Professor Diana Laurillard

London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education.
Evolving a Vision for Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)
Keynote 3: Professor
Diana Laurillard
Abstract
Diana Laurillard is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at
the London Knowledge Lab. Her main role is to lead research on technology-enhanced
learning, and to build productive collaborative projects between the Lab,
educators, the digital media industry, and policy-makers. She is on the
Executive of the EU Network of Excellence for Technology-Enhanced Learning
(Kaleidoscope). Her work focuses on theory-based design of learning and
teaching methods and resources, learners’ conceptions and misconceptions,
flexible learning activity design tools for teachers, and cost-benefit
modeling for the introduction of ICT in education. Previously she was
at the Department for Education and Skills, where she developed a cross-sector
e-learning strategy, Harnessing Technology: Transforming Learning and
Children’s Services, published in March 2005. From 1995 to 2002,
she held two terms of office as PVC at the Open University, with responsibility
for developing the appropriate use of learning technologies. Her most
widely cited publication is Rethinking University Teaching (Routledge
Falmer, 2nd edition 2002).
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