How technology, culture, learning and policy intersect within research and practice in digital education.

Events

News

Recording available: Professor Jen Ross's Inaugural Lecture

The recording of Jen Ross's Inaugural Lecture can now be streamed.

Jen Ross' Inaugural Lecture: What does it take to make new digital futures for education?

Join us for Jen Ross' inaugural lecture on the digital futures of education.

New project: Developing a Digital Leadership Toolkit for School Leaders in The Gambia

A new project developing a Gambian School Digital Leadership (GSDL) Toolkit.

Updates on Interdisciplinary Education research

Centre colleague Dr David Overend shares updates on the work he's been undertaking with colleagues on the MA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Futures at EFI on a model of Interdisciplinary Education.

Recording available: The Digital Backlash in Education: Panic, Politics, or Pedagogy?

Discussing the shift to backlash in debates about digital technologies in education.

Frankencitations: Ben Williamson speaks to Inside Higher Ed and Science News Explore

Ben Williamson speaks to media about the proliferation of fake, AI-generated citations in academic publishing. 

About
The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Moray House School of Education and Sport at The University of Edinburgh. We research, teach and conduct knowledge exchange in areas relating to digital education including policy, practice, artificial intelligence and education futures.
Engagement
We work with many partner universities as well as policymakers, the cultural heritage sector, schools and other public and private sector organisations. Our partners value us for our critical approach to learning, teaching and technology in formal and informal education, and for the ways in which we combine our research with world-leading practice in digital education.