Dr Eileen Kennedy
Eileen Kennedy is a Principal Research Fellow at UCL Knowledge Lab, where she leads the MA in Education and Technology. Eileen researches learning design for online and blended higher education and professional development, including caring approaches to online pedagogy.
With the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) and PROCOL Lebanon, Eileen is researching ways to realise the transformative potential of scaling up digital learning. The findings of the research have led to the development of a new approach to collaborative learning for professionals conceptualised as a CoMOOC or Co-designed Massive Open Online Collaboration. CoMOOCs democratise knowledge production by supporting professionals to build community knowledge together to tackle global challenges. Eileen is the co-author of Online Learning Futures (Bloomsbury). Eileen Kennedy is a Principal Research Fellow on CGHE Project 2, ‘Realising the potential of digital technology for scaling up higher education’.
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
- CGHE Annual Conference 2022 – Higher education knowledge in a plural world
- CGHE 2020 Annual Conference webinar: Academic work and careers online and offline
- A MOOC Value Creation Methodology
- Investigating the transformative potential of MOOCs for professional development on the large scale
Select publications
- Blended Learning in Teacher Education & Training: Findings from Research & Practice, European Schoolnet, 2021.
- 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, 2019 - The potential of MOOCs for large-scale teacher professional development in contexts of mass displacement
London Review of Education, 2019 - Using technology to develop teachers as designers of TEL: Evaluating the learning designer
British Journal of Educational Technology, 2018 - Digital Education and the Connected Curriculum: Towards a Connected Learning Environment
Developing the Higher Education Curriculum: Research-Based Education in Practice, UCL Press 2017 - ‘Not the same person anymore’: groupwork, identity and social learning online
Distance Education, 1-14, 2017