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

Events

Enacting and sharing digital practices in the early years

Seminar
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Join us for Professor Susan Edwards' seminar on enacting and sharing children's digital practices. The seminar provides an overview of a large Australian Research Council Linkage Project based on the Early Childhood Australia Statement on Young Children and Digital Technologies.

News

Learning Curves: Autumn 2024 Edinburgh Futures Institute Events

The Edinburgh Futures Institute autumn 2024 events season is starting soon: Learning Curves features 20 live events, free and open to all, examining the future of education. Centre colleagues led on the development of several of the events.

New project: AI for Teaching Innovation

The new project "AI for Teaching Innovation" supports and enables creative teaching innovation through generative AI. It's part of a partnership the AI adoption programme of work, and a partnership between the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and the Moray House School of Education and Sport.

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.

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.