Dr Preggy Reddy

QUALIFICATIONS

PhD: Information Technology

MTech (Language Practice) Cum Laude (DUT)

BTech: LIS (DUT)

ND: LIS (ML Sultan Technikon)

Completed the “Applied Data Science: An introduction MOOC” – Syracuse University in 2014.

Completed Installing and Configuring Windows 7 Client – Bytes Technology in 2013. Completed the Querying Microsoft SQL 2012 – Bytes Technology in 2014.

WBL Module of the PGDHE (NDP) UKZN – 2007, FCOT –Manipal University – 2015.

BIOGRAPHY

Pregalathan Reddy has been the Blackboard Systems Administrator since 2008-2019 (eleven years). He currently coordinates eLearning Technical Support within CELT which has been using Moodle since 2019. He has worked as Web-based Learning Consultant for a period of two years (2000-2002) and as an Information Officer for three years (2003-2006). He completed his BTech: LIS (2002) and MTech: Language Practice (2014).

He was awarded the Aesop Mobility Scholarship in 2016 and spent 6 months (from November 2016 until May 2017) in Madrid at theUniversity of Rey Juan Carlos, where he completed his proposal.

PUBLICATIONS

Reddy, P. and Pratt, D. D. 2024. A systemic model for evaluating online course design: a critical realist approach. In: Proceedings of 18th International Technology, Education and Development Conference. Valencia, Spain, 4-6 March, 2024. Available: https://library.iated.org/publications/INTED2024 (Accessed 12 March 2024)

Reddy P., and D. Pratt, 2022. Case study of migration from local in-house data centre at the Durban University of Technology to Azure Cloud, 2022 Conference on Information Communications Technology and Society (ICTAS), 2022, pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1109/ICTAS53252.2022.9744660.

Reddy P.,2019. Computerized simulation model for TEL infrastructure. Proceedings of the 10^th International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Communication Networks (IC-ISCN 2019), Mumbai, India, 22-23 February 2019.

Reddy P., 2019. A computerized simulation model to forecast higher education TEL infrastructure: arriving at the simulation development process. Proceedings of the 13^th International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, 11-13^th March 2019.

Reddy P., 2014. A learning object repository for computer assisted language learning in order to provide resources for language learners in schools in KwaZulu-Natal. Durban University of Technology, 2014.

Reddy P., 2012. The development of a language learning object repository (LLOR) for second language teachers in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Proceedings of 5th International Conference of Education Research and Innovation (ICERI 2012), Madrid, Spain, 19-21 November 2012. 5454-5462.