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- Principal Research Fellow
- IOE - Culture, Communication & Media
- UCL Institute of Education


My research centres on scaling up practice in online and blended learning, which involves designing and evaluating MOOCs, and finding ways of using scaled up online learning to widen access to higher education where it is needed, for example in the context of large scale displacement of people. To facilitate the scaling up of quality online learning, I develop digital solutions to teaching problems such as learning design tools (with Diana Laurillard) through Design Based Research. I research the experience of learning and teaching online, and am currently involved in an investigation into how we learn on a MOOC.
I contribute to the MA in Education and Technology and I also design and teach on MOOCs, short courses and workshops in blended and online learning, including:
Get Interactive: Practical Teaching with Technology (Coursera)
Community Based Research: Getting Started (FutureLearn/Edraak)
Transforming Education in Challenging Environments (FutureLearn)
Educators for Change (Edraak)
Teaching Online: Be Ready Now! (Edraak)
Blended and Online Learning Design (FutureLearn)
Sustainable Energy Access for Communities (FutureLearn/Edraak)