Bishop's College must transform into a primarily Online University.
- Turn Classroom Lectures into Live-streaming Web-Casts over Zoom Meeting, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, or even just Facebook, and also into Youtube Videos.
- This should start with at least one Bishop's College professor, say, Dr. Michael Caleb, using basic recording and web-casting / live-streaming gear (an Android Smartphone and a Facebook account), in one of his existing classes, and one (or a small group) of his current on-campus students, who might be incentivized to stay in their dorm and receive the lecture(s) using their laptop or Android tablet / device.
- Please take a look at "Zoom Basics - Using Zoom for Classes and Meetings" -- https://youtu.be/s5VU8cmEnTs.
This looks a great tool to use for Online Classes and meetings. https://zoom.us/ is the product website, with relevant info and download links.
- Ways and technologies to render these sessions more interactive, effective, and the video and audio quality very high, must then be explored and instituted.
- Later, any given lecture series or classroom series, first archived in-house, can be suitably converted into a Playlist of Youtube or LBRY, or Vimeo / Vevo videos.
- These lectures would be available to interested students, and should eventually become the primary means of (faux-classroom) instruction for all students of the college's courses, gradually replacing the physical, on-campus classroom setting almost completely, or completely.
- Physical, on-campus classroom time will ultimately be limited only to special offline interactive seminars, etc., mostly at the graduate level, or for direct testing of any student's learning and aptitude.
- Ways and technologies to test or examine the students over the internet in an interactive fashion must then be explored, finalized and implemented.
- This modality would allow Bishop's College to admit and teach foreign students from other countries, e.g., Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Burma, Malaysia, etc. These students could ultimately become regular fees-paying, international students of Bishop's College, earning their degrees therefrom, while living in foreign countries.
- The same would also apply to domestic Indian students from places far away from Calcutta, who would similarly remotely receive instruction and earn their degrees from Bishop's College.
- The strategy discussed above will cost very little initially. But it will allow Bishop's College to
- Significantly increase its revenue-earning potential in the future.
- Deploy its current premises much more effectively and profitably, and increase its offerings of courses.
- Reach a much larger student population, distributed over a much larger geographic footprint.
- Award degrees to foreign students who are unable to come to Calcutta, India on a long-term Student Visa-based stay.
- Take the Word of God to people and communities who or which would have been otherwise hard to reach.
- A “Director of Online Programs” (?), assisted by a small team of student assistants and faculty-members, will be needed to take ownership of this effort and drive it.
- One potential Calcutta-based party with relevant expertise and experience in creating online course content and a professional-grade online education platform has been identified, and their coordinates appear below.
- Arjun Onkarnath, arjunonkarnath@hotmail.com, +91 98304 45000 – www.Salezart.com.
- This party should be contacted for a demo of what they can do for Bishop's College, and to negotiate the cost and terms of any service they might be able to provide.
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