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Keeping the Teacher in the Loop: AI technologies for supporting exploratory learning environments

Dr Kobi Gal, University of Edinburgh

Our 2019 annual report  is now out! 

Data Justice Week

We're delighted to be hosting a week long series of events bringing together colleagues from across the university and leading researchers from the UK and Europe.  Data Justice Week will explore crucial issues of bias, inequality, and injustice, increasingly amplified by the data-intensive technologies now embedded in our social institutions.

Research stay reflections

by US-UK Fulbright visiting scholar, Shana Ferguson

“Fake news!” a student at Leith Academy shouts as we examine an example of pro-Brexit propaganda in a Digital Literacy class. It would appear that the label “fake news” is as overused in the UK as it is in the US.

Global Academy EFI Fellowship

Jeremy Knox

by Professor Lydia Plowman

CRDE Research Stay Write Up

Mitchell Peters, Open University of Catalonia (Barecelona)

Research Stay Purpose

Feedback from Computer Science Education week

Computer Science Education week events took place at Moray House School of Education last week, 3rd-9th December.  

Policy networks, performance metrics, and market-making: charting the expanding data infrastructure of higher education

This seminar was held on 12th October 2018 at Moray House School of Education.  Watch Ben's seminar via Media Hopper

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'Teach Computing Science: A Guide for Early Years and Primary Practitioners' delivered across Scotland

Primary school teachers across Scotland will be getting a free printed copy of Teach Computing Science: A Guide for Early Years and Primary Practitioners this week. It's a guide to teaching the new Computing Education aspects of the Technologies curriculum in Curriculum for Excellence to help teachers who need an in depth introduction to the new expectations and outcomes.