IIMB Online Courses

Updated on: Friday, June 12, 2015

You can study IIMB online courses on statistics, IT and operations management from top professors of IIM-Bangalore (IIMB) by sitting at home. IIMB will offer two Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) free from July; one more will start in August and another in October. The registration for three of these short-term courses has begun.

IIMB is the first Indian Institute of Management to tie up with edX, a MOOC provider founded by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to offer online courses. 10 IIM-B professors have signed up to design and teach IIMB Online Courses. The plan is to increase the number of courses to eight by December and 10 by April, 2016.

"The delivery of education, while radically different today, is still limited. We cannot reach a sizeable population through real estate-based education” said, IIM-B director Sushil Vachani. Vachani also said there are plans to earn revenue through executive programmes for corporates. Designing and offering IIMB Online Courses costs the institute Rs 18 lakh. Vachani also did not rule out tying up with other IIMs and IITs to provide more courses. IIMB is working on courses in vernacular languages, beginning with Hindi and eventually in Kannada, Bengali and Tamil.

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