Santosh PandaSantosh Panda is a Professor of Distance Education and Director at the Staff Training and Research Institute, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Besides PhD, he has a Certificate in EdTV from the BBC, UK, and Certificat in Online Teaching from the University of Maryland, USA. Started university teaching in 1984 at Kurukshetra University, and till date has 37 years of teaching, research and administrative experience at universities. In the past, he has been: Chairperson, National Council for Teacher Education, a statutory national regulator of Government of India; Senior Fulbright Scholar, the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA; Director, the Association of Indian Universities (AIU), Delhi; Director, Centre for Flexible & Distance Learning, the University of South Pacific, Fiji; Founding Director, Inter-University Consortium for ICT, IGNOU; 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), and Adjunct Professor at University of Maryland (USA). Dr Panda has presented keynotes, conference papers, pre-conference workshops, and conducted workshops in above 25 countries, and convocation address at 5 universities. He has published 48 papers in refereed journals internationally, 44 book chapters, 19 books, and 34 conference papers. His latest books include: Technology-Enabled Learning: policy, pedagogy and practice (Vancouver: The Commonwealth of Learning, 2020), Planning & Management in Distance Education (London: Routledge, 2017), Economics of Distance & Online Learning (New York: Routledge, 2008). Read More Read Less