K. Vanangamudi
Dr. K. Vanangamudi, Professor (Seed Science and Technology),Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore. He is a Co-principal Investigator for various ICAR NAIP scheme on โDevelopment of e-course materials for B.Sc (Ag) degree programmeโ, Principle Investigator of GOI schemes NIMI on โDevelopment of instructional materials for ITI students in agriculture sectorโ and โDevelopment of instructional materials for COE both BBBT and advance modulesโ. He was the former Dean (Agri), Agricultural College and Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore (March 2006 โ July 2009), former Dean of AP, Agricultural College, TNAU, Kalavai, Vellore (September 2003 โ February 2006), and former Professor and Head of Dept. of Seed Science and Technology, TNAU, CBE 3 (March 2001 โ August 2003). As Dean (Agri) he started three new UG degree programmes: B.Tech in Bioinformatics (2006โ2007), B.Tech in Agricultural Information Technology (2006โ2008) and B.S in Agribusiness Management (2007โ2008). As a faculty Dean of TNAU, Dr. Vanangamudi is possessed with a substantial experience in e-education and therefore he introduced e-learning, e-teaching, e-class, e-registration, e-attendance, e-communication, e-assignment, online examination and e-evaluation for the UG degree programme. This is implemented in 12 UG degrees being offered at 10 constituent and four affiliated colleges.