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The Effect of Integration of Different Online Education Methods on Educational Advancement and Student Development: A Study
Get PDFPurpose: The academic year 2020-21 and the first part of 2021-22 have been recognized as the e-learning era. The forced shut down of educational institutions as a result of stringency measures undertaken by the government to contain the COVID-19 pandemic disease, technology-assisted education became an alternative to the existing method. There was a total paradigm shift from conventional methodology to online education. For both students and the teachers, it was a real challenge to get accustomed to this new mode of teaching learning. Different educational institutions used different technologies and methods with the sole objective of imparting quality education to their students. This paper focuses on how well the integration of different online education methods are effective among the students of higher education as the education sector observed unprecedented changes during the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted to investigate the views of students about online education. The responses of students about different methods used for e-learning are collected and the analysis of the will enable to give some recommendations to the stakeholders of education sector.
Methodology: The data essential for analysis is collected using non-probabilistic sampling method. Based on the data collected, some hypotheses were developed to carry out analysis. The technique also addresses issues such as funding and budget limitations. The respondents are the students who are pursuing their higher education. Priority is given to the student of higher education because of their familiarity with the advanced technology, flexibility in adopting new learning platform. The required values were taken out from the original dataset and used to construct sub-datasets to be used for the analysis.
Findings/Result: The findings of this study show that students in higher education are satisfied with how education is being delivered in the midst of the pandemic. Educators are using and integrating many types of online education tools as an alternative to traditional methods of instruction, especially in this time of crisis.
Originality: This study is an effort to analyze the satisfaction of students about effectiveness of integration of different online education methods at higher educational institutions. The results of this analysis can be useful for the policy makers and other stakeholders of the higher educational level for operative decision-making about measures to be followed for making online education more effective.
Paper Type: Exploratory research that uses primary data and summarizes it for further analysis. Furthermore, some statistical techniques are applied for the data analysis.  
A Comprehensive Study of Talent Management Process adopted by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Get PDFBackground /Purpose: Talent management is the kernel of human resource management, the process of procurement of the right people to be absorbed by a company based on its business requirements. The surge to absorb the right competency in the global market has forced every corporation to build a vibrant process to acquire the best, develop and engage the acquired effectively to achieve optimal results. This paper is a comprehensive study on acquiring information on the Talent Management process adopted by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).
Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is based on the data collected from secondary sources of information. The main sources of information are annual reports of the company and websites. It is an explorative research case study that aims at identifying the best practices in terms of the Talent Management process and to perform SWOC analysis.
Findings/Result: Based on the study, TCS has a robust process in place not only to acquire the best talent but also to nurture the existing talent within the company. This well-established process has helped the company to have maximum employee retention, which is a great asset while considering the impact of human resourcefulness in the growth of the company.
Originality/Value: This paper analyses and interprets the Talent Management model of TCS based on its past 5 financial years of data. Based on the findings and their interpretation, new knowledge in the form of recommendations/suggestions are presented.
Paper Type: Company Analysis as a Research Case Study
Paytm’s Journey Towards Digital Payment in India – A Case Study
No full textBackground/Purpose: Paytm that represents Pay-through-portable is by and by the main market player inside the e-wallet exchange. Paytm is the largest financial services firm in India, offering full-stack payments and financial solutions to clients, offline shops, and internet platforms. During this contextual analysis, worked to conceal Paytm's sale and positioning scheme, primarily after the demonetization drive was declared on November 7th, 2016. It is worth to discuss the strategies of Paytm towards digital payment in India.
Objective: To observe the growth of Paytm and review the contributing factors that helped this growth.
Design/Methodology/Approach: Analysis and presentation of information collected from various scholarly articles, web articles, and also using SWOT framework.
Findings/Result: Based on the study through various resources and also by analyzing the facts and figures, it is observed that sustaining in the financial field is a difficult job that requires many strategies and procedures to be followed. Creativity, Innovation, Sustainability, Motivation are some of the proven solutions for the same.
Research limitations/implications: The analysis and solutions mentioned in this paper are limited to companies whose business and annual turnover and experience are as close to Paytm
Originality/Value: This paper focuses on various factors and scenarios that have made the growth of Paytm possible and taken it to the level of success.
Paper Type: A Research Case study paper on the digital payments of Paytm in India after demonetization
A Study and Overview of the Mobile App Development Industry
No full textBackground/Purpose: We are in an era where a lot of disruptive technologies that change the entire perspective of the market are arriving very often. One such is the emergence of Mobile App Development, which completely changed the way users utilized software. Even though software development generally meant a stand-alone or Web application in the past, now it has enormous space given to Mobile App Development. Standalone technologies demanded the user to have a Personal Computer at least, with them to utilize their applications. However, since the platform on which an app can be deployed is just a mobile phone, the target audience for this type of application development becomes manifold. App development that targets handheld devices has now become a standard by which services reach the target audience faster since almost everyone has access to a mobile device. The App Development industry has only grown in leaps and bounds ever since its inception. This paper discusses in detail the Mobile App Development Industry and its predominance in India.
Objectives: To analyse and understand the Mobile App Development Industry worldwide and in India, to understand the preference, usage, revenue, cost, and scope of App Development in India and to perform a SWOC Analysis for the Mobile App Development Industry.
Design/Methodology/Approach: A detailed analysis of the Mobile App Development Industry is done by various secondary data sources such as websites and blogs. Some Scholarly research articles are also referred to understand the challenges in the industry.
Findings/Result: Based on the SWOC Analysis of the Mobile App Development Industry, we can say that this industry is going to be one of the most sought-after industries especially in a pandemic-stricken world.
Originality/Value: This paper, analyses various aspects of the Mobile App Development Industry. Based on the analysis, the current and future state of the industry is presented.
Paper Type: A research case study paper on the Mobile App Development Industry
Retrospective Experiential Learning Theory and its Impact on Countering Social Exclusion in Ecotourism
No full textRetrospective Experiential Learning (REL) is an instrument for regularising and normalising the guiding experience of the guides. Ultimately it results in routinising the very rare excellent service that happened earlier. In this paper, the Retrospective Experiential Learning test is carried out at Thenmala and PTR concerning Client Associations Management. Guides have been asked to reminisce their good experiences in connection with tourism services. REL has contributed towards enhanced service quality. The empirical study shows that REL can produce results. It has been found that concentrated REL strategy is not applicable to the two destinations. Here, the tourists who are assessed in connection with implementing new ideas told that they would prefer intuitive, imaginative, creative, participative, and idea generating environment to enjoy ecotourism with local tourist guides rather than a rigid bureaucratic environment. The paper focuses on the impact of REL on service quality in ecotourism sector. The discussions are directed towards improving service quality and its impact on social exclusion
RBI Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain - A Future of Decentralized India
No full textDespite various countries getting hands-on technology such as blockchain for banking,transaction, and multiple benefits, a developing country such as India must use thesetechnologies because of the advantages it provides in order to keep pace. In the age of digitalcurrencies and new emerging technologies, central banking is a fast-growing topic in themonetary economy. Cryptocurrencies, blockchain, and distributed Ledger technologies appear tobe feasible rivals to Fiat Currency central bank. Blockchain technology's influence behindCryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrencies have the ability to boost payments and operations by centralbanks and serve as a forum from which central banks could Perhaps launch their own digitalcurrencies. RBI Indian central bank is no less important when it comes to technology that wouldpave the way for the new economy, enriched with technology-centric growth momentum, byincreasing support from India's reserve bank and the Indian government for innovation andintegrating technologies through regulatory sandboxes and various other systems. This article illustrates distributed ledger technology in the Indian context. The secondary data were obtained from various scholarly journals and websites. We have analysed distributed ledger technology, India’s move towards learning new technologies, different central banks distributed ledger project and examined blockchain technology in the Indian market using the SWOC frameworkas a research case study
Active Democratic Citizenry: A Determinant of Good Governance - A Case Study of Nigerian State
Get PDFThe activeness of any nation citizenry determines how effective and the types of government such a nation will have. In the case of Nigeria, Nigerian citizens have been engulfed by stark illiteracy and chronic ignorance. Citizens have failed in their responsibility of participating actively in the polity of their nation. Citizens have been blindfolded that they cannot even differentiate between good governance and bad governance, as they still blindly pledge their support to bad leadership and to the decayed political parties of Nigeria, e.g. APC and PDP. Citizens found mostly in this blindness are the South western citizens despite their level of education. This paper examined the inability of Nigerian citizens to read within the lines and understand the dangers inherent in the politics of these two political parties of APC and PDP, and the fact that both parties have no better ideology and plans to better the lives of Nigerians. The paper examines the difference between People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and All progressive Congress (APC) ideology in terms of corruption in Nigeria. The paper finally examines the effect of non-democratic citizenry in Nigeria. This paper adopts the hybrids method, as interview methods of data collection are adopted while other data are gotten from the readymade works of scholars and from the common sense views of the writer. This paper finally proffers workable recommendations to the problems of bad leadership in Nigeri
Exclusive Brand Outlet Expansion Framework for Lifestyle Brands in India (EBOE-LS)
No full textThough EBOs’ (Exclusive Brand Outlet) risk-mitigation is a collective responsibility of lifestyle brand and the expansion partner (franchisee), a majority of lifestyle brands in India believe that the risk of capital investment/recurring expenses of EBOs and profit generated by EBOs has to be owned by the expansion partner. This belief and unbalanced business strategy of lifestyle brands though attract franchisees in the early stages of EBO expansion due to the brand’s reputation in the market or initial lucrative contract terms, it seriously fails to bring any long-term strategic and competitive advantages to the lifestyle brand as the drop-out rate of expansion partners increase significantly after one year of operation. This belief is also distracting lifestyle brands from understanding the long-term positive impact of EBO expansion frameworks that could balance the risk-mitigation and profits between the brand and the expansion partner. A single theory, model and framework of ‘Firm-Contracts’ and ‘Distribution Systems’ from the existing literature available across perspectives, paradigms, and areas of study (Economics, Business Law, Market Penetration, Business Strategy, Marketing and so on) is not entirely applicable that could be adopted to suit lifestyle brand’s EBO expansion plan in India and designing a framework without empirical pieces of evidence is also not appropriate. In this study, (i) we have studied existing theories, models and frameworks relevant to market penetration and expansion; (ii) analyzed 24 months’ of actual EBO data of a few select organized lifestyle brands in India across their existing expansion models; (iii) borrowed experimental findings and insights from previous studies relevant in this context, to identify key decision and investment-making areas that could result in a balanced business contract between a lifestyle brand and the expansion partner thereby designing an economical/effective framework that would be useful in deployment of appropriate tactics of deciding a right EBO type for every City Type and the Store Location by a lifestyle brand in India. The framework is named as EBOE-LS
IBM Watson Industry Cognitive Education Methods
No full textData analytics converts bulk of data into insights for business, healthcare, insurance and education. An upcoming development in IBM’s data analytic approach towards education is cognitive learning systems. Human being and machine can communicate each other by the technologies that use Natural Language processing and Machine Language together in action. Presently, many students struggle for their education without any goals. In this sense, cognitive systems should improve student education and results with a customized perception of their learning. IBM has recently pointed his service on education by its supercomputer or computing technology, IBM Watson. Such systems can provide an expert assistant to all varies of professionals in their respective fields. It is also being used widely to assess student performance and to help educators in the classroom develop more constructive instructional practices for their students. It helps the teacher to collect attendance, marks detail and to analyse the individual student’s interest based on his result. This industrial analysis will explain the power of data analytics in classroom by the teachers to assess the student’s personal behaviour and the way it is used as a tool by the teachers to determine student’s interest in finding the better career. Based on individual student outcome, Watson using AI will find solutions to improve quality and policy of education. Here AI technology gives tools to the teachers they need to be most effective and help learners perform at the top of their abilities like tutors, childhood vocabulary development and personalizes content for students based on mastery. Data Digital services and apps are used on learning and they help in the learning experience. This study will help to understand the way different technologies working together in predictive analytics and to prepare a report on admission, number of attendances, student dropout rate, their result analysis and their future. This study will analyse the success rate of personalised education of student using cognitive learning skills
Operation of Price Adjustment in Construction Projects
No full textThe construction industry always faces problems on price fluctuation and adjustment of the price to compensate the cost fluctuation becomes necessary. There is dilemma on which formula of price adjustment to use in construction contracts. Price adjustment affects all the stakeholders i.e. client, consultant and contractor. This research has revealed about the trend of the cost of components of construction i.e. labor, material, fuel, equipment, etc. and compare the different formulas of price adjustment Ten contracts commencing within 2010 A.D to 2019 A.D have been chosen. The formula used in the contracts has been compared with other formulas under same circumstance that original formula was used. The cost of fuel and bitumen cannot be predicted as it is fluctuating with respect to time. PPMO formula for Price Adjustment use NRB index of labor, material and equipment or fuel. Labor index has increased by 44.86 % during June 2015 to June 2019. Material index is fluctuating and has increased by 20.66% and Equipment index by 31.54%. Comparing the price adjustment factor using different formulas it is seen that the value of price adjustment factor using different formulas are different and change with course of time. Thus, it cannot be generalized that which formula could give minimum value of price adjustment. It depends upon condition such as time, index and cost