Play is the Best Way to Teach, Learn and Retain what is taught..

 Long back when I was teaching... and was Admin for an online course in Banking... the LMS course designed by the HR and experts in Banking used Games to teach the Importance of Being Cautious with money belonging to Bank's customers...

The course work had interspaces where games, cartoons and fun facts were inserted with interesting formats...

This method put the Onus of teaching on the Design of the course...

The entire coursework was designed to capture and hold a student's interest...

I was consulted just once about a Doubt... the coursework very adroitly Supplanted the need of a Professor...

That LMS course had me researching into various free courses offered by the industry and I started reading about... academia and industry interface...

It showed me the potential of online courses and I saw a potential for reducing the cost of academics by adding such courses as electives

Additionally such courses reduced TAT is the turn around time needed for students who are employed soon after College...

The training time needed for students who had completed courses provided by the industry tends to be negligible...

Employability of graduates increases with the addition of industry academia interface programs and unemployment of graduates reduces...

The bottom line is Games and Play being the Best Way to Teach students at All Levels right upto the PG level...

Few times a month I would use the Game CDs to give my regular BCom students a break from Regular lectures and would use the Games to cover topics with a fun method... during such classes... the entire class would participate as it was a Unique approach to teaching at the Undergraduate level...

Designing coursework to Retain the interest of the students also helps with improving the Dropout rate...

The LMS course proved one thing... Play is the Best Way to Teach, Learn and Retain what was taught...

7 th November 2020 ... musings during my trip to Talegaon ...

 today during my trip to Talegaon ... i saw soooo many restaurants shut down and abandoned for Good ...So Very Tragic the current economic situation is ... We have a Major Poverty Pandemic looming over us ... so many dhabbas and way side food stalls have been Wiped Out Forever

what should have been a summer and monsoon season full of visitors ...just did not happen and even Big Restaurant Chains have buckled ....so do we need to wonder how a poor road side food vendor just Disappeared ...

the Organised Restaurant Industry has Zero Safety Nets ....so the unorganised food industry dying is no body's concern ... no

i Dread to think what must have become of those families Dependent on the Unorganised Food Industry ...

this pandemic has been a Tsunami ...killing and taking lives and Devastating sooooo many industries

it sickens me to see governments Wasting Time discussing about War

China has not been as badly affected ...economically speaking ...so what should people do when they are well off ....

Help those Worse Off

Each of China's neighbours is facing Devastating times economically speaking

for once i hope ...China sees how Lucky it is and learns to Behave

stop Archaic ideas like Gulags and let it's Citizens Breathe and then maybe it could enter and sustain a Truly Epic Boom Phase ...

and Globally ....industries should be coming together and collaborating and learning and sharing methods to Pull Through these Tough Times ...

i would love to see what Biden does for the Starving People of Yemen ....

it's only then that his Win Will Truly Count ...

a USA that does not gift War to other parts of the World would be Real Change ....