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Biology, data science and the making of precision education

Generating insights into the ways biological and data sciences are becoming new sources of knowledge in technological societies.

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Centre for Early Mathematics Learning

Exploring the cognitive, emotional, social, and environmental factors influencing the development of children’s maths skills.

Practitioner networks and digital inclusion for higher education in sub-Saharan Africa

Creating practitioner networks and digital capacity building for universities in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Data Education in Schools

Developing data literacy and data citizenship skills to learners ages 3-18 years old

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Annual report 2023

Find out about our research community, projects, publications and work with the Edinburgh Futures Institute in 2022-2023

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MSc Digital Education

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

News

4 Dec 2024	Insight Prize to Meenakshi Mani	Congratulations to PhD student Meenakshi Mani on winning the Insight Prize of the Autumn '24 issue for her article Indian EdTech's Double-Edged AI Sword!
3 Dec 2024	Announcement: Centre Principles for a Socially Responsible Digital Education	We are thrilled to officially announce our Principles for Socially Responsible Digital Education.
3 Dec 2024	Exploring the AI Jungle: video playlist release	The Data Education in Schools team announce the release of a video playlist on Exploring the AI Jungle, a picturebook and teachers' guide explaining how AI systems work and suggesting ways to use GenAI in schools.
2 Dec 2024	New Project announcement: AI in Secondary Schools	The Data Education in Schools team are working with teachers and partner organisations in Scotland to create resources to support key critical AI literacy skills in secondary schools.
27 Nov 2024	New Project announcement: Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101)	We are delighted to announce that Centre colleagues Serdar Abaci and Jen Ross are partners to the Una Europa Seed Funding project “Artificial Intelligence & Humanities (101): Developing a Humanities Syllabus for AI & the Digital at Una Europa”.
26 Nov 2024	Centre report 2024	We're delighted to share our annual report covering our work during 2023-2024, featuring our six new principles for socially responsible Digital Education.

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The Centre for Research in Digital Education is based in the Moray House School of Education and Sport at the University of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Futures Institute, 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.

Research across the Centre