Santosh Panda

About

Santosh Panda, PhD in Education and Fulbright Post-doctorate, with BA (Eco Major); MA and MPhil and PhD in Education; Certificate in Ed TV from BBC, UK; and Certificate in Online Teaching from University of Maryland, USA. After obtaining PhD, he started university teaching in 1984 at Kurukshetra University, Haryana; and till date has 35 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at universities.

In the past, he has been:
.National Fellow, National Institite of Educational Planning and Administration, Government of India.
. Professor of Distance Education and Director at the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), India.
• Chairperson, National Council for Teacher Education, a statutory national regulator of Government of India, regulating about 19,000 Teacher Education institutions in the country.
• Senior Fulbright Scholar, Post-Doctoral, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.
• Director, the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Delhi, representing now about 950 universities.
• Director, Centre for Flexible & Distance Learning, the University of South Pacific, Fiji.
• Founding Director, Inter-University Consortium for ICT (IUC-TEFED), IGNOU, Delhi.
• Visiting Professor at: University of London (UK), Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), University of New Mexico (USA), Beijing Normal University (China), and University of Guadalajara (Mexico).
• Adjunct Professor at: University of Maryland (USA).

He keeps interest and consults in areas of: teacher education; distance education and online learning/ OERs/ MOOCs; staff development; higher education (CPD, financing and costing, accreditation and quality assurance); program evaluation; and open schooling.

Employment

• National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration Research, Professional Development, Policy
  2025 - 2025
• Indira Gandhi National Open University Professor
  1997 - 2024

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

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Publications (77)

• An integrative systematic review analysis of research on technology-enabled personalized learning and self-regulated learning
  Smart Learning Environments 2026 DOI: 10.1186/s40561-025-00428-8
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• Editorial Quality ODL Provision: Stakeholder Perspectives
  Journal of Learning for Development 2026 DOI: 10.56059/jl4d.v13i1.2892
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• Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education: Design, Development, and Delivery
  Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education Design Development and Delivery 2025 DOI: 10.1007/9789819607228
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• Open universities: Quo Vadis?
  Handbook of Open Universities Around the World 2025 DOI: 10.4324/9781003478195-63
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• Introduction
  Handbook of Open Universities Around the World 2025
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• Innovations in Blended Learning: Lessons and Best Practices
  Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education Design Development and Delivery 2025 DOI: 10.1007/9789819607228_12
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• Innovations in Blended Learning: Lessons and Best Practices
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0722-8_12
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• Blended Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction
  Case Studies on Blended Learning in Higher Education Design Development and Delivery 2025 DOI: 10.1007/9789819607228_1
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• Blended Learning in Higher Education: An Introduction
  2025 DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-0722-8_1
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• Editorial: Reflections on the Increasing Role of TEL in Learning for Development
  Journal of Learning for Development 2025 DOI: 10.56059/jl4d.v12i1.1981
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