User:Anil Prasad/Thought of the day

A place to add my thoughts on topics of public interest

Sunday, June 17, 2012

"What is reason? I think, reason is the power and logic centre of an action, which is embedded in the core of it (action)." Monday, April 02, 2012

"Man is a nano-version of the Universe ! - philosophically and scientifically" Sunday, March 25, 2012

"Setting up of Open Education systems, by ensuring accessibility along with affordability, but without compromising quality and acceptability, is very important." Sunday, January 15, 2012

"We have to explore the possibilities of ICT, to the maximum extent possible, to protect our green planet!." Wednesday, November 2, 2011

"When the world population would touch 10 billion mark towards the end of the current century itself, the only powerful tools in our hands to meet the demand for higher education would be OER and ODL." Wednesday, October 12, 2011

"Availability of effective systems to make use of existing OERs and the ability to further build on it would be crucial factors in leading future higher education systems to success." Wednesday, October 05, 2011

"The Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC), through its Transnational Qualifications Framework, has marked the start of a revolution in transborder education. Now it is the turn of Open Educational Resource university (OERu)!" 

Saturday, September 24, 2011

"How does a combination of knowledge and agricultural economies work?"

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

"Whatever field you are in, love agriculture and keep on updating changes in agriculture...not as a hobby alone, but as an alternative means of survival!" 

Friday, August 5, 2011

"Can you see some links between Personal Learning Networks and Knowledge Economies?" Saturday, July 30, 2011

"Man painfully tries to freeze the effects of natural changes by artificially creating the living environments that he thinks comfortable. Does it wide-open the way to extinction? I am thinking about a possible (or imminent?) adaptation crisis among the human beings."

Thursday, July 14, 2011

" In the case of all development projects, we have to converge the efforts being put in and funds being pumped into by various national and international agencies to facilitate a concerted effort, only that can ensure success and sustainability."

Wednesday, July 08, 2011

" Higher Education sector has a lot to learn from the Corporate sector on the effective implementation of eLearning systems."

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

" When we go back through the time line, to the maximum extent our information and thereafter imagination can take us, we see that, during those days knowledge acquisition happened in open environment and flourished through collaboration. Therefore open learning and its collaborative development are natural ways,and hence there is no question about their success or sustainability. But what happened to us is we are now far away from that natural ways, and the present generation has to learn to retrieve such skills. Of course, we additionally require some more measures and frameworks to measure the learning process as well as to ensure quality that are being demanded by the present living situations. We have promising technologies and techniques in hand to pursue this process."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, June 19, 2011

" Plan each days activities very carefully to avoid unnecessary travels. It'll be the most effective step from your part to save our GREEN PLANET!"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, June 16, 2011

" High launching price of new technologies is a usual thing. However, as years pass, such technologies become cheaper and easily accessible. Does this transition happen in healthcare sector also?"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday, May 21, 2011

" I think further concerted efforts are required in HR planning and R&amp;D in health care. Since environmental issues are accumulating day-by-day paving way for new diseases and increased occurrence of existing ones, the demand-supply-gap in HR as well as Equipments in health care sector might become drastic in the years to come. We may require more devoted contingents of well trained physicians and simpler and low-cost technologies and equipments. Can’t we think of an R&amp;D revolution for making medicine and medical technologies low-cost and easily accessible? We should think about open technologies as well."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, March 27, 2011

" I am convinced that Nuclear Energy is a reliable source of energy. However we cannot help but raise our eyebrows when we think about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and now Fukushima accidents. I am not a scientist, still I would like to ask the Nuclear Science World “Hi, can we have Radiation Absorption and Neutralization Stations?" If your answer is 'YES' I would request you to do it fast. If your answer is 'NO', still my request won't change."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friday, March 11, 2011

" Let us stand in solidarity with the people of Japan in this most difficult time there, caused by the quake and tsunami occurred today. My heart goes out to them. "

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, March 10, 2011

" Our thoughts are really the products of information- investment being continuously made by every thing in this universe from times unknown. Hence I won’t argue ‘it is me who said it first.’"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, February 17, 2011

" In my view, the emerging OER university (OERu) is going to become a University of Universities that makes each partner University truly universal! It would be the unbeatable returns for each partner University."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday, February 12, 2011

" I think, the world is moving towards the equation ‘ Sustainable development = green growth’, because value of money will be lost once the PLANET is sick."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday, February 7, 2011

" Conventionally T&amp;D budgets are being sliced during economic meltdowns just to see that the situation is moving from bad to worse. Only ODL along with OER can save this losing game."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wednesday, January 12, 2011

"Wikipedia completes a revolutionary decade on 15th January 2011.

While being itself the greatest knowledge sharing revolution, wikipedia also leads that revolution!

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday, January 10, 2011

"It is quite common that first launching of technology devices, especially in places with high density of population, generates a public sentiment that the new system is either improper or inadequate. In certain cases perseverance alone will help people to overcome this situation. But in other cases corrective actions will be necessary. The problem need not necessarily be with the technology, where as, in most cases the villain is the inadequacies in the strategies that are being deployed to develop and maintain the new systems. Failures in the part of the authorities to create awareness as well as train people in using the new system add oil to the flame. Sudden/premature and massive implementation of technology to replace manual systems will be like massive cardiac arrest. Well planned and phased implementation with community participation will ensure success. It points to the need of proper training to implement e-governance initiatives – whether in academic or administrative or commercial establishments. See the context of opinion at <a href="http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011/01/better-education-through-technology.html#comments">http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2011/01/better-education-through-technology.html#comments</a>

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friday, January 07, 2011

"I think, education is embracing ICT tools more and more strongly all over the globe. It is the need of the hour in fact. We have to establish more tested and reliable systems in place to overcome the pressures from over population (which is feared to cross 10 billion by 2050), climate change etc. Expecting online learning to adore the main stream position of education seems to be not a wild dream any more Definitely, now it is not an issue of pedagogical principles alone, where as it is greatly becoming a means for existence as decades pass.

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, December 12, 2010

"Pushing planet friendly technologies to the frontline by sharing, adopting and supporting will provide a very strong framework for all other initiatives to succeed in protecting our green planet"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friday, December 10, 2010

"When high quality standards are set in primary sector (of education), secondary and tertiary will automatically go further high, no doubt."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, December 09, 2010

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On teacher quality

"We have to ensure professional uplift/career growth of teachers (especially primary school teachers) in good pace. It will dramatically increase quality"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On gender sensitive education

" Advancement from the gender sensitive era (of education) to the gender neutral era will, perhaps, be the most revolutionary period and the outcome will be “Education for All” "

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, October 10, 2010

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On adaptation of natural changes

"In the millions of years of history, man has overcome drastic changes in the living environments by naturally adjusting himself with the changes. But today, the fortress of luxuries that we built recklessly around us has made the adaptation of natural changes quite impossible."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">On the legal frameworks for OER

"Researches should be conducted to the legal frameworks in support of OER (national/international legislations - both enacted and initiated, policies, treaties etc ) . The efforts put in by policy makers and legislators for the promotion of OER/Open Text Books should be identified and popularized so that it would facilitate further legislation in favour of OER in various parts of the world."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Friday, September 10, 2010

" There are many ways you can effectively contribute for environment protection. Can you decide today itself that you shall not use motor vehicles for travels below two k.m, as long as you are healthy and weathers are not too bad? You will be free to occasionally breach it for emergency. As responsible individuals you may also ensure that authorities build and maintain safe walk ways for you"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, July 11, 2010

"I think that "The 1billionhungry project" of Food and Agricultural Organization of UN is really a need of the time and a strong concern for the future, especially when the early symptoms of global warming are visibly felt. This year's message is strong, in fact, a voice of anger "1,000,000,000 People live in chronic hunger and I'M MAD AS HELL". <a href="http://www.1billionhungry.org/aprasad/">Let us sign the petition to end hunger</a> and stand in solidarity with FAO in this great venture."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday, April 06, 2010

"Connectivity is the Circulatory System of a Knowledge Economy."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday, March 15, 2010

"I would say, it is the strong presence and effective application of Open and Distance Learning tools that makes lifelong learning a favourite choice of the world."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, February 18, 2010

"In the Cyberspace, there is acute shortage of open and free reusable statistical data and graphs on various aspects of OER, ODL, ODL using OER etc. OER may be a comparatively younger child of education sector, but it has sufficiently grown up to trigger statistical studies. Easy access to such studies and data would definitely enhance the reliability and adaption/adoption of OER and ODL using OER and ODL in general, which is the gravest need of the time and people."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, February 07, 2010

"We all know that e-governance and related online services can substantially facilitate protection of environment in numerous ways. I think this aspect of e-governance has to be highlighted as one of the effective followup for the Copenhagen Accord, so that e-governance as well as planet saving initiatives all over the world would get additional momentum."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Tuesday, January 26, 2010

"Internet can slowdown global warming.... but for that we have to nurture civilizations of netizens."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, January 14, 2010

"THE MOST DEADLY EARTHQUAKE....WE MAY STAND IN SOLIDARY WITH HAITI"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Sunday, January 10, 2010

"A Consortium of all Nations, for developing and popularizing alternative PLANET friendly open technologies in place of existing technologies that are hazardous, is very much required. We may prefer open technologies for fast implementation and fine tuning of the same by all those volunteer to support. Open technologies will also avoid wastage of valuable resources by way of reinventing the wheel again and again. All nations in the world would be free to adopt and adapt such technologies for localized requirements"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday, December 28, 2009

"If the future environmental situations would force the world population to queue up for the daily ration of oxygen supply, floating over water and wearing heavy insulated suits, all prosperity would mean nothing but a curse. Value of money will be lost once the PLANET is sick. We do not want this nightmare to happen"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Monday, December 28, 2009

"Least needed products are an indication of acute consumerism. In acute consumerism, fortune hunters may induce false requirements, introduce products for that and attract folks to it."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wednesday, December 2, 2009

"Civilizations become stronger when knowledge is free; Creative Commons is a great way for that!"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Wednesday, December 2, 2009

"In livelihood sector OERs should be able to improve the living situations directly. It should reach the needy in their language and it should be considerate to their living environments so that it would become an integral part of their life. The interaction between the needy people and OERs should become quite natural so that both will be changing for improvements on a regular basis."

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Saturday, November 14, 2009

"In livelihood sector, OERs, whether online or printed, still mean just a repository! Being built and used by academicians and students (for academic purposes) in large. It is the sad part of it!"

<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Thursday, November 12, 2009

"Any piece of thought or information or media you circulate or publish online, on your liberty and responsiblity, can form your Blog, provided, you should have at least one landing page to link them and that page will be the home for your Blog ."

W ednesday, October 7, 2009

"I firmly believe that Open Distance Learning (ODL) supported by Open Educational Resources (OER) would build the Inclusive Mainstream Education System in the immediate future."

 Wednesday, September 16, 2009 

"No constitution is going to be final and complete as generations change. Therefore waiting for a final may be futile"

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