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

Events

News

New project: Grasping Data. Empowering young children to understand and benefit from their personal data

A new Children and Technology project has been announced among the thirty-six successful projects that will share £32.4m from the UKRI’s cross-research council responsive mode round 1 pilot scheme, designed to stimulate exciting new interdisciplinary research.

Project Update: Ugandan Digital Education Practitioners

Three Ugandan Digital Education practitioners share with Edinburgh Global how their participation in the Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program and the MSc in Digital Education shaped their work at their home institutions.

Translational Data And AI Ethics Postgraduate Course (Edinburgh Futures Institute)

James Garthford, Benedetta Catanzariti, and Meenakshi Mani shared their experience designing and teaching this intensive course at the intersection of social science and computer science.

Research Update: Postdigital Learning Spaces

James Lamb, Lecturer in Digital Education, and colleagues participated in the 2024 Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences, where they discussed three chapters from "Postdigital Learning Spaces: Towards Convivial, Equitable and Sustainable Spaces for Learning", a new book edited by James Lamb and Lucila Carvalho and published by Springer.

Visiting researcher: Dr Jillianne Code

In September, the Centre is welcoming a visiting scholar: Dr Jillianne Code, director of the ALIVE Research Lab at the University of British Columbia in Canada.

Geneva Human Rights Dialogue: Janja Komljenovic invited to UNESCO policy event

Dr Janja Komljenovic was invited as an expert to the Geneva Human Rights Dialogue on the Right to Education, where she spoke on the impact of digitalisation on this universal human right.

About
The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh, and conducts research, knowledge exchange and consultancy in key areas including digital education pedagogy and policy, open education, children and technology, learning analytics and museum learning.
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.