Phodphad! is an open virtual university that aims to bring the college experience online with more freedom and choice. It collects open courseware from top universities around the world and makes it available for free. Phodphad! also provides an overall university experience through features like clubs, competitions, projects sharing, discussion forums, and social networking tools, in order to help people learn, enrich, and fulfill their passions.

1. An Open Virtual University
Introducing
Phodphad!
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2. Purpose of this Presentation
What? Why? How?
We have answers for all your questions
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3. Phodphad! is an open
virtual university.
Phodphad! comes from the word ‘Phodu’.
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4. What’s Phodphad! all about?
Vision:
To bring the college experience
online ; with much more freedom
and choice‐
thus creating conditions where
peoples’ natural talents can flourish.
Mission:
1. To help people around the world
to learn, enrich and delight.
2. To help them fulfill their dreams
and pursue their passion.
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5. Necessity is the mother of
invention.
Problem is its father.
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6. 1. There is no dearth of talent in our country,
but most of us are deprived of the high quality
of education we deserve.
2. Most of us choose our field of education not
Existing Problems
solely on the basis of interest but to a very
large extent upon other factors like prevalent
social trends or financial considerations. Still
we long to pursue our passion.
3. Students are bound by traditional
universities, discipline, place, schedule. By the
entire system.
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7. How?
More than Idea what matters is execution!
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8. Academics:
Phodphad! makes premium quality education accessible to everyone free of
cost using modern technologies of the web.
One of the ways it does so is by collecting open courseware from universities
all over the world and making it available at a single place.
Also it coordinates with universities which do not offer any open courseware
currently but are willing to do so in the form of video lectures and other
learning resources.
You will get access to lectures from MIT, Stanford, Harvard, IITs and hundreds
of other top universities in the world.
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9. Yeah. You got it right!
Overall Experience of
What about the
the university?
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10. University is not just about lectures!
It also involves
• interaction with friends,
• working in clubs and departments,
• taking part in competitions and contests,
• working for projects,
• sharing your views and ideas on just every topic under the sun, be it
movies or sports or politics or anything else.
Its about the overall experience. Phodphad! brings this complete college
experience online.
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11. Clubs:
The different Clubs of Phodphad! is a
unique feature that helps like‐
minded people connect with each
other.
The club members collaborate and
integrate, share their knowledge and
experience and thus, develop and
pursue their passion.
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12. Competitions and Contests
Different events are help at Phodphad! involving
• Contests:
e.g. Poster design, coding contests, etc.
• Concerts :
e.g. Music, Dance, etc.
• Video conferencing:
e.g. Guest lectures and doubt solving sessions, etc.
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13. Ideas and Projects
At Phodphad!, there is a separate section for ideas and projects!
You can share and develop your ideas and projects.
Other Phodus will help you by participating, collaborating and
suggesting.
These projects will even be sponsored by Phodphad! by partnering with
different companies.
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14. LED Hub
LED hub at Phodphad! is a discussion forum for Phodus to Learn, Enrich
and Delight on different topics like :
• Entrance Corner,
• How Tos,
• Internships And Opportunities,
• Puzzles and Quizzes,
• Tech Stuff,
• Campus Buzz,
• Fun facts ,
• Time Killers, etc.
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15. Other features
At Phodphad!, you also get access to other features like:
• Blogs
• Private Messages
• Status Updates
• Friends
• Chat
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17. Be A Phodu!
Phodphad!
Be A Phodu!
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