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Savithri Singh
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Date & Time : 11, October 2008 12:52
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| Employer: | Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi | ||
| Other roles: | Curriculum, syllabus and textbook developer for School Science, Curriculum and syllabi development undergraduate courses, Delhi university; development of elearn materials for University and NCERT | ||
| Nationality: | Indian | ||
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Profile
My name is Savithri Singh . I am the Principal of Acharya Narendra Dev College, an Undergraduate college of the University of Delhi with over 30 years of total teaching experience. I am a trained Botanist, but over time my interests have diversified – issues on women, environment, science education - curriculum, syllabus - and access to education specially concern me. I strongly believe in free access to educational content and in collaborative learning not only among peers but also between a student and a teacher. Probably due to my long association with the Centre for Science Education Communication, University of Delhi, I like to introduce myself as a ‘science educationist’. Besides my adminstrative responsibilities, I spent a lot of time with curriculum and syllabus development at the school and University levels and have developed materials for School Science at both primary and senior levels. I am now busy developing elearning content materials at school and college levels. I have been using the Wikieducator for collaborative development of materials in a project involving IGNOU, INBAR, COL, CIBART and ANDC.
My current passion is to encourage research by faculty and promote workshops for and experiment-based research projects by undergraduate students’ [[1]]. I would like ensure that students get opportunities to work with the best of tools available thus gaining valuable hands-on experience. My vision is to make my college be identified as a Centre for excellence in research in the sciences.
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About Myself
- Member National Focus Group on Teaching of Science, [Position paper]
- Member,National Knowledge Commission – Working group on Science and Maths
- Member, CEMCA India Core team on Quality Assurance in Multimedia Learning Materials
- B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D in Botany
- Earlier UGC Research Scientist (1988 - 92)
- Conducted two research projects (one from UGC and the other from ICAR)
- Reader, Deen Dayal Upadhyay College, Delhi University, 1992-2005
- Fellow at the International Rice Research Institute, Phillippines, 1994-95
- Fellow, Centre for Science Education and Communicarion, University of Delhi 2-3-2005
- Principal, Acharya Narendra Dev College wef November 2005
- Experience in Developing Undergraduate curriculum and syllabi
- Experience in Developing curriculum, syllabus and textbooks for school science
At present involved in
- Bamboo and Rattan project
- Developing resources for undergraduate courses on WE by my college [2]
- Pilot elearn project of Delhi University
- Elearn project of NCERT[3]
Attended Wikimania 07 at Taiwan, 2007
Presented a Paper at PCF5, London 2008
Presentation
- Experiences with Wikieducatormade at the Conference on 'elearning in teacher education' held at University of Delhi, February 2007
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