Type of site Online education Commercial No | Available in English, Hindi Registration Required | |
Website www.iimb.ernet.in/iimbx Users More than 0.3 million (March 2016) | ||
IIMBx is a MOOC platform where free online courses are offered by the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (also known as IIMB). IIMBx is a member in edX program.
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Functionality
IIMBx follows the weekly learning sequence which consists of a video and learning exercises. There are discussion forums where students post their queries and review the solution from the co-enrollers and teaching assistants. These courses are mostly offered in English and with an intent to reach massive Hindi speaking population, they are transcribed in Hindi. Courses offered by IIMBx have no admission pre-requisite. Most of the courses run over the duration of 4-6 weeks. The passing grade differs for individual MOOC, which is explicitly mentioned as part of the “Grading Policy” for the each MOOCs.
History
The initiative of launching MOOC was taken up by the then Director of IIMB, Sushil Vachani. IIMBx started its journey in August 2014 with five professors onboard including Shankar Venkatagiri, Rahul De, Vasanthi Srinivasan and P.D. Jose.
Courses
IIMBx offer MOOCs on core management topics such as Marketing, Strategy, Accounting, Operations Management, Information Systems, Human Relations, Finance and Statistics and other management topics such as Analytics, Banking and Financial Markets, Information Technology Management, International Business Management and Sustainability.
Faculty Development Program
The Faculty Development Programme at IIMB equips faculty from other universities with the ability to conduct courses offered in MOOC in their classrooms. This program is conducted once or twice in a year, and faculties from other schools are required to register to attend the same.