Director (Online Education)
Dr. Manoranjan Pon. Ram
Dr. Manoranjan Pon. Ram is an eminent professional and educationist who has been modernizing and revitalizing the digital facet of higher education. In his career span of over 24 years, he has been associated with various government universities PAN India projects, to develop LMS compatible Interactive learning audio-visual materials, student engagement strategies, online assessment and content delivery system. He is an evangelist of Flipped Learning pedagogy and has done extensive research on Flipped Classroom model and Blended mode of learning.
Author is another adjective used for this former member of editorial boards of various leading journals who has eight edited books on Management and IT to his credit.
On the educational front, Dr. Manoranjan Pon. Ram has achieved diverse academic qualifications such as Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Post-Graduation in Management with a doctorate in E-Commerce makes a strategic combination of Management and Information Technology. He has received the prestigious awards such as "Rastriya Gaurav Award", “Certificate of Excellence” from honorable Dr. Bhima Narain Singh - former Governor of Tamil Nadu & Assam for meritorious service in Management and IT Education and “Udyog Shiksha Sahyog Puruskar”.
Currently, being the Director - Online Education, he is responsible for strategizing the entire process of academic content development, delivery, stakeholders’ engagement, assessment, support and quality.
He has been avidly propagating the use of digital platforms for doing business and education delivery among corporate executives and academicians through various management & faculty development programs, by giving talks at conferences and seminars. He has given notable contribution in the development and delivery of MOOC. Presently, he is involved in the research of integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques with teaching-learning methodology for online Higher Education.
