BENGALURU, September 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Sunstone Business School is the Pioneer in Problem-based Learning in India and is Offering 1-year PGP to Experienced Working Professionals in India and Internationally
Sunstone Business School (www.sunstone.in) has announced industry webinar series as a part of its open courses. Sunstone aims to bridge the industry academia gap in open courses by enabling lot of industry professionals to interact with open course participants. This will not only integrate open courses with industry and make it more relevant by building on industry knowledge, but also enable open course participants to network with lot of senior industry professionals.
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The first webinar series is on "Understanding opportunities in internet businesses" on 14 Sept and will be hosted by Anupam Rastogi, Principal at Nokia Growth Partners, leading venture capital investor focused on growth stage companies in the mobile, internet, media and technology industries, with $600M under management and offices in Silicon Valley, Europe, China and India.
Sunstone Open courses were launched in December last year with the aim of providing continuous learning platform for working professionals, and enabling them to learn by collaborative problem solving. More than 1,000 professionals enrol every month to learn and broaden their business knowledge. "We have received several requests from open course participants to provide them an opportunity to also interact with industry leaders and learn through their experiences. Through these industry webinars, we aim to make open courses more industry relevant by creating a platform for professionals to learn from the industry leaders." said Megha Khatri - Program Manager, Sunstone Business School.
Sunstone Open courses will be the first MOOC in the world to integrate industry connect and networking in delivery for open course participants. "Our aim at Sunstone is to enable our students to widen their exposure, and help them find new career opportunities. Our courses are designed in a way that enables participants to uncover the concepts by collaboratively solving a problem. These courses help professionals to come out of their comfort zone and explore newer areas of interest." said Rajul Garg, Director, Sunstone Business School.
"I personally attended two open courses of Sunstone and they were simply awesome in overall experience, extremely down to ground level reality and connecting the dots between the industry and academia. I personally feel confident that Sunstone is going to add tremendous value to people, industry and academia in time to come." said Rajeev, an engineer at an MNC and an open course participant. Sunstone open courses continue to innovate with new courses, faculties, and pedagogy to make learning fun and applicable in business. These industry webinars will add to improving the industry relevance in the open courses.
The first webinar is focused on building understanding of internet businesses and career opportunities it offers in India. To know more and enrol visit:
http://opencourses.sunstone.in/open-courses/webinar-series-session-1/#sthash.8qX3g6c5.dpbs
About Sunstone Business School
Sunstone Business School (www.sunstone.in) is the leading specialized management school for working professionals in technology industry. Sunstone's 1-Year Post Graduate Program in Management has gained recognition as a premier management program accepted by the industry. The school's problem based pedagogy offers students a robust grounding in business strategies and implementation, and provides opportunities to transition into business roles.
To know more about Sunstone PGPM please visit: http://sunstone.in/management-program/sunstone-business-school/program-details/
To know more about Open Courses, visit: http://opencourses.sunstone.in/
For more info, write to [email protected]
Primary Media Contact : Megha Khatri, [email protected], 91-8800393805
Secondary Media Contact : Dinesh Singh, [email protected], 91-9871743222
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