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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.
Jen Ross chairs student-led hustings ahead of the 2026 Holyrood elections

Centre co-director Professor Jen Ross chaired The Future Speaks, a hustings event organised by James Gillespie's High School and the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

New project: Digital Prioritarianism: Mobilities, Marginalisation, and Sustainable Futures

Conceptualising and interrogating instances of digital prioritarianism.
We have joined Norway’s £28mill government-funded programme for AI and Learning

We will be an academic partner to Norway's AI Learn research centre, contributing to knowledge sharing with a focus on governance and ethics around the use of AI in education.

AI is Inventing Academic Articles - Dr Williamson speaks to The Observer

Ben Williamson speaks to The Observer about the appearance and multiplication of AI-hallucinated citations in academic publishing.
CFP: IDC 2026 Workshop "Data Vis Activities for Children"

Call for Paper for the 22 June morning session of the Interaction Design and Children 25th Conference
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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.
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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.