Participation in Conferences, Seminars and Workshops...

National

• Attended 7 national Seminars in Lib. & Inf. Sc. and Distance Education
• Organized the Annual Conference of Indian Distance Education Association (IDEA) in April 2000. Responsible as Joint Secretary for the conference.
• Participated in 2 workshops in Lib. & Inf. Sc.
• Computer Application for Research organized by Institute of Advanced Studies in Education, Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, India
• Internet in Education organized by The Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for the Asia.
• "Best Practices in Open and Distance Learning" organized by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad from 24-25 August 2002.

• IDEA 2007 Conferecne at Directorate of Distance and Continuing Education, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar from 24-26 December 2007.

• National Conference on Choice and Use of ICTs in ODL: Impacts, Strategies and Future on 29-30 March 2007 at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad.

International

• Attended 2 International Conferences in Lib. & Inf. Sc.
• Participated in the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia, Forum 1999 at Geelong, Australia from 27th to 30th September 1999
• ICDE Asian Regional Conference on "Open and Distance Learning in the new millennium" held at New Delhi from 3-5 November 2000.
• 2nd Improving Training Quality through Peer Learning and Distance Mentoring organized by World Bank Institute, University of Illinois, and Asian Institute of Technology at Bangkok, Thailand (14th to 30th June 1999) and Penang, Malaysia (17th to 22nd January 2000).
• 1st International workshop on Interactive Learning Technologies at Singapore Polytechnic, Singapore from 21st to 30th September 2000.
• International Workshop on "Information and Communication Technology for Professional Development of Primary Education Personnel" held at New Delhi from, 14-16 February 2001.
• XV Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities on "Access and Equity: Challenges for Open and Distance Learning" held at New Delhi from 21-23 February 2002.
• 2nd Pan-Commonwealth Conference on Open Learning held at Durban, South Africa from 28th July to 3rd August 2002.
• Ist International Conference on Online Learning (Vidyakash 2002) at NCST, Mumbai in December 2002 and delivered a lecture on "Future of e-Learning".
• International Conference on Digital Libraries organized by The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi from 24-27 February 2004.
• India-UK Conference on "Information & Communication Technology (ICT) in Education & Training" organized by the British Council, New Delhi from 14-15 February 2005.
• ICDE International Conference on "Open and Distance Education in the Global Environment: Opportunities for Collaboration", 18-23 November 2005, New Delhi.
• Invited Speaker at the E-Learn 2008, Las Vegas, USA on 17^th November 2008 to speak on “E-Learning in India”.
• Pan-Commonwealth Forum 5 organised by the Commonwealth of Learning at at University of London, London from 14-17 July 2008.