Anurag - Projects

Projects

By combining my experience in research and capacity development with my passion for education and technology, I design practical and innovative learning experiences that can engage and empower learners in new ways. My expertise includes project strategy and planning, awareness and outreach programs, program communication strategies, monitoring and evaluation processes, partnership building, and designing research studies. I have actively contributed to creating online courses customized to suit a diverse audience, ranging from school students to university students and professionals. These courses cover various themes, including Biology Education Research (BER), Environmental Education, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Digital Literacy, ICT Training, and Media Literacy.

Designing + Development + Deployment

Climate Change: Understand, Reflect, Empathize and Act

The Climate Change course is the first to integrate emotion with cognition. It builds knowledge of key climate change concepts like carbon footprint and international treaties. It focuses on building skills such as self-awareness, emotional regulation, critical inquiry, perspective-taking, and compassion. It is ready to use as a stand-alone course or as an additional resource for teachers and learners to learn about climate change and take behavioral actions for change.

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Biodiversity and Human Well-being

The course enables learners to acquire critical perspectives on biodiversity and human well-being and gain the social and emotional competencies to facilitate biodiversity conservation efforts. Some concepts in focus are natural capital, inclusive wealth, ecosystem services, and dragons of inaction. The course goes beyond promoting a purely rational and conceptual understanding of biodiversity and enables learners to relate to the global issue personally and emotionally, thus inspiring action.

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Media Literacy in the Digital Age

The online course on Media Literacy is self-directed, learner-driven, interactive, and rendered on the UNESCO MGIEP’s digital platform- FramerSpace. By incorporating interactive pedagogies, participants deeply understand media literacy and recognize its significance in our daily lives and society. The course is assessed through reflective questions and practical projects. The practical projects include analyzing and evaluating existing media messages and creating media messages.

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Designing Learner-centric E-learning in STEM Disciplines

This course focuses on learner-centric principles and practices in the design of e-learning in STEM disciplines. Effective strategies and processes are discussed in the course based on research from the learning sciences and educational technology. Course participants explore the application of e-learning design in various STEM topics in K-12 and higher education. The course exposes participants to examples of basic and advanced technologies in designing e-learning.

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Geneticus Investigatio

Solving problems in science domains requires learners to integrate concepts across topics, along with problem-solving and inquiry process skills. The complexity of these concepts and skills becomes manifold at the tertiary undergraduate level and is known to be challenging for learners. To support learners in this process, we designed and developed GI, a technology-enhanced learning environment for semi-structured problems in the context of Mendelian genetics. The pedagogy requires learners to go through inquiry-based reflective learning experiences in the learning environment.

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