Classes on the platform for EMEP has started. The classes are beamed live all over India from IIMK. Most of them in Bangalore missed courtesy a bundh for a no-reason. There is definitely a difference between direct class room and virtual class room. The virtual classroom’s technology platform (as it is knows as) has facilities equivalent for raising your hand to ask a question, professor can ask a specific student a question, instant poll by professors, pop quizzes by professors, two way video and public chat among students. However virtual is still virtual, a real class would be more effective, more so when most of the faculty members are amazing.
Bombardment of assignments has started (though not yet in a merciless fashion). Accountancy – balance sheet and stuff was interesting. Mathematics in the guise of Quantitative Techniques is getting nightmarish. Too much to assimilate in too less a time.
Group assignment is sort of interesting, we the gang-of-five have stated meeting and brainstorming by meeting face-to-face and more often virtually, in the style of the platform in which our classes are imparted. We have a decent mixture of 1 from sales, 1 from pharma clinical research, 1 from IT services and 2 from software development.
Really back to school.
November 22, 2006 at 6:44 am |
Hi I just came across this while browsing. My friend belongs to one of the former emep batch students. Classes are excellent with faculty members from one of the best B schools in the country. However do keep in mind that their technology partner isnt upto standards. Rather they are not upto IIM standrads in their service. Prior batches were made to go through a number of difficulties. It has also been observed that the engineer handling the studio at Calicut manipulates online quizzes making some of the students deliberately fail. This was his way of settling scores with people who complained against their company HECL. So be on the look out for any called stories of ” technical snag “.