Diana Laurillard is a professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at University College London (UCL), Institute of Education. She was previously Head of the e-Learning Strategy Unit at the Department for Education and Skills. She has also served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor for learning technologies and teaching at The Open University, and on the Visiting Committee on IT at Harvard University.

She is currently researching MOOCs for professional education in challenging contexts, learning design, and digital games for dyscalculia. Latest projects include: The Transformational Potential of MOOCs in the Centre for Global HE at UCL-IOE; the project on Future Education in the RELIEF Centre at UCL-IGP.

Her recent book: Teaching as a Design Science, Routledge.