Idea: Anyone can learn in Harvard

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November 26th 2009

by sandeepdixit
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(42757) Anyone can learn in Harvard

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My idea is to provide a platform where students from low ranked college can attend the lectures of renowned institute/colleges professors.

I propose to create an educational portal that will host the Webcasts and Podcasts of the lectures delivered by the professors of renowned and popular universities/institutes, such as Harvard, Oxford, IIT (Indian institute of Technology) , IIM etc, on various subjects. The portal will have a global reach and therefore will cater to the needs of the audience scattered across different countries and states. For example, an IIT student will be able to attend the lecture of a Harvard professor and vice versa.

The portal will contain a timetable/calendar that will display the weekly or monthly schedules of the Webcasts/Podcasts. In addition, the timetable will allow the students to navigate to a particular Webcast/Podcast by selecting the University, Subject and Professor whose lecture they are seeking.

The students will need to subscribe to the Webcasts in advance, and the system will send the subscribers an SMS reminding them about the lecture. To view the Webcast the subscribers will need to log on to the portal by using their username and password.

The portal will also capture the subscribers’ experience of a particular lecture by allowing them to rate the corresponding Webcast or Podcast.The subscribers can rate the lecture, the teaching style etc. The ratings will help the students of other colleges and universities to ascertain the professor that best suits their requirements. In addition, the ratings will provide valuable feedbacks to the professors and help them refine their teaching methods and styles. The new professors will be able to learn through this from the experienced professors.

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	by nvluit (Kēṟālah, Afghanistan) December 10th 2010 since: 12/05/2010, Brain-fu: -441 harvard is a good education . i wish i went to harvard university	Report Abuse


	by lavanya (Varanasi, India) December 29th 2009 since: 02/13/2009, Brain-fu: 123 great idea ,not so impossible as [posted by others	Report Abuse


	by MARLINKA2391 (Guatemala City, Guatemala) December 20th 2009 since: 09/09/2009, Brain-fu: 89868 mmmmmmmmm Nice idea!!! my vote is possitive please visit my idea for this christmas. Vote me on green hand please thank you very much!! http://www.ideas4all.com/ideas/43301-_adorna_tu_kasa_en_navidad_y_ayuda_a_t- u_projimo___con_video_cancion_ameno_grupo_era_y_jesus_es_verbo_no_sustantiv- o_ricardo_arjona	Report Abuse


	by Moria (Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain) December 3rd 2009 since: 05/08/2008, Brain-fu: 13789 It is an excellent idea. I would love to listen to the lectures of certain professors, even if it is via web!!	Report Abuse


	by sandeepdixit (New Delhi, India) December 1st 2009 since: 11/17/2009, Brain-fu: 513 Hi Daniel, Thanks for sharing your views on my idea and for bringing forth the similarity of my idea with something that already exists on the Web. I found that both the links, given by you, host the Webcasts on the various subjects taught in different Universities. However, my idea is to create an online system [Portal] that will bring together the students from across the globe in order to do collaborative learning in the following ways: 1) The Portal will serve as a social-networking platform of all major universities. In other words, our audience will be able to utilize the portal to network with the other portal members, who could be the students or professors of the partnering/interested universities. 2) The Portal will host and maintain a schedule of the forthcoming lectures so that the interested users/members can plan their time in advance and subscribe accordingly. 3) The Portal will relay lectures live in the form of Webcasts to the users. 4) To benefit the users who missed the previous lectures, the Portal will maintain a video database of the lectures. 5) On a scheduled day, the system will send SMS notifications to the subscribers of the lectures.	Report Abuse