Santanu Vasant is an Independent Higher Education Consultant. Santanu has over 20 years of experience in higher education in a variety of Educational Development Senior Management roles, working in a number of London Universities. Since December 2020 Santanu is the creator and host of the TalkingHE Podcast.
He has a BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology and Design, a PGCE in Secondary ICT from Brunel University London and a Masters’ in Education from UCL. He is a Principal Fellow of AdvanceHE and a qualified AgilePM® Practitioner.
His research interest is in the field of designing physical and virtual learning spaces. He has written book chapters on the use of PebblePad e-Portfolios for Business Education in Pebblegogy, 2011, Bring Your Own Device – policy and practice in higher education in Smart Learning (2015) and Academics’ Understanding of Learning Spaces: Attitudes, Practices and Outcomes Explored through the Use of Social Media in Social Media in Higher Education: Case Studies, Reflections and Analysis (2019), Developing praxis through active blended learning and authentic assessment in Organisation Studies and Human Resource Management: An Educator’s Handbook (2021) and Learning Design in Higher Education: Building Communities of Practice in Measurement Methodologies to Assess the Effectiveness of Global Online Learning.
A member of the International Consortium for Educational Development