All Webboard & Forum

BigGyan Cloud eLearning Transforms Information to Knowledge

Google ranks a webpage based on number of other webpages that link back to the webpage. So a webpage that is linked to by more webpages ranks higher than one that is linked by fewer webpages. The idea is simple and relates to our ordinary lives. I call this “met him, seen her” philosophy. As one becomes more important in society, one becomes more popular at the same time (that is more and more people come to know you). So if you can count the number of people who know you, it gives a measure of your importance to the society.

That is the core idea behind Google search. I dont want out Google down by trivilizing stuff. I am one of the biggest fans of the company. It is because Google implemented these simple ideas impeccably and created something so useful and literally changed our world for the better.

So what Google does is great job of organizing information. However, information is only bits. It is useful only when it becomes knowledge. Information becomes Knowledge when it becomes a concept in your brain that can be applied to real life problems. That is where BigGyan comes in. We go a step ahead of Google. Our goal is to help convert all the information in the world into knowledge.

How do we do it?

We can learn through experience or through a learning material. The learning materials are available at various levels of granularities- an article, a book, a course, a Ph. D. (original research).

1. You want to perform a specific task like repairing a clock, you can read a how-to article on internet.

2. You want to learn how to make a specific product like making a mechanical clock. Probably, you can find a book on the subject.

3. But if you want to be acquire general skills to design and make a machine to solve a real-world problem, arguably you need to be a trained mechanical engineer. You need to take courses in mechanical engineering.

4. You can go ahead and conduct your research and come up with a PhD thesis. But most people don’t need to go to that level.

So “course” is just at the right granular level that we have come to agree over time to be just enough to be able to train one enough so that one can use the knowledge in more general way.

That is where we come in.  BigGyan Cloud eLearning is result of simple ideas coming together to make something that is so useful that you have to use it. Beauty is in the simplicity.

Using BigGyan Cloud eLearning one can create courses easily. You can include various types of content – Text, Rich Text, Video, Audio, Flash, interactive animations, interactive chemical compounds and so on. Further, you can add content from various sources on internet or content prepared by you. It  works on WRITE-ONCE-USE-MULTIPLE  times paradigm. The UI helps you perform these tasks effortlessly. 

Apart for learning resources, one can also include multiple activities to make the material more effective. Activities include online quiz, assignments, workshop for peer assessment. 

Learning is largely a social activity. BigGyan becomes a virtual classroom as students and teachers can interact online while working on resources and activities. The interaction can be synchronous using chat or asynchronous using forums. So no student feels helpless or left behind. They can post their problems online and discuss them out with others.

Find More Knowledge Articles