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Digital Learning India 2008 Conference Agenda
DAY I 29 July 2008
| 8.00 am- 9.30 am |
Registration |
| 9.30 am-11.00 am |
Shri R Chandrashekhar, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India; Chair: Programme Advisory Board, eINDIA 2008
Plenary Address
- Subash Pani, Secretary, Planning Commission, Government of India
- Jainder Singh, Secretary, Department of Information Technology, Ministry of
Communications and Information Technology, Government of India
- Michael Rawding, Vice President, Unlimited Potential Group, Microsoft Corporation
- Praveen Vishakantaiah, President, Intel India
Inaugural Address
- D Purandeswari, Minister of State for Higher Education, Ministry of Human
Resource Development, Government of India
- Vote of Thanks
- Dr Ravi Gupta, Executive Director, CSDMS
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| 11.00am-1.15am |
Inauguration of eINDIA 2008 Exhibition |
| 11.30 am-1.00 pm |
Keynote 1:
Vision for Transforming Education with Technology
Chair: Terry Culver, Executive Director, Global Nomads Group
- Dr V N Rajashekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National OpenUniversity (IGNOU)
- Prof. Deepak Pental, Vice Chancellor, University of Delhi
- Shantanu Prakash, CEO, Educomp Solutions Ltd
- David Mc Bride Sample, Sr Vice President, Global Sales, BLACKBOARD
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| 1.00 pm-2.00 pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 2.00 pm-3.30 pm |
Keynote:2
Leading Change in e-Education: How to Succeed Amid Endless Challenge
Chair: Subhash C Khuntia, JS, Ministry of HRD
- S Regunathan, Advisor, National Knowledge Commission
- Rajiv Katyal, Director- Education, Microsoft India
Presentation
- Joya Chatterjee, Director-Emerging Markets Platform Group,Intel
Presentation
- Capt KJS Brar, CEO, Designmate India
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| 3.30 pm-4.00 pm |
Tea & Coffee Break |
| 4.00 pm-5.30 pm |
| Higher Education Track |
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School Track |
| Session 3: Unleashing the Strength of Universities Through ICTs |
Session 4: Smart Classrooms with ICTs |
| Chair-: Dr. Harsha Vardhan Tiwari, Former Vice Chancellor, Barkatullah University, Bhopal |
Chair: B Anand, Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti, Director, Dept of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of HRD |
- Prof A K Bakhshi, Director, Institute of Life Long Learning, University of Delhi
Presentation
- Aparna N, Marketing Service Manager, Edutech
Presentation
- Prof Sheshasayee, Everonn
- Indresh Chauhan, General Manager Operations, Sify Technologies
Presentation
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- M M Joshi, Asst Commissioner, Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan
Presentation
- Abhinav Dhar, President-K-12 Solutions, Educomp Solutions Ltd
- Nancy Knowlton, CEO, SMART Technologies
Presentation
- Srikanth B Iyer, CEO, Edurite
Presentation
- Amit Gupta, CEO, S Chand
Presentation
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| 4.00pm -5.30pm |
Leadership Technology Forum - (Workshop by Intel) |
DAY II 30 July 2008
| 8.00am-9.00am |
Breakfast / Registration |
| 09.00am-11.00 am |
Session 5: Towards Building a National Policy on ICTs in School Education: Perspectives of States as Implementers
Keynote Address: Shri Arun Kumar Rath, Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt of India
Chair: Subhash Khuntia, Joint Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy, Govt of India
Moderator: Ashish Garg, Programme Director, India, GeSCI
Experts in the Panel
- Dr Chandramohan, Advisor Education, Planning Commission
- Prof Vasudha Kamat, Joint Director, Central Institute of Educational Technology, NCERT
- Prof Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology and Management Academy
- Prof MM Pant, Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU
- Utpal Mallik, Head, Comp Divn, NCERT
- Marmar Mukhopadhyay, Director, Educational Technology & Management Academy
State Representatives in the Panel
- Shambhu Singh, Secretary, School Education, Govt of Manipur
- Anita Karwal, Secretary- Primary Education, Govt of Gujarat
Presentation
- P Bhanumurthy, Director, School Education, Govt of Andhra Pradesh
- Ram Sevak Sharma, Principal Secretary, Govt of Jharkhand
Presentation
- Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Education Department, Chandigarh
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| 11.00 am- 11.30 am |
Tea & Coffee Break |
| 11.30 am-1.00 pm |
Session 6: Meeting the Needs of ICT Skills
Chair: G Narendra Kumar, Secretary, Higher & Tech Edn, Govt Of Delhi
- Sharda Prasad, JS & DG,
DGET N Balagopal, Executive
Chairman of CNRI
- Faraaz Mohiuddin, Instructional
Design Coordinator,
CAP Foundation,
- Jayant S Bhadauria, Head,
Education Solutions India-Adobe
Systems
- Karthik K S, Founder & CEO,
24x7 Learning
- Surabhi Dewra, strategist ,
Founder, The Shiksha
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Session 7: Empowering Educators
Chair: Valsa Williams
- Prof. Mohammad Akhtar Siddiqui, Chairperson, NCTE
Presentation
- Vasudha Kamath, Joint Director, CIET- NCERT
Presentation
- Vivek Sawant, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited
Presentation
- Johnnie Wycliffe Frank Muwanga-Zake, Lecturer, School of Education, University of New England, Australia
Presentation
- Dr Shylaja, Everonn
Presentation
- Ahish Rajpal, Managing Director, iDiscovery
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| 1.00 pm- 2.00 pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 2.00 pm- 3.30 pm |
| Session 8: Policy, Foresight and Innovation for higher learning |
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Session 9: Quality development, quality assurance and quality education |
Chair- Dr V S Ramamurthy, Chairman Board Of Governers, IIT Delhi
- Dr Jyotsna Dikshit & Dr Moumita Das, Joint Director, National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education, IGNOU
Presentation
- Dr. S. Senthilnathan,
Dy. Co-ordinator, UGC-SAP(DRS),
Department of Educational
Technology, Bharathidasan
University, Tamil Nadu
Presentation
- Rahul Bedi, Director-Corporate
Affairs, SA, Intel
- Rohit Kumar, President-Higher
Education, Educomp Solutions Ltd
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Chair: V S Prasad, Former Director, NAAC
Co Chair: Dr R Sreedher, Director, Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA)
- Dr. Kiran Bansal- Professor,
IGNOU
- Anuradha Deshmukh- Head of
programme evaluation and
the quality assurance resource
centre of Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University
- B S Bhatia- Former Direcotr,
DECU-ISRO
- Savithri Singh, Principal,
Acharya Narendra Dev
College, University of Delhi
- Meera Balachandran, Director,
Quality Foundation of India
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| 3.30 pm- 4 .00 pm |
Tea & Coffee Break |
| 4.00pm - 5.30pm |
Technology Demo Session-
Intel (Sunil Pathak, Director Business Ecosystem, Emerging Market Platform Group)
SMART (Terry Wason, Area Manager, SMART Technologies)
Edutech (Lic. Rafael Lami Dozo, International Sales Mnager, Questionmark Corporation) |
| 4.00 pm- 5.30 pm |
Session 10: ICT integration in teaching and learning processes
Moderator: Seema Parihar, Deputy Dean, Students Welfare, University of Delhi
Presentation
- Dr K Kasturirangan, Memebr of Parliament
- Dr Utpal Mallik, Head, Computer Division, NCERT
- Dr Anjalee Prakash, CEO, Learning Links Foundation
- K K Dhawan, Director, Meera Model School
Presentation
- Peter Ormerod, International Business Development Manager, Promethean, UK
Presentation
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| 5.30 pm onwards |
Gala Dinner- eINDIA Leaders' Forum |
DAY III 31 July 2008
| 9.00 am-11.00 am |
Session 11:
Alternative assessment strategies, Innovative approaches in Evaluation
Chair: Madhav Chauhan, CEO, Pratham
- Madan Padaki, Co-Founder & CEO, MeritTrac
Presentation
- Charles B Johnston, VP, Pearson VUE
Presentation
- Suchismita Srinivas, Vice President- Digital Adaptive Learning,
Educational Initiatives
- K Venkateswaran, Country Manager, DELL
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| 11.00am-11.30am |
Tea & Coffee break |
| 11.30 pm-1.00 pm |
| Session 12: Building ICT infrastructure: Flexible integration solutions in a dynamic environment |
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Session 13: Universal Education: Assistive and Learning Designs for All |
Chair: N Ravi Shanker, Joint Secretary, e-Learning Group, DIT
- Dr. Gautam Bose, Deputy Director General
- Seema Parihar, Deputy Dean,
Students Welfare, University of
Delhi
- Kuldeep Nagi Assumption University of Thailand
- Rajesh Malik, Dawson College,
Concordia University, Montreal,
Canada
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Chair: N K Sinha, JS, Technical Education, MHRD
- Puja Goyal, Regional Online Community Coordinator, TakingITGlobal
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- Anshu Rohatgi, Technical Director
& Regional Editor, Informatics
NIC, Lucknow
Presentation
- Archana Rane, CDAC B- Marathi
Tutor, Senior Staff Scientist
Presentation
- Sridhar Iyer, Associate Professor, IIT Bombay
Presentation
- Dr. Stella Samuel, Regional
Consultant of FasTraKids
Presentation
- Paramjeet Kaur Johar, Director,
Designmate
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| 1.00pm -2.00pm |
Networking Lunch |
| 2.00pm -3.30pm |
| Session 14: Teaching and Learning at a Distance |
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Session 15: Innovating for the FUTURE of Education: Technology challenges & leadership insights! |
Chair: Dr V N Rajashekharan Pillai, VC, IGNOU
- M C Pant, Chairman, NIOS
Terry Culver, Executive
Director,Global Nomads Group
- Arvind Patil, Technical Officer,
I I T Bombay
- Ananya Shankar Guha, Jt
Director, Indira Gandhi
National Open University
- Shameema Parveen, Chief
Knowledge Officer, Learning
Solutions, Edutech
- Sachin Torne, Practice Head
Education, Tata Interactive
Systems
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Chair: Randeep Kaur, Learning Advisor, Plan International India
- Pratap Kumar Mohanty, Deputy
Education Advisor,Department of
School Education & Literacy,
Ministry of HRD
- Annie Koshi, Principal, St Mary
School
Presentation
- Kalpana Kapoor, Principal DPS Vasundhara
Presentation
- Nancy Knowlton, CEO, SMART
Girish Prabhu, Director- Research,
Intel
- Soumya Kanti, President-ICT,
Educomp Solutions Ltd
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| 2.00 pm-3.30 pm |
Technology Demo Session
Promethean: Peter Ormerod (International Business Development Manager)
COL: (Easy Now) Dr. Krishnamurthy, Consultant CEMCA
Hitachi: |
| 3.30 pm-4.00pm |
Tea & Coffee break |
| 4.00 pm-6.00 pm |
Valedictory Session |
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