Biography

Shesha Kanta Pangeni, PhD is an Associate Professor and Acting Dean at the School of Education, Kathmandu University. He also served as Head of Department at the Department of Educational Leadership. He also worked as IT/Exam coordinator at the School in the past. He has been professionally involved in the field of education for more than two decades in Nepal.

Internationally, he worked as a guest researcher at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway for a year. His Ph.D. project was fully funded by The Norwegian Program for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED) and the PhD project was related to web technology in higher education. His research interests include Educational Leadership, Mathematics Education, Web Technologies in Higher Education, Online and Distance Learning, Learning Management System and ICT in Education.

He has presented many international conference papers in the countries across Asia, Europe, and America. His past journal articles and conference papers were focused on ICT in Education, Online and Distance Education, Digital Leadership, Online Learning Culture, and e-Research Methods. He has proven experience in training facilitation on LMS use, and a number of professionals from reputed organizations in Nepal such as TU, KU, NOU, MPU, CTEVT, TITI, CEHRD, NEB, different colleges, and schools, have been trained by Dr. Pangeni. 

The development partners of Nepal, like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, have recognized him as a national expert for ICT in education. At KU, he is also PI of a project, "Digitization and Preservation of Library Resources (DPLR)" (2024-2027). This project is funded by e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), the Republic of Korea through fund management of the Asian Development Bank. Read more about the project.