Brief Profile

Dr. Sandhya Kumar

Designation : Deputy Director (Academic)

Department : Academic

Office Phone : 01204626998

E-mail : sandhyakumar[at]nios[dot]ac[dot]in
Personal Webpage :

Qualification

• Ph D (Education), MEd, MSc (Home Science)

Areas of Interest/Specialization

• Curriculum development
•  Instructional design
• Training

Experience

• 25 years (in Academic Department and Regional Centers)

Contribution to NIOS in last one year

• Development of Course "Fibre to Fabric" for education of Handloom Weavers; development of Course "Military History" and Military Studies" for NEPIA; Managing Del Ed operations in Regional Center Patna; development of Manual for Preparing Question Bank; development of Course development Kit; Finalisation of the External Peer to Peer Quality Assurance Audit of BOU-OS.

Awards and Honors

• Distance Education Teacher award 2018

Publication, if any

• Role of Distance Education in Imparting Vocational Education at School level: Proceedings of XI Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities, New Delhi, 2002.
• Skill Upgradation of Primary Teachers through Information Technology ;International Workshop on Information and Communication Technology for Professional Development of Primary Education Personnel February 14-16, 2001, New Delhi, India
• Book Review, OSAC Journal of Open Schooling January- June 2004, Educational Technology of Expanding our Vision (By R.C Krishnamurthy)