Director of Quality Enhancement and Evaluation Services
Associate Professor Som Naidu, PhD
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Bio
Educational qualifications
Dr. Naidu possesses undergraduate qualifications in Education from Waikato in New Zealand and graduate qualifications in Educational Technology from Montreal, Canada. His career in the enhancement of teaching and learning quality dates back to the early 1980s. Since then he has worked in various roles in this field in the South Pacific Islands, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom and the USA.
From 1997-October 2008, Dr. Naidu served as Associate Professor of Educational Technology and Multimedia Education at the University of Melbourne and prior to that, from 1992-1998, he was a Senior Lecturer in Instructional Design and Technology at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia.
Research and scholarly interests
Dr. Naidu’s research interest is in the design of learning and teaching experiences in technology enhanced educational environments. His publications in this area include several books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers.
Dr. Naidu has been Executive Editor of the journal Distance Education since 1997 [http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01587919.html], and along with serving on the editorial advisory boards of several related journals in the field, he is also co-series editor of the Routledge Book Series on Open and Flexible Learning, which is also published by the Taylor and Francis Group [http://www.routledge.com/education].
Dr. Naidu’s professional consultancies include numerous curriculum development projects in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Singapore. Many of these projects are being sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning (www.col.org). Prominent among these include the Master of Arts in Teacher Education program at the Open University of Sri Lanka, the Bachelor of e-Teacher Education program for a consortium of Universities in the State of Maharastra, India, and the Master of Education program at the Research Institute of Education, Mysore, India.