Navin Dutta

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About Navin Dutta

Navin Dutta leads all the strategic and business development activities at Edvanta; where his focus area is mainly higher education governance, enabling adoption of technology in learning delivery, learning design strategy, learning asset management and emerging trends. He believes that a learner focused, correctly manifested data driven approach to pedagogy can not only personalise the student experience, but could be the next big innovation which will be leveraged in all kinds of learning models. He has over 17 years of experience in the online learning domain and has conceptualized & helped architect several solutions in his career & has been instrumental in driving strategy and execution of technology enabled education in the higher education and corporate learning sphere. Especially, in determining how an intelligent mix of emerging trends and cutting edge technology impact institutional strategic planning towards effective learning delivery and governance for execution in order to efficiently serve knowledge workers, end users with large and complex consumption of IT enabled education. Such organizations include Universities in Higher Ed, startups, Corporate setups, Education Services Industry, product based companies, R&D organizations, public sector organizations as well as secondary and higher education institutions. Some of the names he has worked with include - Intel, Wolters Kluwer, Vodafone, Pearson, Ministry of Education - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Indian School of Business, HCL, GEMS education, Ujjivan Microfinance, Empower, HCL Healthcare, AIIMS and more."My cross industry exposure has led me to believe that technology, with effective governance can be chiseled to be an efficient tool to improve the overall academic excellence leading to a significant organizational efficiency and value to our society; and I would like to contribute to it in whichever way possible."