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Arvind Ragunathan

Head of Programme Design & Delivery, Kalvium

Leads programme design and delivery at Kalvium. Sits at the intersection of three things: the research literature on how people learn, the design decisions that translate that research into a live programme, and the daily operational evidence of whether those decisions actually work. Writes about the cognitive science of learning and how it shows up in programme design, plus reflective pieces drawn from the daily work of running a cohort.

7 posts

B.Tech

The games, quizzes, and apps Kalvium students built in Year 1: what the project list shows

Nine named Year 1 projects from Kalvium's testimonials page: games, MERN apps, a campus app, an AI travel planner. What the range tells you about the Semester 1-2 full-stack and Capstone design.

B.Tech

Why Kalvium's most employable skills are deliberately kept out of your exams

Mastery at Kalvium is verified via codebases, deployments, and system artifacts, not written tests. Here is the design reasoning, and what the research on authentic assessment actually says about why.

B.Tech

What a Kalvium student builds in four years: a year-by-year walkthrough

From front-end web development in Semester 1 to a Final Capstone in Year 4: the actual build arc across four years, grounded in the curriculum, not the brochure.

B.Tech

Learning how to learn for real engineering, not for exams

The study habits that got you through exams are close to useless for getting good at engineering. Here's what the research actually says about learning that lasts, and how to do it.

For Parents

The teenage brain, minus the panic: what changes from 17 to 22, and what a good programme does about it

The alarmist version of teenage-brain science tells you nothing useful. Here's the calmer, more accurate reading of what changes between 17 and 22, and what a programme should actually do about it.

B.Tech

Why most engineering programmes don't produce engineers: what the learning science actually says works

Five research findings on complex-skill acquisition that most B.Tech programmes ignore, and what a programme looks like when it's designed against the evidence instead.

B.Tech

The forgetting curve is 140 years old. Most engineering programmes act like it doesn't exist.

In 1885, Hermann Ebbinghaus showed that we forget most of what we learn within days unless something specific is done. A note on what the research says, and what changed when we designed against it.