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(TL)ea(cr)(hn)ing

(TL)ea(cr)(hn)ing The title (TL)ea(cr)(hn)ing is by intention. Without rubbing much of our brain it spells out Teaching and Learning in a single line. Teaching and Learning are two sides of the same coin. Someone not so famous said, can I learn without teaching and can I teach without learning. Guess you learn even more as you teach and you teach only when you learn. Learn anytime, anywhere is the current trend with all those online courses being made available. Initially it was just the digitization of mortar courses and not it is using multimedia to stream the concept. People say that we have moved from a stance where it was bookish and limited to a few to a more open leaning system which is available to almost anyone and most of the times “free”. I still believe in a Guru shishya kind of a setup, where a student served the guru and in return may be he was imparted knowledge. The amount of effort that a student put in, in some sense di