“EDUCATION GAMIFIED”

Prof. K.Sindhuja

Assistant Professor

Sankara Institute of Management Science

 

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
– Benjamin Franklin

 

Introduction:

Gamification of instruction is a creating approach for expanding students’ inspiration and commitment by fusing game plan components in instructive conditions. With the developing prominence of gamification but the then blended achievement of its application in instructive settings. To make the young talents to educate, Gamification is the new trend with enriching approaches to make the young minds active while learning.

Everybody cherishes games…

Games advanced arrangement to learning, or as it were, discovering that happens in gatherings of work on during vivid encounters. In many cases, messing around is the main technique youngsters use to investigate higher-request thinking abilities related to making, assessing, dissecting, and applying new information.

Gamification In An Educational Context :

Games have numerous components that make them amazing vehicles for human learning especially in young minds. They are ordinarily organized for players to tackle an issue; basic expertise required for now and tomorrow. Numerous games advance correspondence, collaboration, and even rivalry among players makes the young champs get more engaged with the teaching and learning techniques. The absolute most vivid games have a rich account that brings forth inventiveness and creative mind in its players. At long last, contingent upon how they are structured, games can both instruct and test their players. They are staggering bundles of instructing, learning, and appraisal.

Instances of Gamification in the Classroom:

• focuses on meeting scholarly goals
• Knowing meeting procedural/non-scholastic destinations
• Creating lively hindrances
• Creating rivalry inside the homeroom
• Award understudies with identifications
• Integrate instructive computer games into your educational program
• Stir up a little rivalry

Conclusion:

Though the education system finds more new number of techniques to make the students get more attached to the studies. Nothing takes part without the role of a teacher.

A teacher is more powerful to incorporate all the new techniques in education. Gamification techniques get more interested only with the help of the teachers to make the new method of teaching.

Here we go ending up this blog with a famous quote of Andrzej Marczewski                         

“GAMIFICATION SHOULD NOT BE ABOUT CONTROL. IT IS ABOUT MOTIVATION AND ENGAGEMENT”                    

Introduction to Cryptocurrency

Prof. S. Thilak, Assistant Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of  Science and Commerce

 Introduction

          Cryptocurrencies is a Digital Asset used as a medium of exchange in Internet which uses the cryptographic functions to manner financial transactions. Cryptocurrency is also known as BITCOIN there are various types of cryptocurrencies like Digital Token, Tokens, Digital Assets, Digital currency, virtual currency, crypto coins and Digital coins. Cryptocurrencies are more like stock than Fiat currencies like the US Dollars. This is which the practice of techniques for secure communication.

History and Future of Cryptocurrency

            Cryptocurrency was first introduced in a white paper by Satoshi Nakamoto in the year 2008. In the year 2009 this was changed as Open sourced software and in the year 2010 the total control was handed over to Bitcoin core developers. The introduction of ‘altcoins’ was started in the year 2011.

            There are 100 of Bitcoins are in the market. ICO’s (Initial Cryptocurrency Offer) is regulated on crowd funding, ICO’s are becoming an attracting option for raising capital for start ups and even for more establishing companies. The Government and banks have to adopt this block chain because of Increased competition and many fake ICOs. If the Government or the bank adapts, the regulation will be created and the market will become more stable and the payment process will be more compatible.

The Features of Cryptocurrency

• They are irreversible, once person has invested in an option, they cannot change it to any other option or withdrawn.
• Fast Transaction, where ever the person be the transaction of the cryptocurrency is faster than any other transactions including banks.
• Secured, nobody knows your identity and this is to protect the investors identity and for security reasons.
• Your funds are safer than in a Bank.
• Cryptocurrency is easy to get started.
• Controlled supply could boost value overtime.
• Banks cannot touch you, because this act as a monetary body.
• Self-interested quality control.
• Processing Fee or the commission are be charged at the lowest.
• Easy to use and anybody at any age group can buy and sell cryptocurrency at any quantity.

Types of Cryptocurrency

            Hot and Cold Wallet: Cold wallet is not connected to the Internet and Hot wallet is either connected to the internet or is located on it.

            Software wallet needs to be installed on electronic device which has two options Desktop wallet which is installed in Computers and Mobile Wallet which is installed in Mobile phones or tabs.

            Online Wallets: It is considered to be a hot wallet and needs to access to a browser and internet, it is least secured and private keys are stored on a server.

            Hardware Wallets: Stores private keys on a physical device, the device is resembling a USB and it is process are simple to use.

            Paper Wallets: This the first form of a cold wallet before hardware wallet, paper wallet is a physical copy or printout of your keys, software is used to generate keys and investor print them out and Scan QR code or enter private keys to transfer funds from wallet.

Cryptocurrency Exchange

            The cryptocurrency exchange is a website where you can buy and exchange digital currency the person has the option to trading between different crypto-coins or traditional fiat money like US dollars. These are the exchange like traditional stock exchanges, traders make transaction based on the cryptocurrency market price. The intermediaries charge the commission for the transaction exchange or trading platform, direct trading and brokers. The fees are based on their choices they don’t have fixed market price.  It also depends on the location, reputation, exchange rate, fees, payment mode etc.

                   AI a new transformation for HR

Dr. Priya Kalyanasundaram , HOD, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

       Artificial Intelligence has been accepted world wide in all business and to every department and especially in Hr Department the future of HR Department is going to be both human and digital from recruitment to talent management.

Personalized Engagement

HR is no longer a recuritment department it will be more of strengthning the business hence in future it will be more towards personalized engagement . It can be more effective during employees on board.

Decision Making

Hr plays a major role when it comes to hiring process but nowadays  Artificial Intellignece helps in making the process easier and making a right decision in choosing a right candidate for the job and also saves the cost . AI  software will evaluate and choose eligiible candidates for the job.

Training and Learning

Today knowledge updation is more important employees has to keep on learning or undergo training for upgrading their skills. AI can help us in planning , organizing and coordinating training program for the employees.

Retaining

Retention of employees is more complicated than recruitment as for retaining we need to understand the need and requirements of employees here AI can help in  analyzing and Predicting the needs  of the employees Retention oriented Ai technologies can help in engaging the employees

Repetitive task

HR has to do certain daily  task which are repetitive such as payroll, reports etc, these work can be done by the AI and the HR can focus on building employee relations

      Though we can say AI makes our job easy but we require employees with skilled knowledge in doing the work effectively. Even AI has entered in each and every organisation but human cannot be neglected now or even in future.

AUTOMATED PACKAGING SYSTEM BY FINDING SUITABLE OPTIMAL BOX SIZE IN WAREHOUSE PACKAGING

Dr.D.Sathishkumar, Asst. Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

MAGIC LOGIC BLACKBOX- Solution to determines the optimal size and fill material for each box optimal fulfilment.

            Packaging affects many aspects of the business in the product line and the organisation business growth. Revenue growth and the cost reduction can be tied directly to the way the packages and ship the products. Industry packaging materials are processes need to adhere to certain standards of quality and safety. Packaging is extremely important to the business. The machines used to package the products comprise just few of the many moving parts to the packaging process.

The Challenges in packaging system in essential food beverage industry, when customers need the commodity they want to place order quickly and efficiently. The current packaging system comprised a few standard boxes, the warehouse person to select the most suitable sized carton and they had to facilitate the process of producing the shipping boxes. To ensure the customer order in perfect condition the warehouse packaging person would decide on the best way to physically pack the product, which include any fill materials. The critical condition is for packing multiple parts packing it was often hard to find the suitable box and have to spend more money on packing materials.

The solution for the challenge is identified by MAGIC LOGIC BLACK BOX the process of cartonization. Initially the automated packaging system calculate the length, height and width of the commodity then the black box uses the information and assign the optimal box. The automated packaging system can then create the suitable and appropriate box based on the black box calculation. The black box works as a dual role as calculator and communicator between ERP system and the automated packaging system. When an order is placed by a customer, the information about the item and quantity is sent to the black box. The systems determine the optimal size and fill material needed for the box, the information is transmitted and automatically box will be created. The box created will have a unique reference number for ensuring the match with the correct sales order. MAGIC LOGIC BLACK BOX is a solution to accommodate with suitable packaging solution with different size of box for different commodity.

COVID – STAY HOME STAY SAFE TO HERD IMMUNITY STRATEGY

– Dr.K.ThirugnanaSambanthan, Asst. Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

 The number of Coronavirus Cases all over the world is 4,268,490.  This pandemic deadly virus has killed 287,463 people.  So far 1,533,369 have recovered. Stay Home Stay Safe was the slogan followed throughout the world to fight against this deadly virus.  India has 70,287 people infected by corona and more than 2,294 people have died.  India had three lockdowns so far.  We have been locked down for 50 days. During the first phase of lockdown the state governments had been very strict in implementation as movement of public had been fully restricted.  During this 3.0 Lockdown state governments have been liberal in implementing the lockdown. Several state governments have opened up liquor sales in which public did not follow the basic rules of fighting against corona like social distancing.

There is a big change in strategy to fight against Coronavirus.  Rather than staying away from it, now the strategy is learn to live with coronavirus environment.  Many countries are trying to follow the herd immunity strategy. Herd immunity is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a large percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through previous infections or vaccination, thereby providing a measure of protection for individuals who are not immune.

In a largely populated country like India, which has more percentage of young population some experts are recommending to follow Herd Immunity Strategy i.e. a majority of the population to gain resistance to the virus by becoming infected and then recovering.  This strategy could result in less economic damage and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop the virus’s spread.

On the contrary, many experts say that this herd immune strategy is unethical and it is potentially dangerous as it can lead to larger number of deaths. This strategy will boomerang as the probability of success is unknown.

The best way to rapidly develop herd immunity is through vaccination. A vaccine delivers a small amount of a virus into the body, and the immune system learns how to fight it off without having to get sick.  So far no vaccine has been found for corona virus.  Let us watch which strategy the government is going to follow to fight against coronavirus.  Hope it chooses the best one and save the lives.

Telemedicine – “The Need of the Hour”

Ms. V. Vidhya, Assistant Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

 

      Telemedicine is the delivery of health and health related services like medical care, patient health information, diagnosis, treatment, prevention of disease and injuries via telecommunication and digital communication technology. In India where we have the highest population in person healthcare is becoming a challenging task nowadays especially in rural areas, they need to travel long distance to obtain consultation and treatment. Telemedicine / Telehealth helps in reducing the distance and cost for the patients who needs medical advice. Telemedicine is not a new concept to the medical field. It has its origin when ISRO initiated the Telemedicine in India at 2001 in collaboration with Chennai Apollo hospitals by linking it with Apollo rural hospital at Aragonda village, AP. ISRO, MOHFW, Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of External affairs and state governments played a major role in initiating the Telemedicine in India.

Most of the people in India have access to telemedicine with the help of mobile phones and computers. As the accessibility has improved the rural and semi urban population can connect with the healthcare providers easily. Medical devices like blood pressure monitors, glucose level checker can be used to monitor the vitals by the care givers. Clinicians can gather medical information online and decide on diagnosis and treatment without the patient stepping inside the Doctor office. Telemedicine in India is expected to cross 35 billion dollars by 2022 and it will become a remarkable piece of modern healthcare delivery.

Telemedicine has created a wonderful opportunity to physicians as it connects with their patients remotely and can maintain the social distancing in pandemic situations. With modern medical high-tech devices, the physicians can monitor their patient’s health in long term and with long distance. Touch screen technology provides the clinicians to access the heart rate, blood sugar level, blood pressure by transmitting data from one device to the other. Healthcare information can be shared from one specialist to the other who is in other locations. When a disaster occurs, the shortage of health resources also occurs, which can be controlled by the help of telemedicine technology. This is also the same for a pandemic situation  for e.g.   telemedicine technology can be used to control the pandemic situation prevailing in the recent times. The social distancing can be maintained for the consultation and from the peer infection by consulting through telemedicine technology. The patients who need to be quarantined can consult their doctors remotely via telemedicine for their treatment. The need of hour for the hospitals is the Telemedicine technology.

Revamping India after Covid-19: Ushering in another period of changes

Ms.K.Sindhuja, Asst.Professor, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the deadliest diseases written in the history where all of the humankind faces a typical existential risk. Inside three months, the infection has spread the world over and endangered our wellbeing and prosperity, yet in addition our social and monetary systems.

We have entered, to acquire an oft-rehashed express, ‘a period of radical vulnerability’ where we are hustling to make proper reactions, not exclusively to make sure about safe wellbeing results for all, yet in addition to guaranteeing the ways of life and occupations are ensured.

The pandemic has uncovered separation points in the worldwide exchange and budgetary engineering, disturbing our movement designs, worldwide assembling esteem chains, and administration frameworks. The emergency brings home some intense exercises: singular wellbeing results can’t be separated from the wellbeing and cleanliness frameworks of the network that national outskirts are no resistance against dangers from nature, and that aggregate worldwide activity is progressively for our own individual insurance from such occasions. The expectation remains that the COVID-19 emergency achieves a worldwide revelation with respect to the requirement for saner reactions to the next imposing (and less quickly obvious) risk: the impacts of environmental change. When this scene is behind us, if its lone inheritance is to hand down us a more astute and progressively deliberative way to deal with adjusting the frequently clashing goals of financial advancement and condition security, at that point a lot of good would have happened to it.

Living day to day after lockdowns: restoring the economy like different nations, India is additionally trying to control a prudent way between the need to protect the populace, and to resuscitate the financial motor. The thorough national lockdown has prevailed with regards to easing back the spread of the infection, and the present intuition in the administration is to open the nation for business in a painstakingly adjusted way, concentrating on resuscitating divisions like agribusiness, assembling, and administrations; while segregating geographic hotspots and helpless gatherings. The most convincing necessity for restoring the economy is to adequately deal with the rising up out of the lockdown, guaranteeing that gracefully chains are revived, assembling and administration undertakings are allowed to work, with guaranteeing essential wellbeing cleanliness.

The virus has bought the Indian Economy low due .  Though we face these hardships we people with our strong determination can make it again on our track.

“HOPING FOR BETTER TOMORROW”

How to build your personal brand at the workplace

  Dr. Priya Kalyanasundaram, HOD, Department of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce

 

       In today’s world you need not do hard work but we need to do smart work and being good does not guarantee success and every employee has to build their personal brand at the workplace. It does not mean your physical appearance or image. The term brand is similar to trust, quality and loyalty. However it can also be called as a recall value .How people remember you when you are not in the room, when do they think of you, what are you known for? Your brand specifies your image .if we develop it surely we can create strong brand equity.

The following points can develop your brand

• Knowledgeable

This is one of the best methods to create your brand; you have to be someone who clearly understands the picture and contributes towards building a new strategy .Always be open in learning new things.

Training

Share your knowledge by conducting training programs. As training is learning twice if you are not an expert spend more time in learning

• Networking

Actively participating and network is an fantastic way to prove your talent and help in proving your identity

• Clubs

  Become an active member in any club and start contributing. If your organization is engaged in any CSR activities you can participate or else if you have any new idea take the lead and start working on it.

• Incubation centre

           Incubation centre acts as an excellent platform for idea generation and creativity. If your

           Organization has incubation centers participate and submit the projects and don’t lose

            hope if your ideas are not move or not recognized Collect the feedback on where it went

            wrong and refine it.

• Mentoring

              Participating in mentoring programs provided by your organization to  the employees.

            As it is also one of the way in showcasing your experience and talents.

Depending on your interest you can pick any one or more areas .Don’t do it for name sake as it won’t add any value and may not build your brand equity. Remember that you have to do things with more passion and interest.

 

 

INDIA POST- AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE TURNS LIFESAVER IN THIS COVID -19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN

Dr.D.Sathishkumar, Asst. Professor, Department of MBA , Sankara College of Science and Commerce

People in world now facing the new experience like lockdown, battle against pandemic covid-19, economy falls and all the essential services are stopped. In this fast moving world transportation is more important people are helpless, India post which falls under essential service has been the bridge for many people across the state during the covid-19 lockdown.

Boasting the largest postal network in the world with more than 1.56 lakh post offices, of which 1.41 lakh are in rural areas, India post working around the clock delivering COVID-19 testing kits, ventilators, masks and medicines to far-flung places. The red mail vans is used for delivering parcels within the city limits but now it becomes the mode of transportation to faraway locations during the national wide lockdown with no train and flights in operations.

Apart from delivering medicines India post provides some other uninterrupted services like pension payments and banking services etc. About 14 lakh speed posts were booked about 2.43 lakh parcels used its network and nearly 11 lakh electronic money orders were registered, 1.3 banking transactions carried out totally Rs21000 crore. One lakh AePS transactions were undertaken and Rs 10 Crore disbursed among the needy and the poor at their doorstep.

Nearly 23 lakh users have transacted Rs 452 crore using this system across the country, Service through app in mobile phones are India post Payment bank app which helps to withdraw of Rs10,000 at a time.

“We are the Best-Connected service in India. We are everywhere.