Next Education bags innovation award

The Hyderabad-based next education India pvt. ltd, one of the premier e-learning companies in India, was awarded the prestigious Corporate Innovation in Teaching Pedagogy award at the World Education Summit 2013 convened in Delhi, for its MathsLab. Based on LAB (learn, analyse, build) ideology, MathsLab offers children an innovative platform for various activities, projects and simulations to discover mathematical ideas and validate formulae. The design objective of MathsLab is to merge three aspects of maths education — teacher sessions, student practice and hands-on activities. “MathsLab is a unique and pathbreaking offering from us and in a quick period of time has become a great hit among schools countrywide. Our team will continue to develop such world-class innovations which make teaching easier, interactive and gives a next generation learning experience to students,” said Beas Dev Ralhan, chief executive of Next Education speaking on the occasion. GlobalNxt University gets going The Kuala Lumpur-based globalnxt university (formerly Global e-University) has been relaunched as Asia’s newest online varsity and invites student registrations through its portal www.globalnxt.edu.my. “In tandem with practices of an increasingly borderless world, GlobalNxt is a global enterprise which combines all the traditional benefits of professor-led classroom learning with a contemporary flexible, anytime, anywhere learning online model,’’ said Dr. Noraini Ismail, vice chancellor and chief executive of GlobalNxt University. “Our objective is to offer learners the academic rigour of best traditional bricks-and-mortar institutions, on our online university. Students will benefit significantly from our strong emphasis on interactive pedagogy, advanced learning technology and high calibre Ph D-qualified global faculty.’’ Currently the university offers MBA, postgraduate diploma in business administration and Master of science in information technology management programmes. According to varsity sources, GlobalNxt University derives “an important academic heritage’’ from U21Global, one of the first global online graduate schools (estb. 2001). In a new academia-industry collaboration model, GlobalNxt has partnered with over 100 multinational corporations to develop innovative, technology-enabled corporate learning and training solutions. “The emergence of GlobalNxt University is a testament to the quality and rigour of the online programmes that originated with U21Global,’’ says Ian Marshman, senior vice principal at the University of Melbourne, one of U21Global’s founding universities. CEGR’s knowledge seminar The Delhi-based centre for education growth and Research (CEGR) organised a ‘Professional and Technical Education: Meeting the Demands of the Industrial and Knowledge Economy’ seminar at the India International Centre, Delhi on April 18. The programme was attended by the country’s top academics, leaders of industry and a cross-section from education-related businesses. The seminar was addressed by Dr. Kavita Sharma, director IIC; Lokesh Mehra, director education advocacy, Microsoft; Prof. M. L. Gupta, advisor JSS Technical Academy; S. P. Singh, former director, NTPC; Anil Chawla, TCS; Dr. M.P. Jain, Sharda University; Dr. A.K. Puri, director-general, ITS Institute of Management; Dr. Ravi Dhar, director, JIMS, and Dr. Atul Jain, president, CEGR. The consensus of opinion at the seminar was that India can reap its democratic dividend only if quality education is made available to the country’s youth. To enable this, institutions…