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Dr. Ramesh Sharma is Director of Human Resource Development Centre and a faculty member at Dr B R Ambedkar University Delhi (established by the Government of NCT of Delhi), India, specialising in Instructional Design. He is the Chairperson of the Committee to facilitate adoption of MOOCs for SWAYAM, at the University. 

Earlier he has served as an Associate Professor of Educational Technology and Learning Resources at Wawasan Open University, Malaysia. He is an OER Ambassador for Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation, New Zealand. He mentored the OE4BW-UNESCO Chair courses for  Cooperative Learning Pedagogy (2020), Innovative Pedagogy for Gifted and Slow learners (2021), and Capacity Building of Tea Growers, Adaptable Course Design and Creativity in School Education (2022).

He is an expert in open and distance and technology mediated learning and has served as an International Visiting Professor at the Polytechnic University of The Philippines, Open University System, Manila, Republic of the Philippines; Visiting Professor at Universidade do Estado da Bahia, UNEB, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil;  Visiting Professor at University of Fiji, Fiji;  Commonwealth of Learning as Director of the Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia, New Delhi;   Regional Director of Indira Gandhi National Open University, India, and Director of Distance Education at University of Guyana, Guyana, South America as CFTC expert on behalf of Commonwealth Secretariat, United Kingdom. 

He had been a member of Advisory Group on Human Resources Development for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). While at University of Guyana he also collaborated with UNDP for its Enhanced Public Trust, Security and Inclusion (EPTSI) project, Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO) and United Nations Volunteer (UNV) to develop suitable educational opportunities for communities and youth.

He is editing Asian Journal of Distance Education since 2003 and has been associated with several other peer reviewed journals including SSCI / SCOPUS Journals as Reviewer, Editor and Editorial Advisory Board member in the field of Open and Distance Learning. 

An author/editor of several books and research papers on educational technology, educational multimedia and eLearning, Dr. Sharma is a practitioner promoting Open Educational Resources (OER). He has been a trainer and capacity builder in the field of educational technology, and has supervised doctoral research in the field. He has conducted workshops and evaluation activities for IGNOU, CEMCA, COL, UNCTAD, and Aga Khan Foundation, amongst others.

Fred Mulder Awards 2020: Best Open Education Research Paper 

https://go-gn.net/featured/fred-mulder-awards-2020-the-winners/ 

The GO-GN awards in 2017 to recognise and celebrate GO-GN member and alumni open practices and research in open education. In 2018 we renamed the awards to honour the founder of GO-GN, Professor Fred Mulder. Award submissions are independently judged by an awards committee including the GO-GN team. 

Research Supervisor

• Co-supervisor in PhD program offered by Usha Martin University, Ranchi, India

• Member of the Research Advisory Committee of University of Mumbai 

• Ph.D. Completed (Vardhman Mahaveer Open University, Kota, Rajasthan: topic ‘Electronic Media in Distance Education’)

• Master Degree in Computer Science (N=1) [Area: System & Information (Computer Science)]; and

• M.Ed. Dissertation (N=12) [Areas: Teacher Education and Educational Technology]

Doctoral Research Examiner

• Massey University, New Zealand

• Universidade do Estado da Bahia, UNEB, Brazil 

• University of Mysore, Mysore, India

• The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, Bahawalpur, Pakistan

• Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan

• Netaji Subhas Open University, West Bengal, India

• Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan

• Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan

• University of Education, Lahore, Pakistan

Publications –  Summary

Books = 7 ( + 1 as Advisory Board Member and author for the "Encyclopedia of Distance Learning" (four-volume set - 2005). PA, Hershey: Idea Group Publishing)

Research papers and Articles / Book Chapters = > 160

Editor = Asian Journal of Distance Education   |   Editorial Board = more than 15 (past and present)

UNESCO Publication

Network on Education Quality Monitoring in the Asia-Pacific (NEQMAP) UNESCO. Thematic Review on Formative Assessments and School Based Assessment (SBA) In Times of Emergencies and Crisis, by Jyoti Bawane & Ramesh Sharma, (Jan 2021) https://neqmap.bangkok.unesco.org/resource/neqmap-2020-thematic-review-formative-assessments-and-the-continuity-of-learning-during-emergencies-and-crises/