Ms. Madhur Bhatia

Designation : Academic Officer (Teacher Education)

Department : Academic

Office Phone : 0120-4626943
E-mail : madhurbhatia[at]nios[dot]ac[dot]in, 

Personal Webpage :

Qualification

• M. Sc (Botany), M. Ed, Ph.D. (Education)
• Advanced Diploma in Computer Applications and System Management (DCA)
• Online Certificate in Designing and Facilitating E-Learning, Open Polytechnic, New Zealand

Areas of Interest/Specialization

• Teacher education, Educational Technology, Early Childhood Care and Education, Emotional Intelligence, Curriculum Development, gender issues

Experience

• Academic Officer (Teacher Education), Academic Department, National Institute of Open Schooling since October, 2013-till date.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Shyama Prasad Mukherji College for Women, University of Delhi from March, 2011-May, 2012.
• Visiting Faculty (Education) for B.A. (Prog.) in School of Open Learning (SOL), University of Delhi.
• TGT (Biology) in C.B Ganj Inter College, Bareilly, Govt. of U.P. from December, 2005- January, 2011.

Contribution to NIOS in last one year

• Course coordinator for development of 'Education' as an academic subject at senior secondary level. Review and editing of the material is under progress.
• Course faculty for Course-501-Elementary Education in India: A Socio-Cultural Perspective of Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) programme on MOOCs, SWAYAM, Govt. of India.
• State coordinator of the State of Tripura for smooth conduct of D.El.Ed programme.
• Conducted A-View orientation of resource persons and tutors of D.El.Ed programme for Courses- 501 and 505.
• Conducted orientation programme of stakeholders for smooth conduct of D.El.Ed programme at Agartala, Tripura.
• Prepared orientation video for resource persons for course 501 of D.El.Ed programme.
• Developed and edited videos on growth and development and milestones of development to be broadcast on SWAYAMPRABHA DTH channel.
• Conducted live web radio programmes of one year certificate course in Early Childhood Care and Education and D.El.Ed.
• Conducted live Community Radio Programmes (91.2 MHz) for community orientation.
• Schedule preparation and coordination of standardization of marking scheme of October-November, 2018 examination.
• Member of the Core Committee for Parliamentary questions and replies to letters from MHRD, Govt. of India.
• Core Team Member-Gender Green Teacher (GGT) Programmeto be developed in collaboration with COL, Canada. Participated in three days need analysis workshop held on 18^th -20^th September, 2018 at NIOS Headquarters NOIDA and submitted report of the session.
• Coordinator at NIOS for Course on Child Rights developed by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, Govt. of India.
• Participated and reportteuring of the session in two days 'National Seminar on RTE Act-Review' on 22^nd and 23^rd October,2018 held at  NIOS Headquarters NOIDA.
• Member-Moderation Committee in respect of March-April, 2018 Secondary and Senior Secondary examination.
• Coordination for award nomination of UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education. 
• Prepared content for academic part for ALMANAC, 2019.
• Prepared minutes of the 19^th Meeting of the Academic Council held at NIOS HQs NOIDA.

Awards and Honors

• 'Essential Training Skills: Skills for work' awarded by Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and National Accreditation Board for Education and Training (NABET).
• Awarded UGC-NET, JRF (Education) in June, 2010, University Grant Commission, New Delhi.
• Awarded 'Pratibha Samman' by Akhil Bhartiye Vidhyarthi Parishad.

Publication, if any

• Presented a paper on'Designing and Facilitating E-learning: Enhancing Emotional Intelligence of Teachers', International Conference on 'Digital Technologies in Education', February 3, 2017,Institute of Vocational Studies, GGSIP University, New Delhi.
• Presented a poster on 'Designing Useful Contexts, Meaningful Activities and Assessment in an Online Course: Enhancing EI Skills of Teachers',International Seminar on Skill Training Development through ODeL: Innovations, Entrepreneurship, Employment for Inclusive and Sustainable Livelihoods, March  09-11, 2017,STRIDE, Indira Gandhi National Open University,New Delhi.
• 'Trained teachers in early childhood education: Need of the hour',Navtika Journal of Early Childhood Care and Education,Vol. VII, No. 1, April 2016, ISSN 2348-8824.
• Report of the seminar cum workshop on 'Values for Universal Well Being and Happiness' in Comosa Journal of Open Schooling, Vol. V, No.2, July-December, 2014. ISSN.0976-0407.
• 'Resilience and Emotional Intelligence in Teacher Education Curriculum' in edited book 'Recent Researches in Education', KSK Publishers, Daryaganj, New Delhi, ISBN: 978-81-89983-93-2.
• 'Emotional Intelligence: A Key construct in Positive Teacher Student relationship' Ideal Journal of Education, Vol. III (II), August, 2013, pp: 67-73.ISSN. 2277-8497.
• 'Emotional Intelligence: A Concern in Pedagogy' CENBOSEC, CBSE Quarterly Bulletin, Vol.51, No.3, July-September, 2012.