NITTE Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore

‘What lies before us, what lies behind us are tiny matters when compared to what lies within us’    - Oliver Holmes Wendall The pandemic around us and multiple levels of fear injected into us has unnerved us all, to say the least. What scares us beyond a sensible limit is the way people around us interpret it and talk about it with no holds barred. The electronic media, with multiple channels, has spread the scare worse than the virus itself!  There is so much bombardment and exaggeration just to score a point or a little mileage over the next door neighbour. They seem to go one up to say, ‘I told you so’, ‘I was the first to say so’ and so on.  Well, in the end, what is it we are getting at?  Why are we doing what we are doing? If the ‘business’ is to give the news that would be so much better. Why then the channels bend backwards to give the ‘views’? Well this kind of bombardment or exaggeration can be accepted as part of the bigger system. We cannot really stop the other but we

‘Coursera’ is said to be one of the biggest platforms for online learning, knowledge up-gradation, and student competency building in chosen domains. It is America’s massive open online education dispenser. Two of computer science professors of Stanford University namely Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller made it all possible in the year 2012. Today Coursera is a name to reckon with more than 150 university alliances across the world  and 7000 courses on offer online. Many leading Universities have welcomed ‘Coursera’ offered courses to their campus in their own differentiated and unique way.    In the 9th virtual annual conference held between April 19-21, 2021, Coursera’s, top the ranking committee appreciated the efforts of Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Bangalore for including a   few topical courses among the elective courses of the Institute. NMIT came in for special mention and appreciation in the hands of three distinguished academicians namely Mr. Raghav Gupta, MD of In