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Gender Pay Gap: How Can We Achieve Gender Equality?
Friday, 23 October 2020
The average gender pay gap globally is 23%. This means, women earn 77 cents for every dollar men make for work of equal value. For the first time, International Equal Pay Day was observed on September 18, 2020. This day was introduced to highlight the lack of gender equality in the workplace. Despite having the
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Use Virtual Tourism to Plan a Trip Post-COVID
Tuesday, 20 October 2020
COVID-19 has disrupted many economic sectors, hurting businesses and employments alike. However, digitalization has saved the day for economic sectors like education and retail. With education moving to e-learning platforms and e-commerce picking up, these sectors have managed to sail through the pandemic. However, can digitalization save tourism, one of the worst affected by the
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How Does Vocational Training Benefit Students
Thursday, 15 October 2020
Vocational education and training was a highlight of the recently released draft of India’s National Education Policy 2020. In fact, experts suggest that the NEP 2020 draft portrays vocational training and vocational education positively for the first time in decades. The current Indian government aims at integrating vocational education into mainstream education. And this will
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Will AI And Bots Replace Humans in Translation Industry?
Monday, 28 September 2020
How many times have you used Google Translate for translating text in one language to another? And how many times have you laughed aloud or shook your head at the mediocre quality of translation? Well, I have – a good number of times. The usefulness of translation software that uses AI and machine translation cannot be denied. They take a huge load of work off you. However, let us see how AI in translation
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AI in Learning: Will Robots render Human Educators Redundant?
Wednesday, 02 September 2020
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the ways in which we interact with the world. It is slowly fitting into the tiny cervices of our everyday life (via our devices, public transport, ID’s, healthcare, ads, education and more). You must have heard the term IoT (Internet of Things) repeatedly. AI is greatly enhancing efficiency, creating groundbreaking possibilities, a reason for philosophical debate and undeniably shaping our present as well as the future. If not directly, then indirectly most people on
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The Rise and Rise of Edtech
Tuesday, 01 September 2020
In our present age, the use of technology has become inevitable. With widespread adoption, technology can be found almost everywhere. The education sphere is no exception and emergence of new tools facilitate the widespread of education technology, or Edtech. This phenomenon has become more prevalent over the last two decades and is now the reality of millions all
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What are Chatbots in Learning?
Friday, 28 August 2020
Those little boxes that pop up when you land on a website looking for something. We all are used to them now more than ever before. Chatbots have been around since 1966, however, only recently have businesses widely adopted chatbots to ease their customer-facing processes such as customer care and product assistance. These are software
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Intellectual Property in the Era of Open Access
Thursday, 20 August 2020
What is Open Access? Open Access is an international movement that advocates for free and open online access to academic content, such as journals, data, and research. The biggest advantage of open access is that it increases access to knowledge and academic content, gives more visibility to research and increases the reuse of published research
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Education is Evolving: How do Teachers Keep Up?
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Formal education has evolved over the years, and today, it is one of the fundamental rights of a person. With a growing focus on the all-round and holistic development of kids, education is no longer limited to classrooms. More recently, classroom teaching has also become a casualty of COVID-19. While students are expected to adapt
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National Son’s and Daughter’s Day – Skill Them For Better Future
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
August 11, marks National Son’s and Daughter’s Day. With companies going on a marketing overdrive on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, there is quite a buzz on social media every year on these two days, but National Son’s and Daughter’s Day remains lesser-known. In this era of rapid growth and technological disruption, it is essential
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