Learning 221

1. How to Learn Anything?

If there is only one course that you may want to do beyond whatever else you are studying, then this is the course for you. It is like a master key to unlock all doors of knowledge. With the techniques that you will learn in this course and the ever growing opportunities and tools becoming available through the Internet and mobile phones, you will never be at a loss in any new field or subject. It will even help you get better grades in your conventional course of studies.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
HLA001	The maze of Learning Opportunities		HLA006	Search engines and their uses for Learning
HLA002	Myths and realities about how we learn		HLA007	Free Online Learning Resources
HLA003	Getting Motivated for Learning		HLA008	Classroom 2.0: Learning from the Internet with web 2.0
HLA004	Meta-Learning : Know Thyself		HLA009	Mobile Learning and Emerging Trends
HLA005	The paradigm shift		HLA010	Creating a Plan for Self-learning

2. Learning  to Think :

This course aims to develop the most important faculty of humans, the capacity to think. It is now agreed that learners can be taught and trained to think. While it takes several years of practice to become a good thinker, this course provides an excellent start to the journey and covers several dimensions of thinking.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
LTT001	The jigsaw puzzle of thinking		LTT006	Problem Solving, Algorithms and Heuristics
LTT002	Mind maps and other tools for Thinking		LTT007	Arguments and Reasoning
LTT003	Critical Thinking		LTT008	Fallacies
LTT004	Logical Thinking		LTT009	Paradoxes
LTT005	Lateral Thinking/Divergent Thinking/ Creativity		LTT010	Developing insights from raw information

3. Yearning to Learn :

This course draws upon all the learning and wisdom available, to encourage and inspire learners to take an interest in their learning and in fact exhorts and inspires them to take charge of their learning, thereby transforming themselves from passive to active learners.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
YTL001	The joy of Learning		YTL006	Yearning to learn as an auto-catalytic process
YTL002	Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation		YTL007	Movies to enhance learner motivation
YTL003	Pedagogy, andragogy and allied matters		YTL008	Enhancing learner motivation by denial
YTL004	Memes: an aid to learning		YTL009	Creating learning moments, time management and nano-learning
YTL005	Self-esteem and learning		YTL010	Collaborative learning with learning partners to enhance motivation

4. Personal Financial Literacy :

We are now in an age when every individual has to take a greater responsibility in the management of finances. The domain is wide and complex and many people are gullible. This course guides the learner through the most important and critical knowledge essential for good personal financial decisions.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
PFL001	The Economic way of thinking		PFL006	Frauds and protection from them
PFL002	Saving and Investing		PFL007	Benefiting from a large windfall
PFL003	Assets Building		PFL008	Insurance Matters
PFL004	Retirement Planning		PFL009	Bankruptcy
PFL005	Borrowing Money		PFL010	Charity

5. Interacting with humans & machines:

This course goes beyond traditional programs on communication skills to address the digital and mobile world, with accent on emerging tools, and the need for accuracy and precision and preparing for a life with robots as part of our daily lives.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
IHM001	Reading, writing, listening and speaking effectively		IHM006	Effective use of mobile phones and Handheld devices
IHM002	Accuracy, Precision and Time Management		IHM007	The Digital Lifestyle
IHM003	Cross-cultural Communication		IHM008	Social Networking
IHM004	Stories for Information Transfer		IHM009	Cloud Computing, Netbooks and smart USB drives
IHM005	Visual Communication		IHM010	Living with Robots

6. The overwhelming concerns :

This course explores several sets of interesting moral, philosophical, socio-historical, literary, and theological problems that  have engaged humanity through major writers and thinkers of the past several centuries.

 

S. No.	Title		S. No.	Title
OWC001	What makes a humane Society?		OWC006	Is technology driving us to destruction?
OWC002	Is human mortality inevitable?		OWC007	How could humans best govern themselves?
OWC003	Can there be an end to poverty, ignorance and illiteracy?		OWC008	Do I dare disturb the universe?
OWC004	Are there limits to human knowledge?		OWC009	Can consciousness and mind be explained in terms of matter and energy?
OWC005	Is sustainable development itself sustainable?		OWC010	What is the purpose of our life? Is there life after death?