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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Core Abilities
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SHRADDHA RAWAT

Learning Design Expert
Gurugram,India

Summary

13 years of experience in the field of learning experience design in digital and face to face settings. Designed and reviewed 13 + state and national level curriculums, courses, assessments, games and training workshops for adults, youth, and adolescents on a variety of themes including digital pedagogy, social and emotional skills, micro-finance, gender, entrepreneurship etc. Pedagogy expert who specializes in converting content to highly engaging learning sequences that facilitates achievement of learning outcomes. Demonstrated expertise in research-based learning design including application of learning theories and review of occupation standards. Likes to facilitate teams to create delightful and empathetic learning designs.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
5
5
Certifications

Work History

Instructional Designer

UNESCO MGIEP
New Delhi, India
10.2019 - Current

Lead the development of a 20 Hour online course for teachers, educators, instructional designers on digital pedagogy skills on UNESCO MGIEP’s LMS (FramerSpace). The Digital Teacher Course.

  • Reviewed international frameworks on digital skills for educators to develop a course outline that aligns with four international standards
  • Onboarded SMEs (Professor from University of Hawaii), Graphic designer, editors in the team
  • Developed research based, engaging multi-modal content for the course by embedding open-source digital tools like genially, prezi, padlet, wordle, google slide.
  • Designed engaging live workshops using tools like padlet, cacoo, jamboard, mindmeister, vevox etc
  • Independently developed automated course assessments aligned to learning outcomes

Course Implementation:

  • Facilitated the course with 500+ teachers and university professors from 25+ countries
  • Developed processes, resources and modules to develop new facilitators to run the course
  • Developed a strategy to run the course with 2,50,000 teachers
  • Initiated partnerships with international companies, teacher training institutes, university professors for greater outreach

Publishing:

  • Part of editorial team of Institute’s flagship publication, The Blue DOT. Edition 12: Reimagining Learning Spaces for Uncertain Times
  • Published an article in the Blue DOT: Unleashing the potential of Digital Learning: FramerSpace and Libre Pedagogy


Freelance Consulting, Jun 2015 – 2019

UNFPA, Aga Khan Foundation, Pravah (Delhi), YP Foundation, IPE Global ++
New Delhi , India
06.2015 - 09.2019
  • Developed learning activities, lesson plans for school-based curriculums on life skills, nutrition, HIV AIDs etc. Drafted and revived learning outcomes, lesson plans and instructions to create a comprehensive facilitators handbook for pan-India level programs.
  • Lead training team towards development of session designs, presentations and instructional manuals on gender, micro finance, and soft skills at Chaitanya-WISE by training them on Instructional design principles and models and giving constructive feedback on session designs
  • Facilitated regional consultation with adolescents and teachers to set curriculum priorities and source real-life case studies as a UNFPA consultant.
  • Developed modules and an assessment framework for an E-learning course on Micro Finance Institutions
  • Designed educational board and card games for adolescents on contraceptives and sexual myths
  • Conducted evaluation of government and NGO lead programs on adolescent health and gender
  • Developed participatory research tools to gain critical insights for program design and trained the team to use the tools. Used User Centered Design (UCD) approach to develop and test program prototypes.

Program Manger, Curriculum and Training

Pravah, Delhi
New Delhi, India
06.2010 - 06.2015
  • Lead the program team that provided training support for a UNFPA program on adolescent development in 5 states of India
  • Managed program budget, design of curriculum, Training of Trainers, program monitoring and evaluation
  • Designed and facilitated trainings on instructional design and facilitation, deep self-awareness, conflict resolution, MBTI etc

Training and Research Associate

Chaitanya
Maharashtra, India
07.2009 - 07.2010
  • Conducted trainings with NGO staff in rural Maharashtra on Project Planning, Strategic Organizational Planning and Proposal Writing
  • Development of course outline and assessment framework for a certificate course on Micro-Finance Institutions and NGO Management in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

Education

Master of Arts - Social Work

Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi University
New Delhi
07.2007 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Hindu College, Delhi University
New Delhi
07.2005 - 07.2007

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
Nainital
03.2003 - 03.2004

Skills

    Instructional Design

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Accomplishments

  • Lead development of a flagship UNESCO course on digital pedagogy for international teacher community
  • Partnered with 5+ companies/institutes to scale the implementation on the course in several countries
  • Reviewed 13+ state and national level curriculums as a senior designer
  • Embedded open source digital tools in the LMS to enhance content representation
  • Built facilitation skills of 150+ trainers and teachers

Certification

Assessing your Learners by Quality Matters

Core Abilities

  • Management of course development team (including SMEs, editors, graphic designers etc)
  • Development of curriculum and assessment outline aligned with national/international standards
  • Content design and development of training modules, learning objects and games
  • Formative and summative assessment design aligned with learning objectives
  • Review and constructive feedback to improve course outlines assessments, content and pedagogy including building capacity of the design team

Timeline

Assessing your Learners by Quality Matters

06-2021

Instructional Designer

UNESCO MGIEP
10.2019 - Current

Instructional Design: Storyboarding by LinkedIn Learning

07-2019

Gamification of Learning by LinkedIn Learning

06-2019

Elearning Essentials: Instructional Design by LinkedIn Learning

03-2019

Learning Experience Design by HT2 Labs

01-2019

Freelance Consulting, Jun 2015 – 2019

UNFPA, Aga Khan Foundation, Pravah (Delhi), YP Foundation, IPE Global ++
06.2015 - 09.2019

Program Manger, Curriculum and Training

Pravah, Delhi
06.2010 - 06.2015

Training and Research Associate

Chaitanya
07.2009 - 07.2010

Master of Arts - Social Work

Delhi School of Social Work, Delhi University
07.2007 - 07.2009

Bachelor of Arts - Sociology

Hindu College, Delhi University
07.2005 - 07.2007

High School Diploma -

Central Board of Secondary Education
03.2003 - 03.2004
SHRADDHA RAWATLearning Design Expert