Prof. Prabir Kr. Biswas has 32 years teaching experience in conventional and distance education, around 40 years research experience in Psychology and Education and 8 years administrative experience as Assistant Regional Director, Regional Director (IGNOU Regional Centre, Kolkata) and Director, STRIDE (IGNOU, Hqrs. New Delhi). Besides these he has experience in Psychological testing, and providing Counselling and Therapy services to children, adolescents and adults since 1980s.
He obtained M.A, and Ph.D in Psychology from Calcutta University and Diploma in Distance Education (DDE from
IGNOU.
His Ph.D work “Characteristics of Autonomic Responses in Psychiatric Patients and
Normal Subjects” was evaluated and
appreciated by University of London in 1984. He was Lecturer in Psychology at Pachhunga
University College, North-Eastern Hill University, Aizawl, Mizoram, India for five years (1988-1993).Since
October, 1993 to February, 2020 he has worked with IGNOU in various capacities
as a Lecturer, Assistant Regional Director, Regional Director, Reader and lastly
Professor in Distance Education (since 2007). He was actively involved in
course design and development, programme and course coordination, teacher training
and research, student support services, admission process, academic
administration, academic counselling, guiding PhD/M.Phil Scholars in Distance
Education both national and international, various activities related to Master
of Arts in Distance Education (MADE) and Post Graduate Diploma in Distance
Education (PGDDE) Programme, student
counselling, academic counsellors training, guiding dissertations/ projects
(more than 150), assessment and evaluation,
developing course and training materials, editing of course materials, developing
programme guides and so on. He has, till date, published 2 Books, 25 Book Chapters/
Self-Learning Units in different
programmes (M.A. Education, Vocational Education, Elementary Education,
Inclusive Education, M.A. Distance Education of various
universities and DDEs, more than 50 research papers/articles in
international and national journals, 5 Handbooks, 1 Glossary of Terms used in
Open Distance and E-learning, and several Book Reviews in international journal.
He has also edited more than 130 published research articles in International
and Online journals, 16 Book Reviews and more than 100 Self-Learning Units/ Chapters
(content and format editing). Latest book chapter in “Technology for Efficient Learner Support
Services in Distance Education- Experiences from Developing Countries”, published by Springer Nature Singapore Pvt. Ltd. 2018. His
Handbooks: “Psychological skills for open distance learning- a handbook for
distance teachers, managers and learners”, and “Study skills and psychological
skills- a handbook for the learner workshop” are very popular.
He was the Chief editor of Indian
Journal of Open Learning (International peer reviewed journal) for more than 2
years, and editorial team members and Book review Editor of that journal for another
3 years.
He is the Editor-in-Chief of “Edutech:
e-journal of Education and technology” (online peer reviewed journal) since
2007.
Prof. P.K. Biswas attended various
national and international conferences, presented several research papers and
has visited several countries (46 countries covering 5 continents) for academic
purposes (organising workshops, attachment programmes etc.) and on educational
tour. He has chaired many sessions in national conferences and Webinars organized
by conventional and open universities.
He was the Nodal Officer of Pan-African e-Network Project of IGNOU
(2012-2014). In this project more than 2400 students from 19 different African
countries were studying in 9 Programmes of IGNOU (MBA, MTM, BTS, DAFE, DECE,
DTS, CES, CNCC, and CTS) using Tele-Education services. More than 1400 hours
video conference sessions have been conducted during his tenure with the
African countries (record video conference session was with 24 countries at a
time). He has organized the first conference of the Ambassadors and High
Commissioners of African and Gulf countries in IGNOU, International conference
on Skill development and national conference as well.
Prof. P.K. Biswas has organised,
coordinated and conducted more than 250 training programmes (national and
international workshops, orientation programmes etc.) ranging from 2-days to 15
days each as coordinator/resource person for teachers, academics, course
writers, academic counsellors, administrators, support staffs, students and others in the country and abroad covering a wide
range of topics. He has coordinated and developed 15 days training Manual for
the Academic Counsellors’ of IGNOU.
He was the coordinator of the Direct
to Home (DTH) digital educational TV channel (Number 26, State Open University
Channel) under Swayam Prabha during July 2017 to February, 2020 run by Ministry
of Human Resource Development, Government of India. He has also contributed in
developing online course in SWAYAM Platform
Email: prabir55.biswas@outlook.com
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