Blended Learning in Higher Education – The need
March 27, 2023
Author: Suresh Raju K.A. Department of Value Edit Programs Chanakya University The pandemic has been a Game Changer in enabling millions of Teachers to learn and use Technology enabled teaching-learning methodologies, in fact, have pushed many Teachers even in remote villages where it would not have penetrated, but for pandemic and lockdown situations. Gen Z
Dr. Sitaram Jindal
Dr. Sitaram Jindal is the Chairman and Managing Director of Jindal Aluminium Ltd. He also holds a doctorate in Naturopathy and established the famous Jindal Nature Institute in Bengaluru. Jindal Aluminium Limited is India’s largest aluminium extrusion company with a legacy spanning 50 years.
Jindal Aluminium Ltd is also a pioneer in renewable energy working in the areas of wind energy and solar energy. Apart from the industrial and naturopathy journey, he has been a giver all his life. His philanthropic initiatives are manifold through the Sitaram Jindal Foundation. It is a charitable organization in Bangalore and was started with the sole objective of helping with the moral and social upliftment of the weaker sections of society. The Foundation was envisioned by Dr. Sitaram Jindal and was instituted in 1969. This charitable trust in Bangalore has worked at setting up several educational institutions, NGOs, and hospitals,
For all his accomplishments, he was recently conferred with the prestigious Padma Bhushan Award by the Government of India.
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Dr. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the Chairman and Managing Director of Biocon Limited, a biotechnology company based in Bengaluru, India. She was awarded the Othmer Gold Medal, for outstanding contributions to the progress of science and chemistry. She is on the Financial Times’ top 50 Women in Business list. She was listed as the 85th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. She was voted Global Indian of the year by Pharma Leaders Magazine in 2012.
Her work in the biotechnology sector has earned her numerous national awards, including the Padma Shri (1989) and the Padma Bhushan (2005) from the Government of India. She was also awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize (2009) for regional growth, the ‘Veuve Clicquot Initiative for Economic Development for Asia’ Award (2007), Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Life Sciences & Healthcare (2002), and ‘Technology Pioneer’ recognition by the World Economic Forum (2002). At the Pharma Leaders’ Pharmaceutical Leadership Summit, she was named ‘Global Indian Woman of the Year’ (2012).
At Biocon, she started a CSR wing, which focuses on the areas of health, education and infrastructure. Her “The Mazumdar-Shaw Medical Foundation” supports Translational Research and the Mazumdar-Shaw Cancer outreach program. She is also the Chairperson of IIM, Bangalore.
She studied Biology and Zoology, graduating from Bangalore University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology and has a Master Brewer certification from Federation University.
Prof. Manjul Bhargava
Prof. Manjul Bhargava is a Canadian-American mathematician of Indian origin known for his contributions to number theory. He currently serves as the R. Brandon Fradd Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and the Stieltjes Professor of Number Theory at Leiden University. He has made several contributions to mathematics, especially to the number theory. He developed several new techniques of counting objects in algebraic number theory which revolutionized the ways in which fundamental arithmetic objects in algebraic number theory are understood. His research has given rise to several exciting applications. Along with number theory he also made important contributions to the representation theory of quadratic forms, to interpolation problems and p-adic analysis, and to the study of ideal class groups of algebraic number fields.
He was given the Clay Research Award in 2005. The same year he also won the Leonard M. and Eleanor B. Blumenthal Award for the Advancement of Research in Pure Mathematics In 2012, Bhargava became the inaugural recipient of the Simons Investigator Award.
In 2014, he was awarded the prestigious Fields Medal “for developing powerful new methods in the geometry of numbers, which he applied to count rings of small rank and to bound the average rank of elliptic curves.” He was honoured with the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of India, in 2015.
Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde
Originating from Nagpur, Maharashtra, Former Justice Sharad Arvind Bobde served as the 47th Chief Justice of India, leaving an indelible mark during his noteworthy three-year tenure. Renowned for his pivotal role in landmark judgments ranging from AADHAR to religious and environmental matters, Justice Bobde has illuminated the legal landscape with his profound wisdom and experience spanning over four decades.
Prof. S. Sadagopan
Prof. S Sadagopan, former director of IIITB, is a graduate of Madras University, India and Purdue University, USA. He has 25+ years of teaching experience at various premier institutes (IIT, IIM etc,) across the country. His research interests include Multi-criteria optimization, Decision theory, Simulation, Operations research, Multimedia and e-Governance. He has authored 7 books, various chapters of the books. He is also a fellow of IEE(UK) and Computer society of India. He serves on boards of Bharat electronics, Neyveli Lignite corporation and various other committee.
Prof Sadgopan consults widely across different industry segments and lectures extensively at Corporations, industry events and various International Universities.
Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan
Prof. Bhushan Patwardhan has over 40-year experience in higher education, scientific research and institutional governance. He is one of the top cited biomedical scientists who is Fellow of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medical Sciences India. Until March 2021, he was Vice Chairman, University Grants Commission, and Chairman additional charge Indian Council of Social Science Research, Government of India. Currently, he is Chairman of the Interdisciplinary R&D Taskforce on Covid-19, and member, advisory committee constituted by the Ministry of AYUSH. He has worked as academic head of Manipal Education Group; Director, Institute of Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine, Bengaluru; Vice Chancellor, Deemed University in Pune, and visiting Professor at Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla. He has worked on Boards of several Universities and member of important national committees of Ministry of AYUSH, Ministry of Education, University Grants Commission, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research, Department of Science & Technology, Department of Biotechnology, Indian Council of Medical Research Central and Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences. He has worked on several policy making committees and Taskforces of National Knowledge Commission, Planning Commission, NITI Aayog, Lancet Citizen’s Commission on Reimagining Indian Health System. He was temporary consultant to the WHO Geneva. He is recipient of many orations and awards including Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel Award 2021, Dr. R.P.Devadas Oration 2020, V K Joag Best Teacher Award 2017, Waldemar Haffkine Oration 2014, Harihar Mukherjee Award 2015, Gopaldas Parikh Award 2015, Sir Ram Nath Chopra Oration 2013, Dr P.K. Devi Oration 2011, Dr C. Dwarkanath Oration 2008 just to mention a few. He has extensively travelled worldwide and delivered invited lectures at many national and international platforms including the United Nations, World Health Organization etc He has authored many books and chapters with reputed publishers. He has received several research grants, has guided 20 PhD students and holds 8 Indian Patents, 2 US Patents with over 9800 citations.