Invited Talks and Seminars

2021, Guest Speaker in a Five-Day Online Faculty Development Program on Emerging Challenges and Possibilities in Art, Design, Fashion & Animation, jointly organized by School of Fine Arts & School of Fashion Technology, Amity University Kolkata. Design Thinking and Problem Solving – Perspective of Indian Industry and Academia, 3-7 August 2021

2019, Need to augment higher education in Bihar Universities with Massive Online Courses. Patna, Organized jointly by MHRD and Bihar State Government

2018, Story of TEL in India. Leadership Development Programme (LEAP) for Academic Functionaries, IIT Roorkee

2018, NPTEL Online Courses – Impact and Feedback, AIIMS, New Delhi

2012, Design for Social Innovation. PDP Programme, Design Factory, Aalto University, Finland

2010, Deployment and Future Scope of NPTEL initiative, Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow

2009, Art Forms of Mithila: A contextual study, India Design Week, Design Factory, Aalto University, Finland

2015-2019, SWAYAM NPTEL Phase III Workshops: As one of the national coordinators of NPTEL, conducted a series of workshops on generating awareness on NPTEL & SWAYAM initiatives of MHRD, IITs and IISc. NPTEL IIT Kanpur today has 400+ local chapters in the country.

Delivered talks on the following areas: Scope and Deployment of MOOCs in Higher Education through SWAYAM, Case Study: Story of NPTEL, Method for development and running Online Courses, Deployment of e-content and MOOCs to meet the current challenges in higher education etc.

These 36 One/Half Day workshops were conducted in the following institutes

18/07/2015 SWAMI VIVEKANAND TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, CHATTISGARH

03/ 04/2016 RAJASTHAN UNIVERSITY, JAIPUR

16/06/2016 IIT KANPUR

13/02/2017 DEHRADUN ISNTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

14/02/2017 SHRIRAM GROUP OF COLLEGES MUZAFFARNAGAR

01/04/2017 MADAN MOHAN MALVIYA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, GORAKHPUR

08/04/2017 IIT JODHPUR

12/04/2017 ACROPOLIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INDORE

21/04/2017 NIT MIZORAM

26/04/2017 TRIPURA UNIVERSITY

27/04/2017 ASSAM UNIVERSITY SILCHAR

29/04/2017 NERIST, ITANAGAR

31/08/2017 MILLENNIUM GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS BHOPAL

23/09/2017 BCET SAMBA

11/11/2017 P R POTE PATIL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AMRAVATI

25/11/2017 JAIPUR ENGINEERING COLLEGE

23/02/2018 IIT INDORE

25/04/2018 MAYA GROUP OF INSTITUTIONS, DEHRADUN

26/07/2018 MANAV RACHNA UNIVERSITY, FARIDABAD

04/08/2018 ORIENTAL UNIVERSITY INDORE

29/09/2018 IIT KANPUR

17/11/2018 GEETANJALI INSTITUTE OF TECHNICAL STUDIES, UDAIPUR

19/11/2018 GURU NANAK DEV ENGINEERING COLLEGE, LUDHIANA

01/12/2018 ABDUL AHAD AZAD MEMORIAL DEGREE COLLEGE, KASHMIR

02/02/2018 ISLAMIA UNIV OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, KASHMIR

03/02/2018 CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, JAMMU

19/01/2019 IIT KANPUR

07/02/2019 MIZORAM UNIVERSITY

03/03/2019 GLA UNIVERSITY MATHURA

29/05/2019 NORTHEASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY (NEHU), SHILLONG

20/07/2019 RCOEM NAGPUR

03/08/2019 IIT KANPUR

10/08/2019 RITM VARANASI

22/08/2019 TEERTHANKAR MAHAVEER UNIVERSITY MORADABAD

07/09/2019 SANSKRITI UNIVERSITY MATHURA

13/09/2019 PRESTIGE INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY, GWALIOR