Professor Diana Laurillard
Diana Laurillard leads CGHE Project 2, ‘Realising the potential of digital technology for scaling up higher education’. Diana is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies, UCL Knowledge Lab. Formerly Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at Department for Education and Skills (2002-5); Pro-Vice Chancellor for learning technologies at the Open University (1995-2002). Recent book: Teaching as a Design Science, Routledge. Researching MOOCs, learning design, and digital games for dyscalculia.
Her research includes large-scale online communities of teacher-designers, and the use of specialised digital course design tools to enable teachers to create and share new pedagogies for using learning technology. She is currently running two MOOCs on teacher development in digital course design.
CGHE publications
CGHE research projects
Past Events
- CGHE Annual Conference 2024 – The Future of Higher Education
- ‘Online Learning Futures’ Book Launch and Discussion
- CGHE Annual Conference 2023 – From Higher to Tertiary: Democratising Post-School Education
- Signals in the storm: Higher education, digital communication and geo-politics – CGHE’s 300th seminar/webinar
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE Annual Conference 2021: Remaking higher education for a more equal world
- What is ‘higher education studies’ and what are its uses? A panel session
- CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Academic work and careers online and offline
- Teacher professional development at scale in the Global South
- A MOOC Value Creation Methodology
- Investigating the transformative potential of MOOCs for professional development on the large scale
Select publications
- Current Understanding, Support Systems, and Technology-led Interventions for Specific Learning Difficulties
Government Office for Science, October 2020 - MOOCs and professional development: the global potential of online collaboration
In C. Callender, W. Locke, S. Marginson (Eds.), Changing Higher Education for a Changing World, 2020. London: Bloomsbury. - The role of higher education in upscaling global professional development through open, online collaboration. In C. Callender, W. Locke, & S. Marginson (Eds.), The Future of Higher Education.
London: Bloomsbury. 2019 - Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). In M. David & M. Amey (Eds.), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Higher Education.
Thousand Oaks, CA, USA: SAGE Publications Inc. 2019 - Perspectives to Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching in Mathematical Learning Difficulties. In A. Fritz, V. Haase, & P. Räsänen (Eds.), International Handbook of Mathematical Learning Difficulties.
Cham: Springer. 2019 - A Co-design Methodology for Blended Teacher Professional Development in Contexts of Mass Displacement.
NORRAG Special Issue 02. Data Collection and Evidence Building to Support Education in Emergencies, 63-65. 2019. - The potential of MOOCs for large-scale teacher professional development in contexts of mass displacement
London Review of Education, 17 (2): 141–158. 2019. - Teaching as a Design Science: Teachers building, testing and sharing pedagogic ideas. In Joke Voogt, Gerald Knezek, Rhonda Christensen and Kwok-Wing Lai (eds), Springer International Handbooks of Education. Handbook of Information Technology in Primary and Secondary Education.
Springer, New York. 2018. - Using technology to develop teachers as designers of TEL: evaluating the Learning Designer. British Journal of Educational Technology
British Journal of Educational Technology. 49(6), 1044 –1058. 2018.
