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

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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. 

Media coverage: Ben Williamson reflects on Springer Nature retracted paper on ChatGPT in education

Ben Williamson reflects on the retraction of a paper claiming benefits of using ChatGPT in education, which was published just two and a half years after the release of ChatGPT in November 2022.

Jasmeen Kanwal for The Guardian: Scottish politics on immigration, disinformation and the need for "prebunking" education

A piece exploring the recent shift in Scottish political discourse on immigration and arguing for the need for "prebunking" education.

Updates from the Mastercard Foundation African Scholars Programme Summer School

Alice Dias Lopes, Pete Evans, and Michael Gallagher share insights on the summer school that took place in Accra, Ghana, and on the Centre's position with regard to championing sustainable digital education in the Global South.

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.