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Professor Pant is
promoting the ideation, development and delivery of educational
products, processes and services for the next generation
learning in the post Internet post WTO world. In keeping with
the needs of the emerging Knowledge Economy, he is exploring the
attributes of quality Knowledge products and the means of
enhancing the productivity of Knowledge workers through the
right education.
Drawing upon his
experience in world class International Institutions and having
taught in various modes of face-to-face, distance learning and
technology enhanced training with over 40 years of experience,
Prof. Pant is now exploring the nature of Institutions which
will be successors to the IITs, the IIMs which were designed as
premier exclusive organizations and the later Open Universities,
to meet the challenges of an inclusive education of high
quality. He is also exploring the change in nature of the
traditional lecture in the class-room to a threaded conversation
between the teacher and learner using multiple modes including
blogging and podcasting.
A Ph.D. in
Computational Physics and with a professional degree in Law,
Prof. Pant has been a practitioner in the fields of Law, IT
enabled education and IT implementation.
Professor Pant is a
former Pro-Vice-Chancellor IGNOU. He has been on the faculty of
IIT, Kanpur, NIT, Allahabad and Visiting Professor University of
Western Ontario, Canada. He has been a visiting scientist to
research centres in Italy, England. Germany, and Sweden and has
delivered invited talks in recent years at International fora at
Botswana, Durban, and Paris, Singapore. Melbourne, Mauritius
etc. He has about 80 papers published in reputed International
Journals.
Professor Pant has
been associated with many educational organizations as members
of committees, such as the NCERT, CBSE, NIOS, NIEPA, CEC, UGC,
AICTE, AIMA and several Universities. He has been closely linked
with the IIT system, having got his Ph.D from IIT, Roorkee,
having been a faculty member at IIT, Kanpur and a member of the
Board of Governors at IIT, Delhi.
With a mission to
create and implement new business opportunities in the area of
knowledge products and services, Prof. Pant has promoted Planet
EDU and later Planet EduMark, with a team of highly experienced
and skilled professionals from Education & Training, Operations,
Marketing, Sales, IT and Finance.
His recent
initiative is the incubation of the CSDLSE (Centre for self
development and life long education ) building on his
experimentation with Mastery learning through Keller Plan while
at IIT, Kanpur and mass based e-learning at IGNOU to create a
blended learning model for life-long education. Creating a
personalized learning experience, catering to differing learning
styles, identifying learning styles. developing ‘learning
metrics’ and enhancing learning rates and empowering learners to
learn to learn are some of the activities to be undertaken at
the Centre. |
