Research work in learning

My doctoral research work from the Dept. of Education, University of Madras, India, involved a comparative study of various learning strategies such as Concept Mapping and Vee Mapping.

Research work in elearning

• Asked by SITE (http://site.aace.org) to review and post my comment on ‘ educational uses of digital fabrication, an emerging area with exciting potential for student learning.’

• Selected for  VIP access of Web 3.0 based Unified Software ‘Museworx’

• Selected as DMSC Governor's Challenge SP 09 Judge organized by Tennessee State University

• Participated and Presented a paper in the International Symposium titled ‘Instructional Designing for the Life Long Learning of the Disadvantaged Learners’ @ www.mkuniversity.org on behalf of c2worlshop (p) Ltd during 25-26 March 2009

• I have created an Interactive Instructional Design using Director, a multi media software. The paper selected for World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications (EDMEDIA) 2005 can be accessed from the following hyperlink: 

             Interactive Instructional Design Using Director : A Multimedia Software

• My presentation of elearning concept through flash, presented at Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference (SITE) 2003 is available at

             Principle of Laser through Flash : A Multimedia Software

• My elearning research in ‘Mobile Learning’ selected for presentation at IADIS International Conference Mobile Learning 2005 is available at

             Mobile Learning through Web Book

My research interests in ELearning / Social Media Learning are:

• Collaborative Educational Tools
• Content Development for Semantic Search
• Curriculum development for Niche Topics
• Design and development of games for educational purposes 
• Educational Technology
• Instructional Design Online / ELearning Courses  
• Intelligent LMS
• Learning Theories
• Online Evaluation for Descriptive Answers
• Role of Intelligent Agents in Online Libraries  
• Role of Learning Theories in Artificial Intelligence
• Utilization of Web 2.0 Technologies for Education