Sunstone Business School Launches India's First MOOC in Management
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Sunstone Business School Launches India's First MOOC in Management
NEW DELHI, December 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Sunstone Business School (http://www.sunstone.in [http://www.sunstone.in ]) is the Leading
Specialized Management School for Working Professionals in India
Sunstone Business School [http://www.sunstone.in ], the leading specialized Management
School, today announced the launch of India's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). By
pushing boundaries as an educational innovator, Sunstone Business School is bringing a
paradigm shift by enabling the professionals aspiring to grow to receive the finest and
continuous management education in India. Sunstone aims to offer free online courses
across all management disciplines.
"The mindset of professionals today is changing - it's no more about getting a degree
or a certificate, but about enhancing knowledge, and personality. However, there is a
dearth of quality courses that allow professionals to up skill or cross skill along with
managing professional and family lives. We saw a huge need for quality online courses
delivered by taking real world problems and imparting concepts in the course of solving
them. We have already seen huge success of MOOC in US such as Coursera, edX, Udacity with
millions of students enrolled so far. The MOOC is our effort in bridging this gap by
opening up the knowledge for larger community and building a continuous and a flexible
learning environment in India. These courses aim to equip professionals with relevant
tools and concepts to advance their careers, learn from the best in the business and
develop a higher level of personal confidence," said Mr. Rajul Garg, Director, Sunstone
Business School.
Sunstone started delivering its courses since December 2012 and did a soft launch with
a 3-week course on Negotiations
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/short-courses/negotiations ]. More than 1,000
students have applied so far for the course from all across India as well as
internationally. Students are able to earn academic certificate as credentials for
completing courses. Now, Sunstone is launching its next course on Entrepreneurship
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/open-courses/ideas-into-action-1 ] in January 2013
and is already seeing a huge interest in enrollment.
Sunstone Business School Open Courses is the only MOOC delivering courses using
problem based learning approach unlike others that rely on the traditional lecture-centric
approach. The key to delivery of the MOOC is the learning management system and the
various pedagogical elements such as videos, webinars, simulation exercises, situation
analysis, and discussions. Sunstone Open Courses are unique as it continues to leverage
technology and still provide peer-to-peer exchanges with a prominent focus on "do it
yourself" philosophy. "When a student joins one of the courses, he/she also joins a
community of thousands of participants with diverse experience that enables students to
further learn and network with the peer group. In India, the concept of MOOC is very new
and we believe it will bring a long lasting paradigm shift in management education in
India," said Ms. Megha Khatri, Program Manager for Open Courses at Sunstone Business
School.
About Sunstone Business School
Sunstone Business School (http://www.sunstone.in [http://www.sunstone.in ]) is the leading
specialized Management School for high quality working professionals
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/sunstone-business-school/meet-the-class ] in the
IT/ITES industry. Sunstone's one year Post Graduate Program in Management has gained
recognition as a premier program accepted by the industry globally. The school's problem
based pedagogy offers students a robust grounding in business strategies and
implementation.
To know more about the MOOC, please write to opencourses@sunstone.in or visit:
http://sunstone.in/management-program/open-courses
Primary Media Contact: Dinesh Singh, dinesh@sunstone.in, 91-9871743222
Secondary Media Contact: Megha Khatri, megha.khatri@sunstone.in, 91-8800393805
Sunstone Business School
CONTACT: PRN
NEW DELHI, December 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Sunstone Business School (http://www.sunstone.in [http://www.sunstone.in ]) is the Leading
Specialized Management School for Working Professionals in India
Sunstone Business School [http://www.sunstone.in ], the leading specialized Management
School, today announced the launch of India's first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). By
pushing boundaries as an educational innovator, Sunstone Business School is bringing a
paradigm shift by enabling the professionals aspiring to grow to receive the finest and
continuous management education in India. Sunstone aims to offer free online courses
across all management disciplines.
"The mindset of professionals today is changing - it's no more about getting a degree
or a certificate, but about enhancing knowledge, and personality. However, there is a
dearth of quality courses that allow professionals to up skill or cross skill along with
managing professional and family lives. We saw a huge need for quality online courses
delivered by taking real world problems and imparting concepts in the course of solving
them. We have already seen huge success of MOOC in US such as Coursera, edX, Udacity with
millions of students enrolled so far. The MOOC is our effort in bridging this gap by
opening up the knowledge for larger community and building a continuous and a flexible
learning environment in India. These courses aim to equip professionals with relevant
tools and concepts to advance their careers, learn from the best in the business and
develop a higher level of personal confidence," said Mr. Rajul Garg, Director, Sunstone
Business School.
Sunstone started delivering its courses since December 2012 and did a soft launch with
a 3-week course on Negotiations
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/short-courses/negotiations ]. More than 1,000
students have applied so far for the course from all across India as well as
internationally. Students are able to earn academic certificate as credentials for
completing courses. Now, Sunstone is launching its next course on Entrepreneurship
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/open-courses/ideas-into-action-1 ] in January 2013
and is already seeing a huge interest in enrollment.
Sunstone Business School Open Courses is the only MOOC delivering courses using
problem based learning approach unlike others that rely on the traditional lecture-centric
approach. The key to delivery of the MOOC is the learning management system and the
various pedagogical elements such as videos, webinars, simulation exercises, situation
analysis, and discussions. Sunstone Open Courses are unique as it continues to leverage
technology and still provide peer-to-peer exchanges with a prominent focus on "do it
yourself" philosophy. "When a student joins one of the courses, he/she also joins a
community of thousands of participants with diverse experience that enables students to
further learn and network with the peer group. In India, the concept of MOOC is very new
and we believe it will bring a long lasting paradigm shift in management education in
India," said Ms. Megha Khatri, Program Manager for Open Courses at Sunstone Business
School.
About Sunstone Business School
Sunstone Business School (http://www.sunstone.in [http://www.sunstone.in ]) is the leading
specialized Management School for high quality working professionals
[http://sunstone.in/management-program/sunstone-business-school/meet-the-class ] in the
IT/ITES industry. Sunstone's one year Post Graduate Program in Management has gained
recognition as a premier program accepted by the industry globally. The school's problem
based pedagogy offers students a robust grounding in business strategies and
implementation.
To know more about the MOOC, please write to opencourses@sunstone.in or visit:
http://sunstone.in/management-program/open-courses
Primary Media Contact: Dinesh Singh, dinesh@sunstone.in, 91-9871743222
Secondary Media Contact: Megha Khatri, megha.khatri@sunstone.in, 91-8800393805
Sunstone Business School
CONTACT: PRN