Government of India has suggested to make DIY masks amid the largest global pandemic in recent times: COVID-19

The government of India has recommended that people cover their faces with homemade, reusable masks when they step out of their homes as part of measures to stem the spread of corona virus in the country. India has recorded over 2,900 corona virus or COVID-19 cases, including 68 deaths. The government has also stressed on the need of face covers for people living in densely populated areas across the country.
Amid escalating worries of COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry has put out a detailed advisory on the use of homemade protective cover for face and mouth.

“…it is suggested that such people who are not suffering from medical conditions or having breathing difficulties may use the handmade reusable face cover, particularly when they step out of their house. This will help in protecting the community at large,” the ministry said.

These handmade masks, however, are not meant for health workers or those working with or in contact with COVID -19 patients or those who are patients themselves as they are required to wear specified protective gear, the Health Ministry said.

The government has also put out detailed steps for a do-it-yourself face mask that can be made out of a piece of clean cloth available at home.

“There must not be a sharing of face covers and a face cover must be used by only one individual. So, in a family of several members, each member should have a separate face cover,” the advisory says. 

Dr Sanju Verma

Asst. Professor

RBMI, GR. Noida

http://www.rbmign.org

Developing Scientific Temperaments among Children

Scientific temperaments refers to a mindset to perceive the situation logically and investigate it objectively. It involves inquisition and logical thinking so that fallacies could be avoided. Humans’ emotions and inner desires often compels them to make wrong decisions. The scientific tempers and scientific attitude helps them to take informed and rational decisions. Further, it helps in upgrading the existing knowledge and improvements over the prevailing practices for the benefits of mankind.

As a way of life the scientific temper uses the scientific method. Scientific methods includes questioning, observing physical reality, testing, hypothesizing, analysing, and communicating.  Scientific temper at individual level exists during decision making for everyday situations. It involves repeated observations and conclusions by relating various variables on cause and effects framework of understanding the situation.

It is said that scientific temper must exists in individual to revive confidence and hope and to dispel fatalistic outlook. Since ancient days the logical solutions of social problems achieved through scientific method and scientific temperaments.   A lot of mistakes and logical fallacies are avoided from being repeated by thinking scientifically.

In this blog some activities are suggested to develop scientific temper among children -

·         Encouraging the children to ask questions.

·         Helping him to search the answer on his own

·         Allow to commit the mistakes

·         Guiding for reliable sources of reference

·         Have all recreational activities

·         Allow the children to understand in Why?,  How? and When?

·         Do not put our own ideas before the children in such a way that could hinder their creativity.

·        Teaching should be in the logical sequence  of understanding i.e from general to specific and relating these in reverse way also.

·         Exceptions must be pointed to help understand the existence of mysteries.

·         Support experimentation in day to day environment.

·         Help to create diagrams and models.

·         Help to write with reasoning.

·         Avoid using chapter questions when it comes to academics

·         Make some learning application-based

·         Advise extra reading to improve her analysis of information.

·         Chess, brain teasers and riddles games are also helpful.

-          Dr A. K. Srivastava

Director

Digital Marketing plans for Educational Institutes

The Digital Marketing plans contribute a great deal in representing the education brand to the perspective students. Higher education is not an exception when competition is arising in all sectors & industries. Educational institute should increase their reputation & visibility in a world driven by data flood. The strategies could be: Technical, Ad campaigns, user engagement, PR and content development. Also Chatbots can be implemented effectively as it is reducing wastage of time & speeding up on actions. Chatbots answer student queries in an instant & speed up the admission process. Also it helps the institute in portraying as a tech –savvy & futuristic education board. Live streaming can be utilized viz. hosting a live session & address FAQs regarding application and admission process, learning amenities, opportunities etc. Networking with the stakeholders is another arena where interacting with professors, industrial experts will get an insight of research areas & career opportunities..  By sharing Alumni, faculty & students their perspective and connecting with the parents. Also by talking to the Alumni will get a 360 degree understanding of higher education institution .The latest Google analytics reveal social signals which influence the search ranging of a web page. Hence the content must keep your audience sharing & taking. Link building should include a lot of back links to engage and retain your webpage visitors. Mobile optimization is also a foremost strategy for higher education. Hence the site should support mobile platforms because majority of your target audience will be using their smart phone to surf the web. Last but not the least improve presence in social networking websites such as facebook, twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, snapchat etc.

                                                                                                                                      Rekha  Prasad

                                                                                                                                     Asst. Professor

                                                                                                                                  RBMI, Gr. Noida

Virtual Classroom - Uses of Google Classroom Application .

Now a days due to covid-19, What I usually recommend to teachers is that they can use google classroom as their “Home Base” to teach students. They can use it as the place where we teachers can give notes and assignment to students and any student can answer the question. “If I don’t know what I’m supposed to do, where should I start?” Teachers can then place links to Google Classroom or wherever they wish for students to go to find more information or an assignment description so they’re not duplicating. The worst-case scenario would be that they would need to copy and paste an assignment description in one or the other. But even if they only say, “Your assignment tonight is on Google Classroom” and nothing else. They can then ask their students to log in so they can see what it is they’re supposed to do. Ultimately, this way of working things out creates the most transparency for teachers by allowing the most centralized access for students and parents without having to start with the question of “Where am I supposed to start?”

Need more tips on how to make the most of your work on your google classroom? 

1.      In order to see the information, teachers and students must have an email address (which some of our students do not). The courses are not searchable on the internet like google classroom.

2.      Teachers must manually add emails to their students’ individual profiles for them to receive the email, which means they need to collect them and keep them updated if they change.

3.      Teachers can assign assignment to their students and fix the grade and submission date to submit that assignment.

4.      We can manage notes and assignment in date by date (day by day) manner. And find out how many students submit their assignment on date or not.

5.      Students can also check their assignment and notes easily according to date and lecture. And after submission of assignment they can also see their grade which are given by the teacher as per performance in assignment.

For ease of teaching I am using google classroom for my students. And students can easily maintain their notes also for future purpose.

Akanksha Kamboj 

Assistant Professor

 (RBMI Greater Noida)

Social Re-engineering in Today’s Society

Social engineering is a discipline in social science that refers to efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale, whether by governments, media or private groups in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

Social reengineering is not simply slapping a social component onto existing business processes, but fundamentally changing the way work gets done, solutions are reached, and innovation is stirred. It strips away the hierarchy and bureaucracy that has long been associated with industrialization and replaces it with an open forum of ideas and problem-solving that draws out the best from employees spanning all functions of the enterprise.

These days people spend a lot of time watching movies , playing games and on social media. Adult students are no different :- they love violent games, watch movies that have violence in, indulge in addictive behaviors such as social media, alcohol, and smoking etc..

“Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called ‘education.’ Religion plays a part, though a diminishing one; the press, the cinema, and the radio play an increasing part … It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment”  

 At this point in history let consider social media as the most important influencers.

The point in discussion is social re-engineering. The way society is re-engineered to love itself, to indulge in activities that pleases one’s senses, that love to do shopping, those love spending hours chatting to friends on social media, are pleasure seeking, that loves violence, that loves to play war games and watch violent movies, and that seeks out war. We are being socially engineered to be being that what others want us to become. As there was a Eugenic movement in the last century today there is a hedonistic movement. And when this movement is sponsored by the state and the big industries the common man often fall an easy prey.

Children are the easiest to manipulate. Children’s cartoon today have just three themes. One is violence. (Chota Bheem, Motu Patlu, Little Krishna, Tom and Jerry,  and Oggy and Cockroaches) the other is a dependency (Doremon and other Japanese cartoons) the third is that of revenge (again a number of Japanese cartoons aimed at teenagers). Children growing up with these cartoons internalize the values of dependency on gadgets, violence, and revenge.

“ The questions then: where are we headed?  where are we being goaded into? who is manipulating us and why? “

Anuj Kumar Raghav

Assistant professor

RBMI Greater Noida

Auto Expo Visit of Students and Faculty

LEARNING WITH FUN AND INNOVATION IN TECHNOLOGIES

Faculty and students of RBMI, Gr Noida visited auto expo at Gr Noida on 12 th Feb 2020. Thousands of new vehicles were displayed. Our objective was to familiarize faculty and students with upcoming models and technology used in these vehicles.

We noticed lots of bikes, scooty and cars using CNG, hybrid mode. Lot of buses were on display based on greener fuel technology. In one of model of scooty battery was placed in dicky under seat. Refer attached photo. We took lot of interest in learning new used in displayed models. Chasis of a truck was modified to carry extra tonne. 

Sanjay Narayan Sinha

Assistant Professor (IT)

RBMI Greater Noida

http://www.rbmign.org

Importance of Integrated IT based Campus Management Solution

In today scenario’s Campus solutions using various software are the changing needs for higher education institutions. Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise campus solutions is a biggest example of software specifically designed for giving the facilities to the student, management, and all other users of any institute.

Features of campus solutions  software:-

• For Faculty: using this software Faculties can schedule there classes, automate course enrolment, record grades and monitor student progress ,which can also save the time of faculties and they can use there time for any other effective works.

• For Administrators:using these software Administrators can automate application evaluation, assign fees and manage billing and administer refunds. Which can help them to make there work effective and ease in use.

• For Students: Students can build their own course calendars, check their fees due, plan for subsequent semesters, verify if they meet graduation requirements and manage their alumni contributions. and also easily contact to faculty members and effectively resolve there queries.

• For Management: Management can view overall structure of institute easily decide the needs and resources for institute. Easily decide the powerful drill down and drill back capabilities, performance scenario, identify staff shortfall and overstaffing and create accurate cost and revenue projections according to the resources.

• For All Users: All users have personalized web-based access to content and transactions, status of requests, course and campus information as well as links to information and tools that allow self-service for their requirements.

Using this software, we can make our college scenario effective and improve the rank of our college.

In RBMI Greater Noida we are focusing on this scenarios to make students familiar with latest and next generation Software system used is best university’s around the world

Akanksha Kamboj 

(Assistant Professor, RBMI Greater Noida)

Union Budget 2020 - An Analysis

Union Budget 2020

An Analysis in the context of current economic scenerio

Learning is a continuous process and it must be done with zeal and enthusiasm. RBMI Greater Noida always strives for quality in professional education. Updation and validation of knowledge with experts from industries and practitioners helps in better understanding of the concepts. 

Within this context an Expert Talk and Panel Discussion was held on 5th February, 2020  at RBMI Greater Noida on "Union Budget 2020 in the Context of Current Economic Scenario". The Chief Guest and resource person was Mr Mukesh Sharma Ex CGM BoB and GM Nainital Bank. The session started with the welcome address by Ms Iram (BBA student), lamp lighting and blessings of goddess knowledge as a part of our rich tradition. It was followed by insightful talk by Chief Guest and resource person of today's session who discussed on various aspects of Union Budget. During his talk he motivated the students also to work hard for great achievements. 

After the talk  Dr Anant Srivastava, Director of the institute joined the panel discussion as moderator with Dr Parul and the resource person. The panel discussion was very interactive in which aspects of NPA, Taxation and emerging opportunities was discussed. Dr Anant Srivastava elaborated on the vision of the union budget 2020 and its possible impacts on relevant business sectors. Mr Mukesh Sharma elaborated on the issues associated with NPA of the banks. During this session the students asked the questions on GST and how to achieve the project target of 3 trillion USD economy. Dr Anant Srivastava emphasized that every citizen has to play role in nation building with quality oriented professional approach. The innovation and significant positive contribution by individual will lead to successive improvements. 

The session ended with vote of thanks and National Anthem.

Dr Anjali Singh

Assistant Professor

Department of Science

RBMI Greater Noida

My Teaching Philosophy in Practice

My Teaching Philosophy in Practice

I am very passionate about teaching because it fulfills my inner need to give back to my society what I have learned. Also, it is one of the most effective ways to master a certain topic. Therefore, when I prepare a class for teaching, I try my best to thoroughly understand the class topics in order to be able to answer my students’ questions.

When I teach a computer science class, I usually have three different goals.

• First, I want to make sure that students understand the fundamental concepts I am explaining. For this usually prepare different examples and discussion scenarios that challenge their understanding and make sure those students not only understand the examples but also the concepts behind these examples.

• Second goal is to make sure that they can apply their understanding of these fundamental concepts on other examples. I usually prepare assignments and applications that require students to use what they learned in both direct and innovative ways to make sure that they understand different concepts thoroughly.

• Third, students should be able to apply what they learn to real-life situations. For that, I usually prepare additional slides, real-life use cases, and hold discussions.

At RBMI Greater Noida, the teaching and learning are based on rigorous discussions on applied aspects besides the theoretical knowledge.

 

Anuj Kumar Raghav
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
RBMI Greater Noida
http://www.rbmign.org

Pre-Budget Discussion at RBMI, Greater Noida

On 31st January, 2020 at RBMI Greater Noida an aware session on Union Budget 2020 was organized. The main objective of this session was to aware students about Union budget and expectations from budget 2020. The session was conducted by Dr Parul Garg and Dr Anant Srivastava.
Some of the key discussed points were:

1. Importance of national budget in a parliamentary nation and it's process?
2. How crucial it is to balance the income and expenditure of country?
3. How the budget is linked to achieve the development and vision of country?
4. Corporate tax and how this impacts to every citizen?
5. Setup new corporate taxes in 2019 budget, it's impact and reformation

On this occasion expectations from the union budget were also discussed; some of the discussed expectations were- Individual tax rebate,setup of job oriented training centers, employment generation, corporate tax,ease in education loan, stock market taxation (on dividend).

In this session, role of finance minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, her leadership to handle the world level slow-down and its trivial impact on Indian economy in last three quarters was also discussed.

Dr. Parul Garg
Assistant Professor,
RBMI Greater Noida
http://www.rbmign.org

Dynamism of Management Education 

Management education is dynamic in nature and it gets updated with the trends of industry. It is quite obvious also, as management graduates are to be trained and educated as per the needs and expectations of the society to face the challenges of the industries. The skills and decision making capabilities in the changing economic scenario  and dynamic managerial environment will be sharpen only when the teaching learning processes of the institution are updated and relevant. Further, the knowledge transfer methodologies and learning infrastructural supports are also important to create good ambiance for the academics. 
Rakshpal Bahadur Management Institute (RBMI) at Greater Noida and Bareilly are carrying the legacy of quality and values based professional education since 1996. To enhance the skills of problem solving and decision making of MBA and BBA students, a holistic approach is followed during day to day academics and co-curricular activities at RBMI. In this context is is worth to mention that management graduates should also understand the concept and importance leadership so that they can lead in the knowledge driven society. In my view the true leader could be defined as follow-
"A true leader is one who creates, fosters and leads the leaders with novel vision , human values and perseverance". 
Hence, the focus of academic institutions must be perfectly aligned to develop a true leader among management graduates who can face the challenges successfully. Identifying the potentials of management graduates and fostering that potentials for the benefits of society and economy should be the main focus of curriculum and academics for MBA or BBA courses.  At this stage I would like to say "Lights of knowledge with the tools of competence and skills can solves the problems of today's society".  Hence, the ignorance and tendency to remain ignorant must be removed and awareness about latest happenings to be created for graduating students of management courses.
The performance and recognition of a good institute on best quality standards are always considered as benchmark for the stakeholders which is followed by others. The management education will have upward trends only for quality oriented institutions which are able to justify Return on Investment (RoI) for students. In last 10 years, the growing numbers of institutions shifted their approach in management education by modifying their curriculum and names of degree they are offering. In some cases, it has not worked ,but the same has successfully implemented in good institutions. It is the relevance syllabus and curriculum along with competency of faculty with infrastructural support that helped such institutions to remain leaders in management education.

-Dr  Anant Kumar Srivastava
Director
http://www.rbmign.org