Nilsa Sreevalsan

MICROBLOG A microblog is a type of blog in which users can post small pieces of digital content like pictures, video or audio on the Internet. These posts, called microposts, are immediately available to a small community or public. It differs from a blog due to its smaller content. Micoblogging is highly popular among users due to its portability and immediacy. Microblogs are incorporated in different websites. Most microblog platforms require users to log in, although some allow social login. In a microblog, the posts are brief and are often restricted by number of characters. Most often, the entries in a microblog are one or two sentences, image or video links or a link to an article. The posts can be received or sent using different computing devices, such as smartphones. One of the most popular microblogging sites on the Internet is Twitter. Education is a comprehensive term used to describe the learning activities that involve individuals of all age groups from childr...

ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION Achievement motivation is the desire to do better, to achieve unique accomplishment, to compete with a standard of excellence, and to involve oneself with long term achievement goals. It is the desire to accomplish difficult tasks and meet standards of excellence.      Achievement motivation is a person’s orientation to strive for task success, persist in the face of failure, and experience the pride in accomplishment. Achievement motivation in sport is commonly called competitiveness. Competitiveness is a disposition to strive for satisfaction when making comparisons with some standard of excellence in the presence of evaluative others. These ideas are of great importance because they give us an understanding of why certain individuals seem so motivated and others just seem to go with the flow. DEFINITIONS OF ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION Atkinson and Feather (1966): Achievement Motivation is a combination of two personality variabl...

INSTRUCTIONAL MODULES   Modular teaching is one of the most widespread and recognizes teaching learning techniques in United States, Australia and many other Western countries including Asian region. Modular is used in all most all subject like natural science, especially in biology and medical education and even in social sciences as well as in computers education. All kinds of subjects are being taught through modules. It is a recent development based on programmed learning; a well established and universally recognized phenomenon. It considering the individual differences among the learners which necessitate the planning for adoption of the most appropriate teaching techniques in order to help the individual grow and develop at his/her own pace.       DEFINITION ⇨ "Module is a unit of work in a course of instruction that is virtually self-contained and a method of teaching that is based on the building up skills and knowledge is discrete unit." ...