The power of online education, and one man’s path to become a world business leader

Ankit Khandelwal’s dream is as simple as it is complex; become a world business leader within 10 to 15 years.
After discovering massive open online courses (MOOCs) and their potential for self development, Ankit designed the ‘envisioning a 21st century global manager’ project after two months of brain-storming in early 2012.
Ankit took online courses in general management (human resources, business strategy etc.) and future trends (urban planning, demographic changes, environmental law and policy, and disaster preparation). He accessed the courses through MIT OpenCourseWare, Open Education Consortium  Open Yale Courses, Open Learning Initiative- Carnegie Mellon University, Copenhagen Business Center and a variety of MOOC platforms including edX, Coursera, NovoEd and Open2study. More...