Ankit Khandelwal | I am from India and a master’s graduate in Chemical engineering from Technical University of Denmark. From May 2012 to June 2014, I worked on my ‘Envisioning 21st century global manager’ project. It was my own invented project, drafted after careful analysis of my interests, future market trends and required skills set to become a global manager/leader in the 21st century. As part of this project, I have taken courses from MIT-OCW (Open Courseware), OEC (Open Education Consortium), OYC (Open Yale Courses), OLI-CMU (Open Learning Initiative- Carnegie Mellon University), as well as from other organizations and MOOC providers (WTO, Copenhagen Business Center, Alison, Coursera, edX, NovoEd, Open2study). Over the past two years, this was my full time work, comprising 20+ courses from different universities (covering general management disciplines as well as interdisciplinary aspects such as trade negotiations, urban planning, public policy, environmental law, functioning of non governmental organizations and EU, design thinking, disaster preparedness, and self-study in three foreign languages, etc.). I have extensively studied newspapers from different world regions to get regular updates on business and market trends while expanding my networks through projects and other outreach. Equally important has been my study of different cultures to grasp local social and political characteristics in my effort to prepare myself for negotiating/working in a multicultural global environment. Combining with my excellent education profile in Chemical engineering, years of participation in extra-curricular activities and carefully developed managerial skills, today I possess to become a true interdisciplinary person ready to work on complex and challenging problems of the business world. LinkedIn: www.in.linkedin.com/in/satyasampurna Facebook: www.facebook.com/writerankit Twitter: @enlighting Website: www.ankitkhandelwal.in
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Hi Brylie,
Thanks for the comment. I somehow did not understand 'commercial liberties' term in your comment, can you clarify it?
Well, let's talk about the OpenCourseWare material itself. How many of the people in this world know about it? Hardly a fraction of the people, so the usage is very limited despite being open to the public. One of the problem OCW courses faced is the lack of interaction with learners. MOOC's is actually fulfilling this gap and thus have an ability to be more successful in future.
But, we are in very early stage of MOOC's and I believe, once they get mature and more and more people will become aware of them, they will be able to accomplish their tasks.
Did I answer your second question?