Professor Lisa Harris
Director of Digital Learning
L.J.Harris@exeter.ac.uk
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Overview
Lisa joined the University of Exeter in October 2017 as Director of Digital Learning. She is also an Education Incubator Fellow and a FutureLearn Fellow. She runs the Building Your Career in Tomorrow’s Workplace FutureLearn MOOC and modules in Digital Business (#BEMM129) and Digital Technologies and the Future of Work (#BEM2034).
Lisa has led the development and implementation of innovative degree programmes in three UK Universities, utilising cross-faculty expertise supported by industry projects and online learning pedagogies. She has had input at a senior level to research, education and enterprise agendas: inspiring innovative projects to develop new educational programmes, multi-disciplinary communities of practice and industry partnerships. She achieved Higher Education Academy Principal Fellowship (PFHEA) in 2017.
Lisa was a Director of the Web Science Institute and a Director of the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training at the University of Southampton. She developed and ran an MSc in Digital Marketing there in 2009, and the UK’s first e-commerce degree programme at Brunel University in 1999.
Lisa has been a contributor to a series of practical online marketing workshops for SMEs since 2007 under the title “Punch Above Your Weight”, and to Digital Literacy and Digital Marketing workshops for university staff and students. Accredited online MBA Tutor at the University of Liverpool.
Lisa has a PhD in the management of technological change in the banking industry from Brunel University, a MBA from Oxford Brookes University and a post-graduate diploma from the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Lisa is a published author of many books and academic articles in both ‘old’ and ‘new’ media.
Specialties: digital literacies, MOOCs, online learning, blended learning, web science
Qualifications
- ACIB
- MBA
- MCIM
- PhD
- PFHEA
Links
Research
Research interests
- Integrating digital literacies into the curriculum
- A socio-technical model of learning in HE
- MOOCs as catalysts for change in HE
- Social media marketing in the charity sector
- The role of digital media in cultural heritage
Research projects
Current PhD supervision:
- A socio-technical model of learning in HE
- MOOCs as catalysts for change in HE
- The role of digital media in cultural heritage
Publications
Books
Journal articles
Conferences
External Engagement and Impact
Awards and Honours
- JISC’s Influencers list of the “Top 50 HE Professionals on Social Media”
- Blackboard and VLE award for excellent use of Virtual Learning Environments, University of Southampton
- FutureLearn Inspiration Award with Learner Simon Fogg for our MOOC Activities
- SUSU Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award, University of Southampton
- Vice Chancellor’s Team Award for Digital Literacies, University of Southampton
- Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Award, Brunel University
External positions
- Reviewer, NTFS
- FutureLearn Fellow
Invited lectures
- Keynote for British Council / Microsoft Deep Learning Event, Engaging Students through Social Learning: inspiring curriculum innovation in HE, Kuala Lumpur
- Integrating Deep Learning Skills into the Curriculum Workshop for British Council / Microsoft Deep Learning Event, Kuala Lumpur
- Social Media for Education and Employability, Winchester College Studium, Winchester
- Full list of Slideshare Presentations
Teaching
Lisa has led the development and implementation of innovative degree programmes in three UK Universities, utilising cross-faculty expertise supported by industry projects and online learning technologies.In 2018 she developed the Building Your Career in the Workplace of the Future FutureLearn MOOC and new modules in Digital Business (#BEMM129) and Digital Technologies and the Future of Work (#BEM2034) as an Education Incubator Fellow.
In 2013 she helped to develop the first MOOC in Web Science and she was Lead Educator for the Digital Marketing, Power of Social Media and Learning in the Network Age FutureLearn MOOCs.
Lisa has also contributed to a major project titled Students as Creators and Change Agents, a partnership between staff and students to develop a BSc in Business Management with direct student input to programme structure, content and delivery. She has developed and run prize winning inter-disciplinary Curriculum Innovation modules in Digital Literacies and Online Social Networks. She set up the University of Southampton’s Student Digital Champions Programme in 2012.
In 2018/9 she developed the Building Your Career in Tomorrow’s Workplace FutureLearn MOOC and new modules in Digital Business (#BEMM129) and Digital Technologies and the Future of Work (#BEM2034).
Modules
2023/24
- BEM2034 - Digital Technologies and the Future of Work
- BEP2120 - Digital Technologies and the Future of Work