Osmosys® was formed in February 2004 by Dr Vasanthi as its Founder, Director and Principal Associate. Sarawathi Srinvasan has been with Osmosys® since the day of its inception as its Lead Associate. Through Osmosys® we aspire to nurture the creative zeal and passion for teaching that exists in many persons who have been teachers and who, for some reason wish to work in non structured environments in self paced areas of work- be it in development of leaning products, training materials or in teacher training.
The Osmosys® team continues to grow and find expression and fruition to its many years of interest and work in the field of education.
The team represents a unique blend of industry (education) and corporate experience. Osmosys® takes pride in designating itself as a team of knowledge workers dedicated to bringing qualitative improvement to individual and institutional efforts in the K-12 segment.
DR. VASANTHI VASUDEV
Director & Principal Associate
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Director & Principal Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Dr Vasanthi Vasudev is an educationist of long standing repute. Spanning a long career of over 30 years in India and overseas, Dr Vasanthi has acquired multi-dimensional experience in:
- School Management – Principalship
- Teaching, Teacher Development Training & Training products development
- Educational Products & Text-book development
- New generation Pedagogies & ‘Learning’ Specialization
- Academic Quality Systems – development and audit
- Institutional Design, Development and Improvement
- Designing and Implementing Education Research Projects
- Student Counselling - brain based profiling, personalized learning design and career counselling
Vasanthi has an outstanding academic record, with Masters degrees in History and Education as well as a PhD in International Relations. She enjoyed a long and successful stint first as a teacher, having taught both in India and abroad, and later as Principal - Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya Senior Secondary School Chennai.
Under her leadership, the school experienced rapid growth and popularity. During these years, she also worked actively with the Central Board of Secondary Education in curricular innovation in Social Science and has been chief examiner, subject expert and paper setter for AISSE . in 1998, Vasanthi received the Best Principal CBSE Schools award -conferred by the Wisdom International, Chennai.
Vasanthi has an outstanding academic record, with Masters degrees in History and Education as well as a PhD in International Relations. She enjoyed a long and successful stint first as a teacher, having taught both in India and abroad, and later as Principal - Sir Sivaswamy Kalalaya Senior Secondary School Chennai.
Under her leadership, the school experienced rapid growth and popularity. During these years, she also worked actively with the Central Board of Secondary Education in curricular innovation in Social Science and has been chief examiner, subject expert and paper setter for AISSE . in 1998, Vasanthi received the Best Principal CBSE Schools award -conferred by the Wisdom International, Chennai.
Propelled by a desire to expand her horizons and reach out to larger sections of society, she joined a network learning company called IL&FS Education & Technology Service Ltd, where she worked as a Senior Pedagogy Resource. During her stint here, Vasanthi designed distance learning projects and worked on developing the company’s educational consultancy services portfolio.
In 2004, Vasanthi started Osmosys®, a learning company, that has since then grown from strength to strength serving the cause of educators and education.
As a Learning specialist, her area of action research has been Brain Based Learning and she has developed many new–generation products for optimizing brain potential for both children and adults.
Vasanthi is also a Registered QMS Auditor and long with her team members has been working as a Quality Consultant with educational institutions, to develop Academic Quality Management Systems leading to ISO 9001-2000 Certification.
Her subsequent and significant work has been as
- Quality Consultant - Inventure Academy (Bangalore)
- Educational Advisor - The Grove School- Chennai
- Founder & Academic Director- APL Global School (Chennai), affiliated to CIE-UK: design and development of the first personalized learning school in India
- Chief Mentor (Academics) - Everonn School Limited: design and development of the various brands of Everonn schools, for all faculty training and on-going academic support
- Author and training resource - Pearson Longman India: Her ELT series IMAGES, a market leader and front runner in the ELT market, is very popular in prestigious schools countrywide
- Faculty Development programmes: Teacher training for schools across the country on modern new generation pedagogic practices and quality in the classroom.
- Student Counselling – She offers a personalized career counselling model brain orientations, learning and personality styles
With the experience garnered over years in teaching and mentoring roles in the field of education, Dr. Vasanthi has acquired a wide range of industry specific skills, which she continues to share with her fellow educators.
MS. SARASWATHI SRINIVASAN
Lead Associate
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Lead Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Ms. Saraswathi Srinivasan is an educationist with over a 20 years experience in the field of education first as a teacher and then as an education consultant.
She began her career at Vidya Mandir, one of the foremost CBSE Schools in Chennai where she taught English, History and Sociology to the senior school. She also has experience as Center Co-coordinator for CBSE X and XII Examinations and as Examiner for English CBSE X Examinations.
Driven by a growing interest in pedagogy and the need to bring fresh perspectives to the teaching – learning environment she joined IL&FS Education and Technology Services as Manager-Education Services. Her work involved helping educational institutions to bring about integration of technology into the classrooms and empowering the teachers of today with the skills and attitudes necessary to impart to the students core 21st century competencies and the creation of new connective capacities consistent with the emerging global contexts.
In 2004 she joined Dr. Vasanthi Vasudev at Osmosys® as Education Consultant and Senior Associate and has been an integral part of its services since its inception.
With an abiding interest in human psychology, brain based and learner centric teaching learning systems, her areas of specialization include Professional Development for teachers, Learning Products development, Pedagogic Research & Curriculum Development, Whole Brain Development and Multiple Intelligences, Student Profiling and Counselling, and assistance in Institutional design and development.
She has been associated with the following organizations:,
- Pearson Longman India - Text book development (Social Studies), Training Resource (ongoing)
- APL Global School Chennai – Teaching History (IGCSE) and Sociology (A level) Pedagogic Research, Curriculum Development, mentoring teachers in Personalised Learning Design, Counselling and Life Management Lab (life skills)
- Everonn School Limited - Consultant – Special Projects (School & Curriculum Design, Teacher Recruitment and Training, and setting up Academic Quality Monitoring Systems
MS. SUMITHA RAGHAVAN
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Sumitha Raghavan, is an English language and communication trainer, early-childhood education specialist and special educator with over 18 years of work experience. Starting her career as a pre-primary teacher she has also worked with an editorial agency, specializing in corporate newsletters and journals. Passionate about teaching and training, she has worked extensively with expatriates, corporates, teachers and students providing customized programmes in Communicative English and language learning.
As a special needs educator, she has empowered learners with strong communication, cognitive and life skills using methodologies such as ‘Verbal Behaviour Analysis’ and ‘Creative Movement’. She has keen interest in enrichment programmes for developing phonemic awareness, reading and creative writing skills in children. She has also trained them for their Cambridge ESOL examinations.
Sumitha has done book reviews for the Indian Review of Books, published articles and developed resource material for publishers, schools and colleges.
She has been involved in teacher resource material development for Pearson Longman India and is presently a Training Resource for Pearson.
Her other projects include: Training & Consultancy at Everonn School Limited, Soft Skills and English Communication Training at Queen Mary’s College Chennai, and Special Educator- Rasa Centre for Special Needs and We Can Learning Centre.
MS. BEENA MALHOTRA
Senior Associate
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Senior Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
A graduate in Home Science, with a double degree in Education with specialization in English, Social Studies and Science, Beena Malhotra has 18 years of experience in the field of education first as a teacher then as a teacher trainer.
Her stints at Amity International School and the Academy for Personalized Learning, Chennai, have given her exposure to both national and international curriculum. Beena’s expertise lies in pre-primary and primary curriculum development and training teachers in learner centric methodologies.
A keen advocate of Multiple Intelligence, activity based, brain based learning and teaching, she strongly believes that a child’s education is incomplete without the holistic development.
She has extensive experience in training the teachers, especially using the blended model (interactive onsite classrooms and virtual classrooms).
Beena has been involved in developing content for both English and Social studies texts as a freelancer and has also assisted in the development of the Teachers Manual on CCE Assessment for a well known publisher.
MS. BHANU SHANKAR
Associate
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Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
With 18 years of experience with schools in, both national (CBSE) and International Schools (CIE, IB) Bhanu Shankar is a forward thinking educationist who has incorporated contemporary methods of teaching- both as teacher and a trainer for teachers. A firm believer in refresher and skill enhancement courses for teachers, she has boundless stamina for new learning and is always seeking fresh perspectives in the art of learning. Bhanu is particularly interested in the use of Multiple Intelligences approach to holistic learning. Her roles in various capacities included being, IGCSE Coordinator, Humanities Coordinator and subject leader for Geography, and centre examiner for the Class X CBSE examinations.
She is a trained facilitator for International Primary Curriculum ( IPC, UK) and Model United Nations Program of THIMUN ( The Hague International Model United Nations).
She is currently pursuing her doctorate from Switzerland.
MS. LAKSHMI GOPALAN
Associate
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Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Lakshmi has 15 years of experience teaching English at various levels in CBSE Schools in Chennai. Her rich experience includes classroom teaching, developing and implementing training programmes, personalized training to students from national and international boards, life skills training for students and assisting in research projects. She is also fully conversant with the Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation system.
Besides this, she has also been involved in the development of English learning activity books for Aloha India and has been instrumental in bringing out and editing school books for a leading publisher.
MS. MALA BALASHANKAR
Associate
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Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Mala, an M.Sc, M.Phil in Botany, has been in the field of education for more than a decade. She is presently doing her doctorate in Botany. Mala has a deep and abiding passion towards teaching and has worked with great keenness to create innovative and interesting learning experiences for children across grades in subjects like biology, chemistry, environmental science and food studies. She has wide teaching experience having taught students across all grades in both national and international boards.
As the programme leader for the Cambridge International Diploma she also has experience in training teachers for an international curriculum. Mala has also been the in- house training and curriculum resource at APL Global School, where she was in charge of monitoring the quality of lesson plans, assessment papers, activity sheets, worksheets, etc.
She is at present successfully running a pre-school of her own.
MS. GOWRI SWAMINATHAN
Associate
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Associate - Osmosys® Learning Products and Services
Gowri is a result oriented professional teacher with three decades of rich experience in reputed schools across India. Besides active teaching, Gowri is involved in personality and attitude development, and counselling and mentoring.
She also has considerable experience in addressing training needs of the prescribed syllabus,
day-to-day functioning of school and school events management.
A dynamic go-getter with excellent team building skills, she works with enormous zeal to contribute to the field of value driven education.
Our specialisations are:
- psycho-pedagogy- specifically brain based learning
- curriculum design and development
- professional upgradation of teachers,
- school management consultancy services,
- institutional design and development and
- creation of new learning products,