students enrolled in PhD to pursue pre PhD course via NPTEL online courses. ....
Digital education...Despite being from some of the best educational institutions in the country, the trio found it hard to relate to what they had studied ... The connections, gamification and the ... Coursera, and NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) in the last five years, the focus has shifted to technology in higher education, though the primary education section still needs to see a substantial change ... ....
NIT director Prof T ... It was envisaged that this major thrust would revolutionise the engineering education through the use of modern teaching aids like MOOCs, NPTEL, MOODLE, Courseera. ....