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Prof Gautham More
- Professor Of Practice & Area Director
- Educational Technology
Prof Gautham More, an alumnus of Bangalore University, is a Professor of Practice and Area Director of Educational Technology. With over 36 years of experience in Finance, Technology and ICT Education, he brings to NIIT University a wealth of expertise.
A banker turned education technologist, Prof. More’s passion for education started through several experiments with students in rural Karnataka which involved the use of technology as a tool in learning. From then on, his quest for impacting lives through education led him into various corporate roles in India and Africa.
His tenure at NIIT Ltd was at the Instructional Research & Development Division, then at NIIT Networks and finally NIIT School Learning Solutions. The stint at NIIT was embellished with multiple awards of Excellence that culminated in being a member of the Chairman’s Quality Club when he was Technology Head at School Learning Solutions.
With the intent of touching more young lives with quality education, Prof More moved to RUMI Education which was in the affordable school segment. As General Manager for Technology Initiatives, his solutions won the best Innovation award In Vocational Education & Skills Training at World Education Summit 2011.
His expertise in executing high volume ICT projects was leveraged next by Core Education & Technologies. As Senior Vice President for operations, he ensured that quality computer education was made a reality for more than 5 million students across the country with more than 35000 educators getting trained in ICT.
This capability then extended to the African continent, wherein, as Chief Executive Officer of STPL Global, he leveraged Ed-tech extensively to improve the quality of learning and instruction in schools in Nigeria.
He is currently involved in the Technical and Higher Education domain as well, notably with NIIT University where he is responsible for implementing Pedagogic innovations through an elaborate Learning Engineering framework called the Additive Curriculum. The industry is involved in mentoring students by providing real-industry problems along with the necessary technical tools and insights. This integration of learning and business processes through the Additive Curriculum prepares students to be industry ready.
Area of expertise include:
A banker turned education technologist, Prof. More’s passion for education started through several experiments with students in rural Karnataka which involved the use of technology as a tool in learning. From then on, his quest for impacting lives through education led him into various corporate roles in India and Africa.
His tenure at NIIT Ltd was at the Instructional Research & Development Division, then at NIIT Networks and finally NIIT School Learning Solutions. The stint at NIIT was embellished with multiple awards of Excellence that culminated in being a member of the Chairman’s Quality Club when he was Technology Head at School Learning Solutions.
With the intent of touching more young lives with quality education, Prof More moved to RUMI Education which was in the affordable school segment. As General Manager for Technology Initiatives, his solutions won the best Innovation award In Vocational Education & Skills Training at World Education Summit 2011.
His expertise in executing high volume ICT projects was leveraged next by Core Education & Technologies. As Senior Vice President for operations, he ensured that quality computer education was made a reality for more than 5 million students across the country with more than 35000 educators getting trained in ICT.
This capability then extended to the African continent, wherein, as Chief Executive Officer of STPL Global, he leveraged Ed-tech extensively to improve the quality of learning and instruction in schools in Nigeria.
He is currently involved in the Technical and Higher Education domain as well, notably with NIIT University where he is responsible for implementing Pedagogic innovations through an elaborate Learning Engineering framework called the Additive Curriculum. The industry is involved in mentoring students by providing real-industry problems along with the necessary technical tools and insights. This integration of learning and business processes through the Additive Curriculum prepares students to be industry ready.
Area of expertise include:
- Innovations in ICT Curricula, Ed-tech and change management leading to faster adoption of technology in education.
- Strategic relationship building with Governments, corporates, educators, partner organizations to share Ed-tech vision, provide technology consultancy, define policies, coordinate & execute ICT interventions and provide progress metrics.
- Defining strategies for growth and transforming plans into workable solutions; process re-engineering to ensure excellence in execution of projects, increase profits and reduce costs.
- Ushering cultural change in organizations; mentoring high-performance teams; nurturing next level leaders.
- Innovations in Ed-tech and change management – leading to tech adoption by educators; awards for excellence in Ed-tech; Best Innovation award In Vocational Education & Skills Training at World Education Summit 2011.
Qualifications
- M Tech (Educational Technology)
- B Sc
- Post Graduate Diploma
- Technology Innovation for Sustainable Development, 2020, EPFL, Switzerland
- Professional Certificate in Essentials of Cybersecurity, 2017, University of Washington
- Diploma in Professional Management, 2007, University of Canada West
- Hons Diploma in Systems Management, 1994, NIIT
Experience
- Total: 36 Years
- Industry: 36 Years
- Research: 8 Years
- Teaching: 3 Years
Courses Taught
- Systems Analysis & Design
- Programming Fundamentals of C, C++
- Fundamentals and Advanced Java
- MS SQL Server and MySQL Management
- Unix System Administration
- Visual Basic 5
- Unified Modeling Language (UML)
- Netware Administration – Novell
- LMS & Deployment – Moodle, Cliks
- Open Source CMS Platforms Deployment
- School ERP Systems
Research Area(s)
- Use of Technology in the Teaching/Learning sphere in rural India
- Change Management in Organizations – converting Vision into Realistic goals
- Evolution of the Center of Excellence in Educational Technology – CoEET
Consulting Area(s)
- Technology and implementation consultancy to State Governments in high- volume ICT projects.
- Technology and implementation consultancy to top end Public Schools in ICT integration projects.
- Deployment of Open Source LMS and CMS – Moodle, Drupal, Joomla.
Consultancy
- Technology and implementation consultancy in ICT to State Government of Rivers State, Nigeria.
- Technology and implementation consultancy in ICT to State Governments of Karnataka, Maharashtra, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat.
- Technology and implementation consultancy to top end Public Schools in ICT integration projects to The Scindia School, Gwalior, Yadavindra Public School, Chandigarh, Bangalore International School, Bangalore.
Awards & Recognition
- Award for the best Implementation of ICT Curriculum, Africa.
- Award for the Best Innovation In Vocational Education and Skills Training, World Education Summit 2011.
- President’s Award for the best ICT enabled School of the year 2004.
- Member of Chairman’s Quality Club at NIIT
- Excellerator Award (Excellence Award 3 times consecutively).
Professional Activities & Achievement
- Invited speaker at various educational forums.
- Invited speaker at conferences of CII.
Other Interests
- Cognitive sciences
- Change management
- Alternative medicine
- Music (Jazz, Blues, Instrumental, Vocal)
- Cooking
- Yoga