Mr Sadaqat Faqih Mulla | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Mr Sadaqat Faqih Mulla

Project Manager
Mumbai Campus,

Administration , Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education

Qualification

B.E.(E&C)-Visvesvaraya Technological University,Karnataka. (2011)

M.A. (Education)-University College London,U.K. (2016)

Contact

sadaqat.mulla[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

Twitter @SadaqatMulla

Telegram https://t.me/SadaqatMulla

GitHub https://github.com/SadaqatMulla

I have been working at the cross-section of the Education, Technology and Development sector in various settings, for more than a decade. With a first hand experience of Indian and British education systems, I have been involved in design, development and integration of educational technology systems, applications and digital educational resources for school and higher education.
Creation, curation and translation of open educational resources (OER) in Indian languages is another area of keen interest and I regularly contribute to such efforts in the OER space.

I teach EdTech and Emerging Technologies for Education courses and supervise research dissertations of MA in Education, BEd-MEd and MA in Education & Technology students at CETE, TISS, Mumbai.

I also work with and project manage the technology team of Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) for design, development and field action research with EdTech solutions and OER in the school education and teacher professional development.

Professional Membership:

Member of EdTech Research Group at CETE, TISS Mumbai
Member of working group WG 3.1 on Informatics and digital technologies in School Education, under Technical Committee 3 of International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
Member of thematic working group TWG-3 of EDUsummIT 2022-23
Member of thematic working group TWG-7 of EDUsummIT 2019

My interests are interdisciplinary including - Learning and Teaching with Technology, Educational Technology (EdTech) solutions, ICT and Education, Open Educational Resources (OER), Design Based Research, Multilingual Resources, Free/Libre Open Source Software, Education and Development. Of late, I have been exploring complex systems and computational social sciences.

Mulla, S., Thirumalai, B., & Ramanathan, A. (2023). State initiatives and innovations in technology enabled content for school education in South Asia: examining aspects of access, equity, inclusion and quality. In Background paper prepared for the Global Education Monitoring Report 2023. Retrieved from UNESCO website: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000386084.locale=en
CETE. (2023). RAP Curation Rubric to Assess the Pedagogical Potential of Open Educational Resources for use on Interactive Flat Panel Devices in Schools. Version 1. Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Dt. 15 Jan 2023. Retrieved from https://tiss.edu/view/6/mumbai-campus/centre-of-excellence-in-teacher-education/publications-blogs
Mulla, S., & Nagarjuna, G. (2022). EdTech as an empowering tool: Designing Digital Learning Environments to extend the Action Space for Learning and foster Digital Agency. Paper presented in World Conference on Computers in Education held during 20-24 August 2022. Hiroshima: Japan.
Prestridge, S., Jacobsen, M., Mulla, S., Paredes, S. G., & Charania, A. (2021). New Alignments for the Digital Age: Insights into Connected Learning. Educational Technology Research and Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-09968-5
Mulla, S., & Nagarjuna, G. (2021). Cultivating learner’s digital agency and extending action space of learning through manipulable microworld environments: lessons from India. Paper presented in Education, Engineering Education and Instruction Technology Conference (EEEITCT’21) held during 22-23 February 2021. Doha: Qatar University.
Co-authored report UNESCO-MGIEP. (2019) Rethinking Pedagogy - Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology in Achieving Quality Education. New Delhi: UNESCO-MGIEP. Retrieved from https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000372786
3a. Mulla, S. (2019). Country Case Study - CLIx India. In Y. Mochizuki & É. Bruillard (Eds.), Rethinking Pedagogy: Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology in Achieving Quality Education (pp. 84–85). New Delhi: UNESCO-MGIEP.
3b. Mulla, S., Denks, L., & Kalantzis, M. (2019). The 8-Affordances Framework for exploring pedagogical possibilities of digital educational resources. In Y. Mochizuki & É. Bruillard (Eds.), Rethinking Pedagogy: Exploring the Potential of Digital Technology in Achieving Quality Education (pp. 76–83). New Delhi: UNESCO-MGIEP.
Mulla, S., Shende, S., Nagarjuna, G. (2019). Including the excluded, connecting the disconnected: lessons from a large scale experiment in India of designing open educational technologies that work for all. Paper presented in OE Global conference held during 20-14 November 2019. Milan: Italy.
Bruillard, É., Sarah Prestridge, Litto, F., Clare Brett, Jacobsen, M., Smith, D. M., … Mulla, S. (2019). Thematic Working Group 7 - Connected Learning: Online Human Interaction and Interaction With Digital Resources. In P. Fisser & M. Phillips (Eds.), EDUSummit2019 - Learners and learning contexts: New alignments for the digital age (pp. 54–61). Retrieved from https://edusummit2019.fse.ulaval.ca/files/edusummit2019_ebook.pdf
Mulla, S. (2019). Digital Education - myths and promises workshop under NITI Ayog's aspirational district scheme at Chatra District Administration, Chatra, Jharkhand.
Mulla, S., Shende, S. and Nagarjuna, G. (2018). Connected learning in disconnected spaces: the CLIx’ experience of designing learning technologies that work for all in TECH2018, Visakhapatnam, India.
Mulla, S. (2018). LMX - Harnessing EdTech to provide Quality Education at Scale (working paper presented at TECHBOOK project consultation, Braunschweig, Germany.
Mulla, S., Aitawdekar, K., KRD, K., & Nagarjuna, G. (2018). Not a walled garden but a Lego board! Experiments, innovations and experiences of CLIxPlatform. In Connected Learning at scale: An International Symposium. Mumbai, India.
Nagarjuna, G., & Mulla, S. (2018). Designing Educational Technologies for Collaborative and Connected Learning at Scale. In Connected Learning at scale: An International Symposium. Mumbai, India.
Mulla, S., Aitawdekar, K., Katkam, R., KRD, K., Bhatia, P., & Nagarjuna, G. (2018). Retrofitting EdTech: driver for innovation or dampener for learning? In CLIx Working Papers. Mumbai, India: CLIx, TISS.
Nagarjuna, G., Mulla, S., Aitawdekar, K., Katkam, R., Bhatia, P., KRD, K., & Bharaswadkar, S. (2018). Using DBR For Design and Development Of Next Generation Digital Learning Platform. In CLIx Working Papers. Mumbai, India: CLIx, TISS.
Nagarjuna, G., & Mulla, S. (2018). Taking NROER forward – from an OER repository to collaborative workspace and course maker, a workshop at Central Institute of Education Technology, National Council for Educational Research and Training, New Delhi, India.
Nagarjuna, G., & Mulla, S. (2018). OER capacity building workshop. State Council for Educational Research and Training. Raipur, India.
Mulla, S. (2016). Education, Inequality and Community: Understanding ‘voluntary tutoring’ – a case study in London. MA dissertation thesis. University College London.
Mulla, S. (2015). Do languages still matter? The Companion. Retrieved from http://thecompanion.in/do-languages-still-matter/

I have worked in collaborative projects with academics, researchers and practitioners in the national and international settings such as NCERT (New Delhi), various SCERTs, HBCSE-TIFR (Mumbai), MIT (Cambridge, USA), UNESCO and UNICEF India.

Name of project	Lead Organization and Collaborators	Timeline
OER Curation for Interactive Flat Panels (IFP) in Schools	TISS, Mumbai & SCERT, Telangana	February-December 2023
UNESCO-GEM Report 2023 background research: State initiatives and innovations in technology enabled content for school education in South Asia: Examining aspects of access, equity, inclusion and quality.	TISS, Mumbai commissioned by Global Education Monitoring Report 2023, UNESCO	April-October 2022
Connected Open Online Learning (COOL) - An Education response during COVID-19 Anchored the OER curation and COOL-OER repository https://clixoer.tiss.edu/cool/oer	TISS, Mumbai (seeded by Tata Trusts and supported by Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya National Missions for teachers and teaching (PMMMNMTT))	March 2020-June2021
Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) Involved in the Design and Development of learning platform, digital interactives and deployment of, 1. clixoer.tiss.edu 2. clixplatform.tiss.edu 3. clixdashboard.tiss.edu	TISS, Mumbai and MIT, Cambridge, USA	2017-present
CG-OER Involved in teacher workshops and curation process to create the repository of open educational resources for schools in Chhattisgarh	SCERT Chhattisgarh, TISS Mumbai and HBCSE-TIFR, Mumbai	2018-2019
Global Literature Review on Digital Educational Resource	UNESCO-MGIEP	2018-2019
https://teachinurdu.org Co-founder and curator of the repository of teaching ideas, theories, practices and resources in Urdu	Springboard Foundation (pro-bono)	2015-present

I teach, EdTech, ICTs & New Media in Education related courses for masters students and teachers professional development. I also supervise research dissertation of MA Education and BEdMEd students.

Regular courses I co-teach in the long term teaching programmes:

1. AS13: ICT & New Media in Education-1 ( 4 credits for MA Education)
2. AS13: ICT & New Media in Education-2 (4 credits for MA Education)
3. ES2: ICT & Education (2 credits for BEd.MEd)
4. PS18: Designing ICT Tools and Resources (2 credits for BEd.MEd)
5. OC11: ICT & Education (5 credits for MA Elementary Education)
6. CBCS Education, Technology and Society (2 credits for all masters programs)
7. EdTech05 Emerging Technologies for Education (2 credits for MA in Education & Technology)

Programme design:

Member core-group which designed and developed the MA in Education & Technology programme.

Online courses for short term programmes on TISSx:

1. Co-developed a MOOC course Active Teaching and Learning using OER as part of TISS - Open University, UK collaboration to explore Digital Badges in teacher professional development programme. April 2021.

2. Co-developed a MOOC course for Technologies for Online Learning in School Education on www.tissx.tiss.edu which was taken by more than 1200+ learners. August 2020.

Guidance and mentoring:

1. Under the MATPD fellowship project mentored teacher educators from South Asian region for action research on active teaching-learning with OER. April-December 2022.

2. Dissertation guidance and supervision for MA Education and BEd-MEd programmes