IT Expert from UNIMAS to speak at NCODeL2019

Dr. Narayanan Kulathu Ramaiyer, a professor in computer science from Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS), will be one of the key speakers at the National Conference on Open and Distance eLearning (NCODeL 2019). NCODeL 2019 will be held on 26-28 November 2019 at Holiday Inn, Baguio City, Philippines.

Dr. Ramaiyer has served 24 years of his almost three decades in academia as one of the pioneer staff of Faculty of Computer Science and IT in UNIMAS. He is currently the Director of the Institute of Social Informatics and Technological Innovations (ISITI) and Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at UNIMAS. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Graz University of Technology, Austria. He has pioneered efforts in eLearning from heading the Virtual Campus Programme, Centre of Applied Learning and Multimedia, and initiating UNIMAS’ first ever MOOC initiative on IT literacy.

Dr. Ramaiyer is continuing to impact changes at the national and international levels through his work with remote rural communities across the country, strategy shaping taskforce on ICT education, promoting MOOC and currently innovating MOOC technology to serve marginalized rural communities in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. He has been instrumental in the Virtual Campus project and online learning efforts in UNIMAS and has produced blueprints for eLearning for UNIMAS in 2001.

At the national level, he had also been a member of the National IT Council’s (NITC) Strategic Task Force on eLearning from 2000-2001. Furthermore he has obtained registered Intellectual Property and the National and International awards for his role in projects such as eBario project and the e-Toro Indigenous Knowledge Management system, Semantic Clustering Toolkit and the e-Co Outcome-based profiling system.

NCODeL 2019, now on its 6th year, is a venue for discussion and collaboration of both learners and practitioners of distance education. It carries the theme “Quality in Equity. Equity in Quality.” (AJAscan)