Bindu R Thirumalai

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bindu.thirumalai@nias.res.in
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Bindu Thirumalai is an educator and has earned her PhD (Education) from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad, India.  She has over twenty-five years of experience working across academic, development, government, and corporate sectors.

She is passionate about building teacher capacity at the grassroots level by focusing on technology integration and action research and cultivating meaningful partnerships across academia and government. She applies her diverse and deep experience in academic, development, government, NGO and Corporate technology environments to bring lasting, transformative changes in teacher education. She was Assistant Professor at the premier Tata Institute of Social Science from 2015 to 2024.

 She has led and engaged in research initiatives to drive large-scale interventions focused on teacher education, teaching-learning, curriculum and pedagogy within government education systems. She has deep expertise in course design and development, creating MOOCs for practicing teachers and delivering blended post-graduate certificate programs.  She has implemented state-wide in-service teacher capacity building programs, designed pre-service teacher education curriculum and syllabi and created material to integrate technology with curricula for STEM classroom teaching-learning processes.