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About Me
 From July 2009 to June 2011, I worked as Director, Distance Education, [Institute of Distance and Continuing Education] University of Guyana, Georgetown, Guyana (South America). Now I am back to Indira Gandhi National Open University, India where I am working as Regional Director for its Goa Regional Centre.

I have taught Information Technology, Educational Technology, Educational Research and Statistics, Educational Measurement and Evaluation, Psychodynamics of Mental Health Courses for the B.Ed. and M.Ed. Programmes. I have conducted training programmes for the in- and pre-service teachers on the use of Multimedia in teaching and instruction.

Watch here my video introduction

NEWS TIME


News Time...!

Open Access Week 2010 The OER Foundation has scheduled a number of webinars in celebration of Open Access Week 2010 which will run from 18 to 22 October. Join our community in promoting the adoption and implementation of open access resources to support teaching, learning and research in education. See: http://wikieducator.org/OERF:Open_Access_Week_2010

[George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C. conducts training for Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors]

report
User:Rcsharma/Report

Wiki-Infobox-Help
pl click here

PCF6 Papers
The Sixth Pan- Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF6) was held during 24- 28 November 2010 at The Le-Meridien, Cochin Resort &amp; Convention Centre Kochi, Kerala, India.

The theme of PCF6 was: Access and Success in Learning: Global Development Perspectives. http://wikieducator.org/PCF6

Analysis of Volunteerism in Guyana
[[Media:Validation_Workshop_Presentation_12july2010.pdf|Read the full report here]]

Lets Understand What is WikiEducator?
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Teacher-of-the-Year Award in Guyana
The Ministry of Education, Govt of Guyana announced that outstanding teachers will be honoured and rewarded who, through their dedication and commitment have made exceptional contributions. This will cover all nursery, primary, secondary and practical instructional centres and special schools with full-time staff. Read more here

Issues, challenges and accomplishments in Guyana’s education system
Challenge and controversy are common to Guyana’s education system. Setting aside the sheer magnitude of the challenge of financing education, a condition common to developing countries, Guyana, by committing itself to providing free education from nursery to university, has embraced an additional weighty burden which its fragile economy has simply been unable to carry... Read full article here

OERs 4 Open Schools
Open Educational Resources 4 Open Schools To know more on OER, read it From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dennis Irvine Lecture on 9th April 2010
Read details here

for Online Education in Guyana
http://www.slideshare.net/rc_sharma/wiki-educator-in-guyana

Workshop on E-Learning held on 14 December 2009
The Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, University of Guyana conducted a workshop on 14 December 2009 on E-Learning. The faculty from University of Guyana; Cyril Potter College of Education, Georgetown; teachers of Guyana Technical Institute etc participated in the workshop. ICT in Distance Education, Open Educational Resources, Copy Right issues, Integration of media into e-learning courses etc were the issues discussed.

The Cape Town Open Education Declaration केप टाऊन मुक्त शिक्षा घोषणा
In September 2007, the Open Society Institute and the Shuttleworth Foundation convened a meeting in Cape Town, South Africa to discuss ways to broaden and deepen their open education efforts and to accelerate efforts to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. The Cape Town Open Education Declaration is an outcome of that meeting.

You can read read the Declaration here

Further you can see all those who have joined this movement here

persons from these countries visited this page
Here it is

&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt; in the NORTH of the SOUTH AMERICA....!'''
 Guyana, the only Caribbean country on the landmass of South America



A Brief on the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
 The Institute of Distance and Continuing Education was formerly known as the Department of Extra-mural Studies. The Department of Extra-mural Studies was founded on 5 January 1976, which was later on upgraded to the Institute of Adult and Continuing Education (IACE), and in September 1996, it was renamed the Institute of Distance and Continuing education (IDCE). The Institute is primarily a centre for study and research in Adult Education and provides professional training for teachers of adults and persons who administer or organise adult education programmes. There are also an advisory service and library facilities for adults educators. From 1987, the Institute began offering a Diploma Programme in Occupational health and Safety, with intramural accreditation. In 1992 the Distance Education Programme was launched and in general IDCE assists other institutions and organisations in conducting Distance Education programmes.

The IDCE has the mandate of providing learning opportunities for the adult learners domiciled in the various communities across the length and breadth of Guyana. It offers ODL programmes like a two year programme on Administrative Professional Secretaries Diploma, Business Communication for staff of Guyana and Trinidad Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Company, Project Management, Human Resource Management, Information and Library Technician Training Programme etc. As of now IDCE did not have some full Graduate programmes leading to a degree, we are trying to do it now. The courses currently being done are few weeks courses targeted to develop a certain skill among the participants. For example, in collaboration with Varqua Foundation, the IDCE undertook a "On the Wings of Words" program which enabled young Guyanese to improve their levels of literacy. This collaborative approach which started over twelve years ago has resulted in over six hundred young people being exposed to the rudiments of reading and other aspects of literacy education. The Institute has also been collaborating with Public and Private sector for effective community economic development, some of them are: The Guyana Police Force, the Guyana Library Association, the Guyana Association of Administrative Professionals, the Rotary Club of Georgetown, the Commonwealth Youth Programme and the Guyana Forum for Lifelong Learning etc.

Training Programme for Preparing for Retirement


A Training Programme conducted by Institute of Distance and Continuing Education, Guyana, South America for those who are going to retire. This programme enables them for a "Second Life"!

My Sandbox
/My sandbox/ 

Neil Armstrong left his foot prints on the Moon!

I left my foot prints on the SAND of ATLANTIC OCEAN...!!!!

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video intro
see here video introduction

Some Work

 * Visit my home page.. not updated for some time now :-(
 * My Flickr
 * My Slidespace

Journals of Distance Education

 * Asian Journal of Distance Education

My WikiEd Projects
 Handbook of Open Universities

Notes from my Wikineighbours
Hello Dr.Ramesh Sharma I am so much impressed about the way you handle issues concerning open and Distance Learning and hope to learn a lot more form you. I was looking forward to meeting you in Zambia for the IPYET 2011 Training Workshop but alas! Thank you. --Kafuiaheto 21:46, 26 May 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh,

Thanks for the note on my User page. I am having a problem with setting my name to appear as a link to my user page. Check my page and you'd see that it shows that User:Mallamibro doesn't exist. i can't understand what i am doing wrong. I'll continue trying to see if i ca n fix the problem but i'd appreciate your help. --Ibrahim K. Oyekanmi 10:14, 28 April 2011 (GMT)

Hello Ramesh Sir, myself KSR from Chennai. On our Wiki Educator Graduation Day (That is what you call it), I thank you and your team for guiding me properly and I came without any idea about Wiki Editing skills and during these 10 days, I have learnt many things so that now I am editing wiki pages with much comfort and easiness. Still I want to learn advanced editing skills. If your rules permit, I would like to join another workshop for learning advanced wiki editing skills. I will be in touch with you and warm regards. --Dr. K S Ramakrishnan 17:02, 10 May 2011 (UTC)

Hello Mr.Ramesh,

Thanks for the encouragement on the progress on my user page.

--Shining Star 15:04, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh! I'm finally doing my OER Learning Resource about autism. During your workshop (eL4C46) I didn't have enough time, but as I have my vacations now, I'm trying to do something. Best wishes, --Teromakotero 12:10, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Hello to you,

Thank you for your encouragement. I'm enjoying learning the features of this wiki. It's slightly different than those I have used before. I'm finding the images a bit unstable - lost one yesterday and seem to have lost one today. Is this a common occurrence or is this my error?

--Cheri 15:45, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Ramesh - you asked about the progress on my OER Learning Resources contract project...about 1/2 way there I think. You can view what I have gathered so far on my page.

--Cheri 06:24, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Hello Sir,

Visiting your page after quite some time. So much development and new things. Happy to visit and know more about your activities. Best Regards, --Kalpana Gupte 19:01, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Hello Sir,

I have done some editing on my user page but not quite sure how to make it look like those of the others. I have tried to upload an image to my userpage as you or some other users have, but so far not been able to do so. Kindly guide me how to make my introduction a better one. Thanks a lot and I feel elevated to have you and Patricia as my facilitators. Pulin Bhatt. P.S.: By the way, what is a moodle page?

Sir, Thanks for the information. I joined today for the L4C Online Workshop. raja rao.

Dear Sir, Thanks a lot for being my wiki tutor....Really great encouragement u r giving...Pls suggest how shouId I preceed.... Savitha Harish. Dear Sir, Many Happy returns of the Day. I wish you Very Happy Birthday, good health and long life. with regards, srr.

Dear sir, I am not able to do any progress during the latest workshop due to office work. feel bad and sorry. srr. Dear Sir, I corrected the National Flag. replaced small one with big one. raja rao

Sir, it is selfish to keep BIG Indian National Flag in your info box. please do not take it seriously. you gave me very small one. Yours is excellent. rajarao.

Dear Sir, thanks a lot for the help and information. Now i realised. I can do the kata-pita on sand box, if iam happy i can paste it on main part. Rajarao.

Sir, what ever I practiced in my sand box, can I delete them after understanding the editing process. raja rao.

Hi Ramesh. Thanks for your encouraging note on my page. You mentioned I need to edit Infobox but I'm not sure how to do that. I'll keep looking for how and if you want to send me some clues that would be great. --RobynT 02:33, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Sir, Thanks a lot for your guidance. Credit goes to you for encouragement all the time. wish we were at one place. the Certification will help me to work further and gave me little more confidence to move ahead. --raja rao.

Hi Dear Hamesh: First of all thank you for thouse nice comments in my page! I felt 100 years younger! I have read the learning contract and I have decided to start with something easy. I will make a small project for a TEFL teacher in grade 8th to ask his/her students to comment on their favorite animals and then make a small poem about one of them. In my country, students at this grade have to learn to describe an animal, its main characteristics, its personality traits, its food and the environment where they usually live. Have a nice day:

Álvaro ;--AlvaroRic 11:02, 27 July 2010 (Mexico Central Time)

Sir, I crossed editing of my user page 100 times. it became addiction. sufficient for today. srr.

yes sir it is solved. --raja rao.

Sir, correct file name is: Research Article.jpg. --raja rao.

sir, the photo is in my contributions. Research Award.jpg. file. please see. raja rao. I also added list of publications. srr.

--jennip 03:59, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Hello Ramesh. Thanks for being my tutor and help line during this WikiEducator training course. I am really impressed by your Wiki page. I hope I can eventually produce something like it once I get my head around this very new tool. --RobynT 00:17, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Sir, Thank God. You are not asking like Guru Dronacharya. srr.

Dr. Sharma Sir, Thank you very much for your valuable guidance. It is very nice of you. You are an excellent teacher. raja rao.

Hi Ramesh! You have a beautiful user page! Great to have you as my WikiNeighbour! --Teromakotero 12:51, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh I need your help please! I have managed to get two entries onto the day 4 wiki proposal task, one at point 1 and the other at point 8. It is the first of these that i would like you to delete for me. It is somehow stuck behind an information box, and I have no idea how to edit it out. I do think I have now worked out how to edit, by trial and error. Thanks for your help!! Oh, yes I love your page here - what an inspiration! Thanks.--Deb Stewart 11:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh, wellcome to WikiEducator. I'm your WikiNeighbour. You might be interested to meet more wiki-colleagues. Please let me know if I can be of any help to you. Gladys Gahona.--chela5808 23:13, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

23:40, 25 July 2010 :)

HI Ramesh, thanks for coming into my userpage and checked out my signature. Just a question though: Is one's signature supposed to be linked when it's on one's userpage?--Vilimaka Foliaki 21:40, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh, I am just wondering if you could let me know if I have achieved the Level 2 wiki certificate yet, and if not what else I have to do to complete. Thanks! --Deb Stewart 09:57, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh. I think I need some help please! I just tried to introduce myself on the forum page and didn't quite understand how to add my comments under a new heading and now the whole page format looks rather different from when I started! In the spirit of things, I've tried to have a go, but would appreciate knowing how to do it properly next time. Thanks! --Clairer 19:36, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Thanks Ramesh - I think I've worked it out now! --Claire 08:17, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Hi Ramesh.To begin with let me give you a BIG THANK YOU for your continuous efforts to spread the message of WE community.It's really a wonderful opportunity for me to join you this time.Hope I could tune up my wiki skills and help my students start using the new features.Regards --Abdul 03:32, 1 April 2011 (UTC) |}

Hello Dr. Ramesh, great to be working with you. Under project in development stage there are several countries, and I would like to colour each paint with the country's flag, create cartoon image and signs, please assist me in this.--Seannn9 19:32, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * } Dr. Rameshji, Please help. While trying to insert my photo 0n the We Logo in my user page it disappeared as I forgot to save it. Now instead of the photo the rename is on the logo. I can't insert my picture. Please help.--User:Veena Dhume

Hi Dr.Sharma! Thanks a lot for your inspiration and motivation. I am looking forward to becoming a WikiEducator guru like you. --E.Nalumenya 14:50 26th September,2011. (UTC)