Professional Development and Capacity Building of Teacher Educators: Through ICT - Paperback

by Vinod Kumar Kanvaria (Author)

This report-cum-monograph is for the project titled Professional Development and Capacity Building of Teacher Educators (through ICT) sponsored by MHRD of Government of India. The title has significance with respect to its need, importance and activities held. The current report is for the period February, 2014 - March, 2015. The project coordinator and chief investigator is Mr. Vinod Kumar Kanvaria. He was assisted by projects assistant Mr. B. S. Rawat. This project gave hands on experience to participants, who participated and came from different parts of the country. This equipped them with professional development and capacity building of themselves for learning, teaching, evaluation, paper writing, etc. by using ICT. Rationale of the project suits to the need of the hour in this ICT era. The project was spread over two academic years. It began in session 2013-14 and completed in 2014-15. A National level Workshop was held in the second phase, which was a great success. Schedule for this workshop was spread over five days and was highly dense to give participants maximum possible opportunity to accelerate in almost all the areas of education for professional development and capacity building through hands on experience and exposure to the best available resources and the team of possibly the best of experts available in this field. As a whole, this project was a great success to achieve its objectives and rationale.

Author Biography

Vinod Kumar Kanvaria is currently associated with Department of Education, University of Delhi (India), which is popularly known as Central Institute of Education. He has a teaching and research experience of more than twelve years from Secondary School level to University level, including Govt of NCT of Delhi, NCERT and University of Delhi. His research interest areas are educational technology, mathematics, pedagogy of mathematics, experimental education, measurement and evaluation and ICT and its use in education. He is holding JRF award of UGC in Education and Population Studies and holds CSIR-NET in Mathematical Sciences. He has presented a number of research papers in national seminars and conferences. His numbers of research papers have been published in the national and international journals. He had been associated with developing the semesterised curriculum of the four year integrated B.Sc. B.Ed. of Barkatullah University, Bhopal and the draft curriculum of the two year B.Ed. programme of University of Delhi. He has been associated as a resource person with a number of programmes especially of Distance Education Programme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan (IGNOU and MHRD, Govt. of India), NCERT, New Delhi, RIE, Bhubaneswar (Odisha) and SCERT, Delhi. His single authored book 'Developing a Standardized Achievement Test: VTAT' and co-authored book 'Evaluating a Textbook: A Case of Class IX Mathematics' have been published by LAP, Germany and VDM, Germany, respectively. He is the member, author team of 'Package on ICT-Pedagogy Integration for Teacher-Educators' and 'Package on Open Education Resources for Teacher-Educators' published by RIE (NCERT) Bhubaneswar and the member, author group of 'CCE Manual for Class VIII Students' published by SCERT, DELHI, and 'Textbook on Pedagogy of Mathematics' for two year B.Ed. course of NCERT, New Delhi. He has been a member of review team for the Hindi version of the book, 'Exemplar Problems in Mathematics' for Class X of NCERT, New Delhi and 'Package on ICT-Pedagogy Integration for Teachers' of RIE (NCERT), Bhubaneswar. He is member, editorial board of Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology and member, reviewer panel in a number of international journals. He is member of several academic associations including IATE, AIATE, AIAER, ISOC, AMTI and AITEA. Moreover the author has a privilege for acting as a resource person in several national seminars, conferences and workshops across the India.