Dear Friends,
The WikiEducator User Page Expo ("UPE" to its friends) is an ongoing event
to acknowledge WikiEducator user pages that are particularly informative,
innovative, visually appealing, or otherwise just plain clever.
We are very happy to announce that Dr Sanjaya
Mishra<http://wikieducator.org/User:Missan>is the WikiEducator User
Page Expo winner for February 2014. Let's learn
more about him.
WikiEducator UPE Winner - February 2014
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Sanjaya Mishra <http://wikieducator.org/User:Missan> has been associate
with WikiEducator since its early days. He has been involved in lot of
trainings on OER, Open Access, WikiEducator, Open and Distance Learning,
E-Learning etc. Currently he is the Director of Commonwealth Educational
Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA <http://www.cemca.org>), New Delhi. Before
joining CEMCA, he was working as Programme Specialist (ICT in Education,
Science & Culture) at the Knowledge Societies Division, UNESCO, Paris. When
at UNESCO, he facilitated the adoption of open access to scientific
information and research. In addition, he has served the Indira Gandhi
National Open University for over 17 years as an Associate Professor and
Assistant Regional Director to promote democratisation of higher education.
Very recently he received the second Professor G. Ram Reddy Social
Scientist Award 2013 (in a function held on December 17, 2013) at Dr. B. R.
Ambedkar Open University Campus, Hyderabad, India. Professor G. Ram Reddy
Memorial Trust conferred the award in recognition of Dr. Mishra's
contributions to open and distance learning, particularly for promoting the
use of technology in education. The Award is given in the memory of
Professor Reddy, the father of distance education in India, first Vice
President of COL and the first Vice Chancellor of Dr. BRAOU and Indira
Gandhi National Open University.
With a blend of academic and professional qualifications in library and
information science, distance education, television production and training
and development, he has been promoting the use of educational multimedia,
eLearning and use of open educational resources (OER)and open access to
scientific information around the world and, in particular, Asia. During
his service in different capacities at the Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU), amongst many innovative activities and programmes, he
developed the successful OER-based one-year Post-Graduate Diploma in
eLearning. As a staff developer and trainer, Dr. Mishra has received the
ISTD-Vivekanand National Award for Excellence in Human Resource Development
and Training in 2007, and has facilitated over 100 training sessions in
over 12 countries. He has contributed over 200 publications as books,
chapters, journal papers, conference presentations, book reviews and
distance learning materials.
Please join us in congratulating Dr Sanjaya
Mishra<http://wikieducator.org/User:Missan>,
the WikiArtisan, for being the UPE winner for February 2014!
with best wishes,
Dr. Nellie Deutsch <http://wikieducator.org/User:Nelliemuller> and Ramesh
Sharma <http://wikieducator.org/User:Rcsharma>
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